Think-Aloud Protocols in Second Language Writing

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).

Foreword by Rod Ellis.- Introduction.- Literature Review.- Methodology.- Reactivity: Results from Quantitative Analyses of Performance.- Reactivity: Results from Qualitative Analyses of Reflections.- Veridicality: Results from Qualitative Analyses of Reflections.- Veridicality: Results from Comparison of Reports.- Discussion.- Conclusions, Limitations, and Implications for Using TAPs.