I agree with what was said that reading and  pronunciation are two different 
activities.  However, I believe that  reading aloud can help a teacher and 
student reveal that student's thinking  process through his/her miscues.  When a 
student is reading, a teacher can  try to enter that student's mind to see if 
the reader is interacting with the  text and making meaning as he/she reads.  
This can be done if there are  high quality miscues in the reading.  The only 
way to find this out is  through reading aloud.  Teachers need to know the 
process that their  students are taking when they read.  If the student goes back 
and  re-rereads to correct himself, makes insertions because his is relating 
to the  text, etc. we can better understand the student's level of literacy.  
This  has nothing to do with pronunciation.
 
Alison Cochrane
ESL Instructor
QCC
New York, NY
 
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I  have ended up 
where I needed to be. " 
~ Kahlil Douglas  Adams



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