Is Thinking Aloud Reactive When Writing in the Heritage Language?

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 380-399

  Yanguas, Iñigo ^a   Lado, Beatriz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent verbalizations; Reactivity; Spanish heritage language learners; Think aloud protocols; Writing tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867680233     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2012.01198.x     Document Type: Article

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