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Lurdes Armengol Castells, Josep Maria Cots Caimon
This paper analyses how two multicompetent speakers engage with protocolling, i.e. verbalising their thoughts, while writing in two languages different from their first. The study explores how procedure- and language-related episodes of awareness affect both the writing process itself and the written product. The research draws on current issues about explicit and implicit knowledge as well as on controlled and automatic processing. It also considers different layers of language awareness to explain the data available. The analysis attempts to integrate the data extracted from think-aloud (TA) protocols with (1) the final written products assessed by independent raters, (2) stimulated recall sessions held immediately after the TA sessions, and (3) the results of a language placement test. The data reveal that verbalisation of writing processes (used as a way of accessing writers' awareness) does not relate qualitatively to the writers' output. They also show that both procedure- and language-related episodes are more frequent in the L2 than in the foreign language.
