MISCUE ANALYSIS OF NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS

Abstract

Our investigation involves an analysis of the miscues made by both native speakers and non-native speakers of English while reading aloud in English. The results of our miscue analysis support there being one common underlying reading process in both first and second languages involving the active construction of meaning through the application of both top-down and bottom-up strategies. Language proficiency was found to influence the degree to which the different strategies were applied.