Functional requirements analysis for developing English language diagnostic tool

The objective of this research is to analyze the functional requirements for developing a system to monitor students´ problem in learning the English. There are four problem areas in learning English: linguistic, grammatical, cultural and psychological. The system will be developed in order to assist in diagnosing students´ problems in learning English. The methodology used to analyze the functional requirements is focused interview with five investigation steps. The results of the interviews indicate that the successful system must incorporate both grammatical and linguistic structure assessments. The outcome of the research is a Functional Flow Diagram (FFD) which consists of components for test, test result analysis and evaluation of students´ problems in learning English language.