Wurr, A., & Theurer, J., & Kim, K. (2009). Retrospective miscue analysis with proficient adult ESL readers. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52(4), 324-333.
Fascinating set of three case studies where three young adults whose first language was not English engaged in Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA) sessions. The three adults read in English with the three researchers, retold what they had read, then listened to tapes of their reading and discussed the miscues and their own reading strategies and processes.
In all three cases, the readers gained insights into themselves as readers and the reading process in general. I found the most amazing of the three case studies to be “Mario’s.” Mario had conceptualized reading in English and reading in Spanish as two different processes. His insights about reading in two languages were profound, mirroring those of literacy theorists such as Kenneth Goodman. Mario has new understandings about literacy that have required whole research agendas to be done. I find RMA a truly fascinating tool, with potential to reveal much about readers and reading.
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