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Record W1542619166

Writing Life 1 in Language 2

2006· article· fr· W1542619166 on OpenAlexaff
Linda Steinman

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill Journal of Education / Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill · 2006
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesSecond-language acquisitionLinguisticsTheme (computing)PsychologyPhilosophyComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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ABSTRACT. What is second language acquisition like from the learner’s perspective? I examined published autobiographies authored by those who have documented their language learning journeys. One theme that recurred across the texts was Writing; a sub-theme was Writing life 1 in language 2. Some narrativists/learners described the dissonance, while others described the relief they felt when writing about events in a language other than the language in which those events occurred. Insights about writing provided by the learners/narrativists could illuminate both second language acquisition (SLA) theory and SLA pedagogy. ECRIRE LA VIE 1 DANS LA LANGUE 2 RESUME. Comment l’apprenant considere-t-il l’acquisition d’une langue seconde? J’ai examine des autobiographies publiees par des personnes qui ont documente leur parcours d’apprentissage d’une langue. L’un des themes recurrents des textes est l’ecriture; un sous-theme etant l’ecriture d’une vie dans une autre langue que la langue maternelle. Certains narrateurs/apprenants ont fait etat d’une discordance, tandis que d’autres ont exprime leur soulagement d’ecrire sur leur vie dans une langue autre que celle dans laquelle cette derniere s’est produite. Les observations que nous ont fournies les narrateurs/apprenants sur l’ecriture pourraient contribuer a enrichir la theorie de l’acquisition d’une langue seconde (SLA) et la pedagogie SLA.

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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)0.007
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 score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.008
Scholarly communication0.0100.006
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.148
GPT teacher head0.393
Teacher spread0.246 · 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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