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A DIAGNOSTIC STUDY OF LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND ERRORS MADE BY THE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL Siddaraju K.S.1 & Jayamma H.R.2, Ph. D. 1
Research Scholar, P.G. Department of Education, Bangalore University, Bangalore
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Professor and Chairperson, P.G. Department of Education, Bangalore University,
Bangalore Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com INTRODUCTION Diagnosis means identifying the difficulties and errors done by the students of secondary schools in English language learning. They are intended primarily to ascertain what learning still needs to take place. In language skills testing, one can be reasonably straight forward. One can be fairly confident of one’s ability to create tests that will tell whether someone is particularly weak in say speaking, reading and writing in English language. Diagnostic testing is a lengthy process in comparison to other testing tools. A diagnostic test is a test used to diagnose or reveal an individual’s weakness and strength in a certain course of study (Hughes 2003, p. 50). Diagnostic test is helpful to identify the use of faulty, round about or incorrect procedures, the use of elementary processes where these could have been replaced by advanced processes. Monroe (1965) suggested two major aspects of diagnosis in teaching. They are (1) determination of the extent to which educational objectives is achieved, (2) Identification of factors that may be interfering with the optimum growth of the individual. Diagnosis is an understanding of perfect situation in terms of its causes what brought it about or in terms of what it will cause. Diagnosis is essentially the task of locating more specially those factors which bear more causal relation to the progress of learning of pupils. The essence of educational diagnosis is the identification of some of the use of learning difficulties and some of the potential education educational asserts so that by giving proper attention to these factors more effective learning may result (Satish, 2012). The branches of English Language Development and literacy incorporate reading, pronouncing, writing, speaking and listening. As a result, English language development Copyright © 2017, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies