still be part of his or her verbal repertoire but it does not belong to the
speech repertoire of the community, in this case, New Zealand.verbal reporting n
(in research) a procedure used for collecting data about the processes a
person employs in carrying out a task. Verbal reporting involves the subject
giving an oral description of the processes they are using while they are
completing a task. Verbal reporting attempts to gather information about
the cognitive and linguistic aspects involved in different kinds of tasks. For
example, in order to learn how someone writes a summary of a text, a person
may be asked to describe the decisions and judgements they make as they
complete a summary task. Several different kinds of verbal reporting
techniques have been used in studies of second language learning. They
include: think-aloud procedures. These involve saying aloud every-
thing that occurs while performing a task. For example; in studying how a
person revises a piece of writing (such as a draft of a term paper), the learner
describes everything that occurs to them as they revise the paper.
Introspection. This involves the subject reflecting on the kinds of decisions
they make and the kinds of strategies they use while carrying out a task, and
reporting them as they occur.
Retrospection. This involves reflecting on how a task or activity was carried
out after it occurred. This requires the subject to infer his or her own mental
processes or strategies from their memory of a particular mental event under
observation.
verb-pattern n
the sequence in which a verb occurs in relation to other elements in a
sentence.
Verbs occur in different relationships or sequences with other sentence ele-
ments, such as Verb +Object (open the door), Verb +Object +Adverbial
(put the food on the table) Verb +that-clause (believe that it is true), Verb +
infinitive (need to leave).
Learning a language involves learning the patterns in which verbs occur.
verb phrase^1 n
also VP
(in transformational generative grammar) the part of a sentence
which contains the main verb and also any object^2 (s), complement(s) and
adverbial(s).
For example, in:
Tom gave a watch to his daughter.
all the sentence except Tom is the verb phrase.
see also noun phrase
verbal reporting