With the rise of the engagement perspective on reading, the concept of engagement has been increasingly applied in reading instruction and research without seriously questioning its underlying assumptions. By probing into the intellectual roots of the engagement perspective including Dewey's notion of reflective thinking, and Freire's critical…

Suggests that the effects of teachers giving feedback to students during oral reading can be quite significant and that such feedback should be carefully analyzed for perceived meaning and purpose as well as for results. (TJ)

Analysis of the on-line reading performance of reading-disabled and nonhandicapped Chinese elementary school students revealed that all readers used various language cues suggesting a universal aspect of reading process, although disabled readers were unable to use spoken speech to understand seemingly disjointed Chinese characters or to decipher…

This study examined the effects of repeated reading using above grade level narrative passages on: (a) reading rate as measured in words per minute (wpm) and (b) reading miscues. A single group, pretest-posttest design was used to measure the treatment effects. The study group consisted of 11, sixth grade African-American students with learning…

Reading development is said to progress in a series of developmental skills and stages that need to be acquired by emerging young readers. The literature on Greek braille reading and its development found that print readers opt for the same text decoding strategy even at the initial stages of development. This article explores the development of…

As a special education teacher, locating effective techniques for improving and tracking her students' reading progress became an ongoing task. During the author's first year in that role, she realized immediately that finding an effective approach for improving reading was crucial for her students. A professor introduced her peers and her to…

Miscue analysis has been used by teachers and reading specialists for more than 30 years. Its purpose is to reveal strengths and weaknesses in how children process text and thereby inform instruction for individual learners. But is it still a useful approach? The authors assert that miscue analysis can indeed be a useful tool, though not for all…

A study examined the revision strategies of basic writers. Subjects, one female from Guyana, one from Belize, and one African-American student from New York, were identified as "basic writers" based on performance on minimum competency writing tests. Subjects had their think-aloud protocols recorded as they read and revised a text.…

Concludes that a higher incidence of oral reading errors is associated with close proximity to unknown words. (RB)

Concludes that self-correction is a positive indicator that the reader is comprehending. (RB)

Describes a means of diagnozing the reading miscues of elementary level readers. (RB)

Reports on a study of 23 teachers who received training in miscue analysis to discover whether or not positive evaluations of students' reading abilities might increase as a result of miscue analysis training. Evidence indicates that such training does help teachers to be sensitive to students' strengths as well as to their weaknesses. (TJ)

Suggests ways to help students avoid miscues caused by eye dialects in their reading. (DD)

Offers suggestions for implementing psycholinguistic methods in the classroom. (MKM)

Discusses applications of recent work in psycholinguistics in classrooms and in teacher education. (AA)