A Developmental Process of Constructing Meaning: A Reading Miscue Analysis of a Reader

The purpose of this present study is to diagnose a reader's reading ability by means of oral reading miscue analysis. The researcher recorded the whole process and then analyzed the results by means of the reading miscues inventory (Goodman, Watson, and Burke, 1987). From the analysis of reading miscue types, four categories of miscues are found in the subject: Omission, insertion, substitution, and regression. From the reading interview responses, the subject tended to utilize the graphophonic cueing information and guess meanings from the context in a reading process. Finally, the researcher suggests that teachers guide students to master bottom-up and top-down strategies and think-aloud strategy to help students improve their reading comprehension.