Diagnosis, Treatment, and Assessment

[Iranian English Language Professors]

Diagnosis, Treatment, and Assessment

A principled approach to language teaching encourages the language
teacher to engage in a carefully crafted process of diagnosis,
treatment, and assessment. It enables us initially to account for
communicative and situational needs anticipated among designated
learners, and to diagnose appropriate curricular treatment for those
specific learners in their distinctive context and for their
particular goals. It helps us then to devise effective pedagogical
objectives which have taken into account all the contextual variables
in a classroom. A sound, comprehensive approach underlies the creation
of a set of learning experiences that are appropriate, given specific
contexts and purposes, for realizing established objectives. It
enables teachers to assess what went right and what went wrong in a
lesson, that is, to systematically evaluate the accomplishment of
curricular objectives. And it assists them in revising activities,
lessons, materials, and curricula.