Overview
- Addresses the validity of TAPs with mixed methods
- Includes detailed schemes for coding L2 writing performance
- Categorizes reactivity-causing factors and omissions of reporting in TAPs
Part of the book series: English Language Education (ELED, volume 34)
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This book addresses the validity of think-aloud protocols (TAPs) in L2 writing research through a mixed methods study and proposes effective approaches for their valid implementation. The book uncovers the reactive effects that TAPs have on L2 writing performance and processes, and examines how individual factors moderate this reactivity. It further presents and categorizes participants' perceptions regarding reactivity and veridicality. To enhance veridicality, the book identifies incomplete TAPs using retrospective verbal reports as a reference point. Recommendations for utilizing TAPs include considering participants' individual differences, recent experiences, and emotions.
This book will be valuable to educators teaching methodology in second or foreign language education, applied linguistics, or writing research, and to L2 researchers or graduate students with a broad interest in research methods, process-based research, or writing studies, or planning to incorporate TAPs into their research.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Chengsong Yang is associate professor of applied linguistics at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He holds a PhD degree from The University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has articles published in Perspectives, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Reading and Writing, System, Asia Pacific Education Researcher, and others.
Lawrence Jun Zhang, PhD, is Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. His main areas of interest are reading and writing in English as a second/foreign language. He has published extensively along these lines in leading journals, including Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Language Teaching Research, Journal of Second Language Writing, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, System, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, among others. His co-authored book, Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language: Teachers’ Cognition Formation and Reformation, was published by Springer in 2022. He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief for System (Elsevier).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Think-Aloud Protocols in Second Language Writing
Book Subtitle: A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Reactivity and Veridicality
Authors: Chengsong Yang, Lawrence Jun Zhang
Series Title: English Language Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39574-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39573-4Published: 26 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39576-5Due: 26 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39574-1Published: 25 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2213-6967
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6975
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics