USING THE THINK-ALOUD METHOD TODIAGNOSE READING PROBLEMS

• 作者: Zou Qiming
• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2001,（4）
• 页码范围: 11-14
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H319

摘要

The think-aloud method has been widely used in cognitivestudies, and in particular, in the studies of the on-goingprocesses in reading comprehension. It is an effective tool, ifused properly, in revealing how the reader processes the textinformation and solves his/her comprehension problems usingdifferent kinds of strategies during text processing. As a result,it allows us to have a glimpse of the reader’s cognitive processesduring text processing that we cannot see under other situations,and allows us to find out the processing strengths of the reader aswell as the limitations and problems of his/her processingstrategies. Therefore, it can be useful in diagnosing students’reading problems. Although the think-aloud method is popular in cognitivestudies, it is difficult to manage. This paper offers somesuggestions on designing a program for diagnosing readingproblems to control the factors that affect the think-aloudperformance.