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The use of TV news in teaching culture in foreign language classrooms

2011· dissertation· en· W1524800822 on OpenAlexaff
Marina Grineva

Bibliographic record

VenueMemorial University Research Repository (Memorial University) · 2011
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCLIPSForeign languageTarget cultureLanguage educationRussian culturePedagogyComputer scienceMathematics educationPsychologyLinguisticsArtificial intelligenceArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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The issue of integrating language and culture teaching has been a focus of research for several decades. The discourse builds on the idea of inseparability of language and culture and the need to explore effective methods of incorporating target culture into foreign language instruction. The purpose of this study was to explore whether and how integration of TV news clips into the target language teaching facilitates the learning of the target culture. The study adopted a combination of data collection methods which involved questionnaires, follow-up interviews, and participant observations. Analysis of the themes generated from the findings and comparisons with the literature proved the importance and benefits of the use of authentic TV news clips to teach the target culture. Implications for teaching Russian as a foreign language and the Russian culture, as well as recommendations for further research in the area are provided.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.052
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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