The Application of Thinking Aloud Method in the Listening and Speaking Teaching of College English

Abstract

Abstract-Thinking aloud method has been used to describe and study the cognitive evolution of human beings in the process of dealing with problems. Thinking aloud means speaks out the immediate thoughts and all the information in the minds at any time and place when people are engaged in a task, which can also be understood as the behavior of using voice to express the state of mind. This paper adopts the thinking-aloud method to describe students' cognitive process, comparative analysis process of problem solving, the thinking and judgment process in the college English listening and speaking course, which helps to further improve and optimize the teaching methods and improve the students' English comprehensive ability.