Contents

List of Tables and Figures
List of Appendices
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction, Rationale and Overview of the Book

Chapter 2 Context of the Research
2.1 The Educational System in the Ukraine and Transcarpathia in Particular, and Teaching English in Transcarpathian Hungarian Schools
2.2 Educational Management in Transcarpathia
2.3 Criteria for Evaluating Learners' Educational Achievements in Foreign Languages
2.4 The Most Widely Applied English Textbook in Transcarpathian Hungarian Schools and the Description of Some Teacher's Notes to This Textbook
2.4.1 General Description
2.4.2 Language Content and the Control Lessons
2.4.3 Problems with the Plakhotnyk-Books
2.4.4 Conclusions about the English Textbook for Form 6
2.4.5 Teacher's Notes

Chapter 3 Literature Review
3.1 Reading Definitions
3.2 Reading Models
3.3 Oral Reading
3.4 Miscues and Miscue Analysis
3.5 The Goodman Taxonomy of Reading Miscues: Criticism
3.6 Research Applying Miscue Analysis
3.6.1 Native Language Reading
3.6.2 Foreign / Second Language Reading
3.6.3 Contribution of Miscue Analysis to the Understanding of Reading
3.7 Responding to Miscues

Chapter 4 Research Design
4.1 Hypotheses and Research Questions
4.2 Participants
4.2.1 Learners
4.2.2 English Teachers
4.2.3 Educational Managers
4.3 Instruments
4.3.1 Reading Proficiency Testing
4.3.1.1 The Reading Proficiency Test
4.3.1.2 Results of the Reading Proficiency Test
4.3.1.2.1 Criteria for Selecting the Schools
4.3.1.2.2 The Proficiency Test Findings
4.3.1.2.3 Selecting the Subjects for the Main Study
4.3.2 Reading Materials for Learners: Text Selection Criteria
4.3.3 Interviews
4.3.4 Comprehension Measures
4.3.5 Classroom Observation
4.3.6 Curriculum Analysis
4.4 Piloting the Instruments
4.4.1 Piloting the Texts
4.4.1.1 Types of Miscues Committed by Learners during Piloting
4.4.2 Piloting the Interview Protocols
4.4.2.1 Retrospective Learner Interview
4.4.2.2 English Teacher Interview
4.4.2.3 Educational Manager Interview
4.4.3 Piloting the Comprehension Questions and Text Outlines
4.5 Data Collection Procedures
4.6. Data Analysis
4.6.1 Different Techniques in Miscue Analysis
4.6.2 The Miscue Coding System Used for Coding the Data
4.6.3 Other Analyses

Chapter 5 Research findings
5.1 Interviews
5.1.1 Retrospective Learner Interviews
5.1.2 Interviews with English Teachers
5.1.3 Interviews with Educational Managers
5.2 The Macro Level of Miscues: Oral Reading in the Classroom
5.3 Curriculum Analysis Results
5.4 Miscue Analysis
5.4.1 Description of the Learners' Reading Behaviour (Based on the Researcher's Fieldnotes).
5.4.2 Analysis of Learners' Miscues Committed during the Reading Aloud Recordings: Major Findings
5.4.3 Miscues of Individual Learners
5.5 Comprehension Measures
5.5.1 Retelling
5.5.2 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 6 Discussion and Interpretation of Results

Chapter 7 Conclusions, Suggestions for Reading Instruction and Research, and Limitations of the Study

References
Appendices