Think aloud protocol

[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.