Miscue Analysis Essay

I am exploring, in a group of college students with learning difficulties the following questions: 1) What do these students do when they read? 2) What are their beliefs about reading as a tool for academic success? and 3) What they belief about themselves as readers. These questions are based on the understanding that reading is an active search for meaning that requires studying the relationships between the reader's thought process, language, and sociocultural settings in which both the reader and the text are changed during the process (Goodman, 1996). Reading also requires the reader to select the most productive and necessary language cues that will allow him/her to make sense of the text. Moreover, the reader's selection of syntactic, …show more content…
A miscue is a place in which a reader's observed response (what the reader reads) does not match the expected response (what is printed in the text) (Goodman, Watson, & Burke, 2005). The term miscue is used instead of the term mistake because of the negative connotations associated with the words error and mistake. Thus, in order to observe in these group of students the aforementioned processes, I aim to develop what is called a Miscue Analysis and a Retrospective Miscue Analysis, in which researchers and teachers observe patterns that occur in oral reading and target appropriate strategies to the individual reader. Miscue Analysis allows researchers and teachers to identify reading strategies that the reader is using to make sense of printed text. In a Retrospective Miscue Analysis, the reader examines his/her own miscues and discusses them to become metacognitively aware of what s/he does when s/he reads (Goodman, Watson, & Burke, 2005). Miscue Analysis and Retrospective Miscue Analysis follow a protocol which has been developed through research conducted for more than 40 years which has been based on the work of Kenneth Goodman and his