Students’ understanding of different text types: strategies to identify and enhance students’ conceptual understanding

Abstract

This article evaluates students’ conceptual understanding using the think-aloud method. The participants, four students who were studying the last year of the Spanish ab initio course in an international school in Prague, volunteered to take part in the think-aloud protocols. The results show that the think-aloud method helps to get a better sense of students’ understanding of different text types.