Miscue Analysis: A Comparative Study of Two Groups of Pupils in a Secondary School
This study made use of Miscue Analysis as a psycholinguistic approach to investigate the reading strategies of a group of English as a Second Language pupils from the National-Type Primary Schools and National Primary Schools who are currently in Sekolah Menengah Bandar Baru Seri Petaling in Ku...
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| Language: | English English |
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1995
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8920/1/FPP_1995_9_A.pdf |
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| Summary: | This study made use of Miscue Analysis as a
psycholinguistic approach to investigate the reading
strategies of a group of English as a Second Language
pupils from the National-Type Primary Schools and
National Primary Schools who are currently in Sekolah
Menengah Bandar Baru Seri Petaling in Kuala Lumpur. The
Reading Miscue Inventory by Yetta Goodman and Burke
(1972) was modified for data collection in this study.
The main question addressed here is whether the
National-Type Primary and the National Primary pupils
make the same miscues in oral reading and if they do,to what extent do these miscues commensurate with their
comprehension of the text as revealed in their
retelling scores.
The findings show that both the National-Type
Primary (UTP) and the National Primary (NP) pupils
primarily made miscues in this order; substitutions,
omissions and insertions. The NTP pupils made more
miscues than the NP pupils. Both groups of pupils
relied heavily on graphophonemic cues when they fail to
break a code with the syntactic and semantic cues.
Their omissions of inflected plural and past tense
endings showed that they were conscious of word-economy
in processing text. However the NTP pupils were less
efficient than the NP pupils in the use of reading
strategies and were therefore weaker readers resulting
in poorer comprehension. Age had a negative effect on
the NTP pupils. |
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