Reading Process: Evidence From Think Aloud Procedure

Ten subjects, majoring in microbiology participated in this experiment. The study aims at identifying how the students process new information and what strategies they employ in order to retrieve information as well as to understand it. We examined the reading strategies of the students while reading an English expository text using a think aloud procedure. The analysis of the protocols captured two perspectives of the reading process: the reader perspective and the text perspective. The results revealed that the subjects engaged in three main categories of reading strategies: constructing meaning, monitoring comprehension, and activating strategies to reach comprehension.