Think alouds were a strategy and technique that were noticed a total of 13% of the time during lesson observations. A think aloud can be defined as the offering of a teacher’s inner dialogue or opinions out loud for students to hear their thoughts, ideas and to model self regulation of the thinking process possibly through questions such as; “What am I going to do now?”, “What is my problem?”, “I wonder what would happen if…” . Fisher (2005:47) suggests that the strategy of thinking aloud provides teachers the opportunity “…to model the world as we understand it in words”. The use of such a strategy may enable learners to hear more authentic and broader examples of the target language (Nunan 1991) and possibly help to scaffold and develop their own thinking skills (Fisher 2005).