Verbal Protocols in Literacy Research

Susan E. Israel is the President of University of Saint Francis of Assisi, USA, established as a global reading research institution to celebrate the teaching and learning of reading teachers in under-resources communities around the world. She has been a member of International Reading Association and Literacy Research Association for many years, and is co-editor of Handbook of Research in Reading Comprehension (Israel & Duffy, 2009) and the forthcoming Handbook of Research in Reading Comprehension Volume II (Israel & Cartwright, 2017).

"This update of verbal protocol research in the first two decades of the 21st century will be of significant interest to reading teachers and researchers globally. As a Canadian literacy researcher who was already familiar with Pressley and Afflerbach’s seminal (1995) publication, I highly appreciate Israel’s decision to include – and even highlight – global verbal protocol studies and reading comprehension development at the international level. In addition, Israel’s updates are especially valuable given the major shifts in thinking in this century regarding the nature of literacy."- Terry A. Campbell, Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, Canada, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning

• Part I: Conceptual Overview 1. Verbal Protocol Analysis: A Summary of Past Research Trends 2. Advancement of Methodological Approaches 3. Theoretical Review: What is Already Known about Constructively Responsive Reading Part II: Summary of verbal protocol studies 4 . Summary of Methods Employed 5. Summary of Verbal Protocols in Reading 6. Metacognitive Mechanisms: Summary of Cognitive Procedures and Regulation 7. An Analysis of Social Contextual Variables and Social Criterion Part III 8. Constructive Responsivity: Instructional Strategies with Complex Text 9. Verbal Protocol Studies: A Refinement of Methodological Processes