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Diagnostic Tests in English for Primary School Children

Dr. (Mrs.) N. L. N. Jayanthi
M.A., M.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. (English), Ph.D. (Education)

Abstract

In the present study, an attempt has been made to construct and validate diagnostic tools to identify the learning difficulties in English of Primary school children, with respect to reading, writing and spelling difficulties. Though there are many tests to identify students with learning difficulties in English in the Western world, there are no diagnostic tests available in the Indian context to identify the learning difficulties of primary school children in English. Hence, the three diagnostic tests-RDDT, WDDT, and SDDT have been constructed , validated and administered to the primary school children of Tamilnadu to identify the learning difficulties in English .

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Introduction

In the present study, an attempt has been made to construct and validate diagnostic tools to identify the learning difficulties in English of Primary school children, with respect to reading, writing and spelling difficulties. Though there are many tests to identify students with learning difficulties in English in the Western world -like Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities(Kirk, McCarthy, and Kirth, 1968), Test of Language e Diagnostic Revised(Gray and Robinson), 1967), Wood Cock Reading Mastery Tests(1973), Test of Written Language (Hammill and Larsen, 1983), The Written Expression Test(Johnson,1988), and the Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Essential Skills(Brigance, 1979). These tests, being developed in foreign context , pose problems to Indian students, whose society, culture and needs are totally different. And, as there are no diagnostic tests in the Indian context to identify the students with reading, writing and spelling difficulties in English, the researcher developed the following diagnostic for conducting the present study.

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Dr. (Mrs.) N. L. N. Jayanthi
M.A., M.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. (English), Ph.D. (Education)
Associate Professor
Department of Education
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar 608002
Tamilnadu
India
jayanthinln@yahoo.com
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