Miscue Analysis Revisited

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Miscue Analysis Revisited

• Ann Kelly
• Deb Symes

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Session activities

• Discuss an example
• Consider the rationale for the use of MA
• Trial the process
• Review the results
• Consider other applications
• Discuss strengths and limitations of the strategy

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Actual vs. read text

• Now John Cameron lived alone ? apart from his
  household robot. And his life certainly did run
  smoothly. Some people changed their robots
  programme every day and left it in the Transit
  position, that is, ready to receive orders. But
  not John.
• He was a rigid man who hated change. He wanted
  every day to be the same as the one before. So
  HIS robot was programmed once and for all.

• Now John Cameron lived alone ? apart from his
  household robot. And his life certainly did run
  smoothly. Some people changed their robots
  performance every day and left it in the
  Transit position, that is, reading to receive
  orders. But not John.
• He was a rigid man who hadnt changed. He wanted
  every day to be the same as the one before. So
  HIS robot was programmed once and for all.

J. Carew (2002). Knockouts
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Rationale for miscue analysis

• Miscue analysis is a tool for looking closely at
  the types of reading strategies a reader uses.
  The kinds of miscues (incorrect guesses) a reader
  makes when reading from a text will give the
  listener clues about how familiar or unfamiliar
  the reader finds the content matter, and how easy
  or difficult they find the text to read.
• (Miscue analysis retrieved 8 August 2009 from
• http//rwp.excellencegateway.org.uk/readwriteplus/
  bank/Miscue20Analysis.pdf)

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Goodmans (1969) principles underpinning miscue
analysis

• Reading is based on 3 cueing systems
• grapho/phonic system of letter-sound
  relationships
• syntactic syntax (grammar) system
• semantic meaning system

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Practice text The Yellow Wallpaper

There is a lovely garden! I never saw such a
garden! It is large and shady with paths and
seats. There were greenhouses, but they are
all broken now. The place has been empty for
years. There is something strange about it I
can feel it. I even said so to John one moonlit
evening, but he said what I felt was draught,
and shut the window.
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Applications of miscue analysis

• Retrospective miscue analysis with proficient
  adult ESL readers
• We found RMA discussions changed all of the
  readers perceptions of themselves they
  benefitted from a more informed view of the
  reading process. In the process of discovering
  what real reading was, they discovered themselves
  as readers.
• (Wurr, Theurer Kim, 2009).

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Applications of miscue analysis

• Orally reading written texts for the purpose of
  checking for
• meaning
• incorrect spelling
• odd sentence structure
• incorrect or no punctuation