Think-aloud protocol

Riitta Jääskeläinen
University of Eastern Finland
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The term ‘think-aloud protocol’ refers to a type of research data used in empirical translation process research. The data elicitation method is known as ‘thinking aloud’ or ‘concurrent verbalization’, which means that subjects are asked to perform a task and to verbalize whatever crosses their mind during the task performance. The written transcripts of the verbalizations are called think-aloud protocols (TAPs).

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Englund Dimitrova, Birgitta
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(eds) 2000 Tapping and Mapping the Processes of Translation and Interpreting. Outlooks on Empirical Research. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI logo  BoPGoogle Scholar