The present study set out to delineate to what extentfive intermediate learners engaged in structuring and problematizing scaffolding in two writing tasks. The study aimed at illuminating how the participants engaged with structuring and problematizing scaffolds cognitively, behaviorally, and affectively.  Learners’ written essays, think-aloud protocols, and interviews shaped the data sources w...

this study investigated how awareness affected learners’ intake and production in relation to their cognitive styles. it is assumed that learners’ cognitive styles may affect their ability to notice particular features in the input and, consequently, their intake and production. adult learners of english were exposed to four english structures through four sets of problem-solving tasks, followe...

This study examined the cognitive processes in interpretation through employing Think-aloud Protocols (TAPs) among Iranian translators. The participants included 10 professional and nonprofessional translators selected through Nelson Proficiency Test. TAP and retrospective interview were used as the major instruments in order to collect the data from self-reports protocols. In order to assess t...

The study investigated English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive awareness of reading strategy use. The participants were 12 Taiwanese college students who were required to read aloud and think aloud the eight designated texts. The collected data came from the pre-and postquestionnaires and an interview on metacognition in EFL reading as well as participants’ thinkaloud protocols. T...

This study describes how intermediate-level first language English readers of Russian as a second language deploy lexical inferencing and other strategies when reading informational texts. Fifth-semester students of Russian performed think-alouds while reading two texts; one written for the general adult reader, and the other meant for school-age children. Reader think-alouds were transcribed a...

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Scripts are sites of religious, cultural and political power. Although scripts are often viewed solely as technical devices in the service of meaning, the particular histories of scripts’ coming into being, their uses and sometimes disappearance can tell us much about shifting religious agendas, memory and forgetting, and attachment to community and place. In my talk I explore the history of wr...