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Retrospective Miscue Analysis with an Adult ESL Kurdish Reader

Nuri, Pashew Majeed
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2448-3970
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439307350

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2015, MEd, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Curriculum and Instruction.
This study aimed to explore the reading beliefs and reading strategies of a Kurdish adult English as a Second Language (ESL) reader. The study was motivated by four research questions that include; what are the reading beliefs an adult Kurdish L2 speaker brings to his reading? What miscues does one adult Kurdish L2 speaker make? What factors caused the reader to make particular miscues? And how does the reader respond to these miscues? The study was a case study that utilized retrospective miscue analysis (RMA) as the research methodology to gather the data necessary to answer the research questions. The study participant was the researcher himself who was an Iraqi Kurdish international Master’s degree student at the University of Cincinnati. The study found that the participant made various types of miscues ranging from substitutions, corrections, omissions, and repetitions. Among the 83 miscues, 14 of them were abandoned corrections. None of the miscues that were abandoned to be corrected resulted in major meaning change in the sentences as it was finally produced by the participant. The participant also used different reading strategies that included sampling, predicting, confirming and/or disconfirming. The factors that caused miscue production included cultural background and his belief system, cross-language grammatical knowledge, word unfamiliarity, and prior knowledge about miscue analysis. This study advances ESL teachers’ and reader’s understanding of how reading process occurs and how readers respond to their miscues.
Holly Johnson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Ting Xiao, Ed.D. (Committee Member)
89 p.
Reading Instruction
Retrospective Miscue Analysis; Micuse Analysis; ESL; Reading Process

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  • Nuri, P. M. (2015). Retrospective Miscue Analysis with an Adult ESL Kurdish Reader [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439307350

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nuri, Pashew. Retrospective Miscue Analysis with an Adult ESL Kurdish Reader. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439307350.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nuri, Pashew. "Retrospective Miscue Analysis with an Adult ESL Kurdish Reader." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439307350

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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