think aloud protocol

== English == === Alternative forms === think-aloud protocol === Noun === think aloud protocol (plural think aloud protocols) 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. 2000, Don Kiraly, A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education, St. Jerome Publishing, p. 1-2: [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. ==== Usage notes ==== This term is commonly stylised both in title case and in lower case and either with or without a hyphen between think and aloud. ==== Alternative forms ==== think-aloud protocol ==== Synonyms ==== TAP (abbreviation) ==== Synonyms ==== talk aloud protocol ==== Translations ====