Thinking‐Aloud as Talking‐in‐Interaction: Reinterpreting How L2 Lexical Inferencing Gets Done

Deschambault, Ryan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00653.x

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“…Beyond this, a more complex qualitative–quantitative–qualitative approach seems inadequate even when researchers use solely cognitivist approaches and information‐processing models. As discussed earlier, in the field of applied linguistics, and considering the work of Firth and Wagner () that acknowledged the need for examining language use and acquisition within the social contexts in which they are situated, it is possible to consider the socially situated nature of verbal protocols in data collection, transcription and analysis within the context of verbal reporting that focuses on literacy processes (see Deschambault, ). Researchers are already experimenting with sociocultural approaches to collecting and analysing verbal reports for the purposes of assessing culturally and linguistically diverse learners in areas such as cognitive interviewing and field methods (e.g.…”

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Verbal reports in the reading processes of language learners: A methodological review

Smith

Kim

Vorobel

et al. 2019

Review of Education

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This methodological review highlights the trends in empirical studies where a methodological construct (i.e. verbal reports) intersects with content (i.e. literacy research). Specifically, we synthesise research on language learners’ reading in which verbal reports were deployed as a methodological tool. Questioning the long‐standing assumption that verbal report methods validated in first‐language verbal report reading studies necessarily constitute a basis for validation of second‐language verbal report reading studies, we consider the broader educational frameworks within which studies are embedded. In our synthesis of language learners’ verbal report literacy research published between 2000 and 2015, we attend to the social, demographic and geographic realities characteristic of studies reviewed and of the participants involved. Our findings demonstrate the following: (a) tendency to report quantitative information regardless of the type of verbal reporting method and the component of reading explored; (b) predominance of independent concurrent methods that emphasised the reading product; (c) predominance of integrated verbal reports (i.e. concurrent and other forms of reporting) in sociocultural studies that reflected the reading process; (d) concerns about validity in studies premised on cognitivist models of verbal reports; (e) a tendency to use solely concurrent verbal reports in quantitative studies; (f) high reliance on integrated concurrent methods in qualitative studies; and (g) preponderance of qualitative‐to‐quantitative versus a qualitative‐to‐quantitative‐to‐qualitative verbal reporting paradigms across studies. Based on these findings, we make several recommendations to be considered when verbal reports are used to study language learners’ reading processes.

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Verbal reports in the reading processes of language learners: A methodological review

Smith

Kim

Vorobel

et al. 2019

Review of Education

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“…e l s e v i e r . c o m / n e d t reliant on the long term memory (Ericsson and Simon, 1993;Deschambault, 2012).…”

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Using concurrent think-aloud and protocol analysis to explore student nurses' social learning information communication technology knowledge and skill development

Todhunter¹

2015

Nurse Education Today

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“…Lexical inferencing has attracted the researchers' attention. It is considered the primary activity through which lexical development occurs in the second or the forging language (Deschambault, 2012). The learners use different knowledge sources to infer meaning for unknown words they encounter in a text (Bengleil & Paribakht, 2004;Elgort, 2017;Haastrup, 1989Haastrup, , 1991Jelic, 2007;Naasaji, 2003Naasaji, , 2004Qian, 2005;Wesche & Paribakht, 2010).…”

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Lexical Inferencing in Newspaper Columns: An Introspective Study

Shafiq¹,

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Tahir³

et al. 2018

IJEL

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The significance of vocabulary in second or foreign language cannot be denied. The study explores the knowledge sources used by ESL learners in generating the meanings of the unknown words found in the columns of a daily Dawn. The study also investigates the effect of text length and syntactic property of unknown words in the inferential behaviors of learners. The participants of the study were chosen randomly from BS English, Govt. Emerson College, Multan. The amended taxonomy of knowledge sources and clues given by Bengleil and Paribakht (2004) was used in the study. The inferences verbalized their thoughts while guessing the meanings of the unknown words. The higher group was more successful in their guessing than the lower group. The study also found out that text length and the syntactic property of an unknown word his impact on the process of lexical inferencing. The study recommends the strategy of lexical inferencing as it facilitates reading comprehension and enhances lexical knowledge of learners.

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Thinking‐Aloud as Talking‐in‐Interaction: Reinterpreting How L2 Lexical Inferencing Gets Done

Cited by 11 publications

References 59 publications

Verbal reports in the reading processes of language learners: A methodological review

Verbal reports in the reading processes of language learners: A methodological review

Using concurrent think-aloud and protocol analysis to explore student nurses' social learning information communication technology knowledge and skill development

Lexical Inferencing in Newspaper Columns: An Introspective Study

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