This description of an exercise is taken from Waters and Waters’ (1995) book which focuses on academic study skills:.Use what you have done as a spur to think in more general terms about the differences between speech and writing.
Then look at how the written and spoken versions differ. How would she express what is said in the above extract? Either write a paragraph or compose one in your head. Imagine that this subject is asked to write a report on her problems with think-aloud techniques. The main problem erm was that I was so aware of the need to keep talking that I didn’t get a chance to think about erm anything through and I was I was desperate to be able to switch off sit back think about it in peace and quiet think something through and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to come up with anything not wonderful not even satisfactory really through this necessity to keep talking and it is drivel I found that if I mentioned an idea if I hadn’t had to talk about it I would have been rejecting it within within seconds probably as rubbish. It does not contain punctuation, because there is no punctuation in speech. The transcription below is a more accurate representation of what she actually said. That transcribed version was modified and slightly abridged. In CW8.7 you read the comments of a subject complaining bitterly about the think-aloud technique for collecting data. Say what piece of information contained in the message is important for each passenger – what it is that they ‘hear’. One thing you might surmise about Passenger A, for example, is that they are travelling on the Edinburgh train (or seeing off someone else who is travelling on it). For each, specify what you know about each passenger, including what you think they do and do not know just before the announcement is made.
We might say that each passenger takes different information out of the same message.
Here is what they say to themselves when they hear the announcement: Among those who attend more carefully are three individuals. For many listening to this announcement, it will be of no importance and they will give it little attention their travel plans do not involve Edinburgh, or Platform 5. The following message comes over the public announcement system: The train at Platform 5 is the 10.30 to Edinburgh. The scene is a crowded railway station in London at 10 o’clock one morning.
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