Concurrent think-aloud protocol as a socially situated construct
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Tomomi Sasaki
Abstract
Verbal report protocols have been considered as direct representations of individual cognitive processes. The present study examined the social nature of verbal reports, particularly focusing on whether and in what ways concurrent think-aloud (TA) protocol data are recipient-designed.
The results of this study suggest that verbal reports elicited by TA do contain interactive and social features, and that the participants orient to a listener while carrying out the protocol. Treating verbal report protocols as solely cognitive products under represents what they actually reveal. Protocols are socially and interactively constituted, and this fact has to be taken into consideration when analyzing TA data. The strong orientations to the listener observed in this study suggest that a different recipient might evoke different content or types of protocol, just as other social factors could influence the data.
©Walter de Gruyter
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Articles in the same Issue
- The natural approach to adult learning and teaching of L2 grammar
- L2 grammatical gender in a complex morphological system: The case of German
- Concurrent think-aloud protocol as a socially situated construct
- Raising learner-initiated attention to the formal aspects of their oral production through transcription and stimulated reflection
- External reviewers
- Index of articles in Volume 46 (2008)
