Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

think aloud protocol

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables: think aloud pro-to-col
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A data-gathering method used in a variety of research areas in people are asked to verbalise their thought processes as they do a specific task, and this is recorded for further analysis.

Example Sentences

"[I]n analysing the think-aloud protocols produced by novice and expert translators while they performed translation tasks, I was working under the implicit assumption that by having subjects verbalize what they were thinking while translating, it would be possible to identify cognitive strategies as if they were fixed routines."
"[M]uch research has employed concurrent verbalisation, or think-aloud protocols (TAPs)."
"[S]tudents might be interested in examining Think-Aloud Protocol (TAP) techniques and uses of the translator's verbalised self-commentary."
"[T]here are general or global strategies whose effects may not show up as decision points marked by pauses as opposed to more local strategies that show up in think-aloud protocols as the translator verbalizes the options he or she is considering."

Inflected Forms

think aloud protocols (plural) think-aloud protocol (alternative)

Synonyms

TAP talk aloud protocol

Questions

What does think aloud protocol mean?: A data-gathering method used in a variety of research areas in people are asked to verbalise their thought processes as they do a specific task, and this is recorded for further analysis.

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