Determiners In Reading: Miscues On A Few Little Words  

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Goodman, Kenneth S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 1 (1987), page 33-57.
Fulltext: Vol.01, no 1, p 33-57.pdf (1.48MB)

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The English system of determiners seems to be very simple, since there are so few articles, the and alan. But it is more complex than it appears which serves pragmatic text functions: it is used to differentiate definite and indefinite noun phrases and to signal in a text whether particular information is given or new. Using an existing data base from reading miscue research the miscues (unexpected responses) of readers in second, fourth, and sixth grades in 8 American populations were studied to understand the control of the determiner system by the subjects and how they used determiners in the reading of cohesive narrative texts. Miscues were far less frequent than on general text words and they were limited to a small number of categories. There were almost no substitutions of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. A large proportion of the miscues were article for article substitutions. Omissions and insertions were much more common than for general miscues which reflects the use of null determiners in the English noun phrase. The study strongly supported a model of reading that is transactional and constructive with readers generating their own text parallel to the published text. It showed readers of all three age groups in strong control of the determiner system of English, which is

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