Toward an integrated Framework for Language Testing and Intervention

Abstract

An integrated framework for language testing and intervention with a paradigm was proposed and illustrated. The proposed framework combines approaches from Error Analysis, Need Analysis and Systems Instruction. The operation of the framework was illustrated based on data derived from a corpus consisting of the transcripts of hundred (100) students from a college in Yola metropolis. The transcripts were analyzed using the COMPFORM-MARKCHART method of error correction. The test served as a pre-intervention language test and the first component of the framework (T?). The result of the analysis was then used to design the ERROR PROFILE of the students based on which a Language Intervention technique (LI) comprising of two sub-components: Language Teaching for Common and Specific Errors [LTCSE], and Language Task for Specific Students [LTSS] was designed. The last component of the framework is a post language intervention test [T?] which was designed to test the efficacy of the language method/approach adopted. The paper concludes with a discussion on the prospects of the framework within the context of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL).