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Record W1576683113 · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139524834.016

Performed ethnography for critical language teacher education

2004· book-chapter· en· W1576683113 on OpenAlexaff
Tara Goldstein

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2004
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsActive listeningPedagogyCurriculumSet (abstract data type)Reading (process)Mathematics educationEthnographyTask (project management)Language educationReflection (computer programming)Computer sciencePsychologySociologyLinguisticsEngineering

Abstract

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Introduction Conceptualizing and implementing teacher education programming for teachers who work with students who do not use the school's language of instruction as their primary language is a complex task. At the heart of such programming, we usually find a set of courses that examine such topics as the teaching of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills; content-based language teaching; curriculum planning; classroom management; and evaluation strategies. Increasingly, these methodology courses also include observation of and reflection on language classrooms, peer teaching with feedback, and cooperative learning activities. However, what isn't often discussed is the impact that the arrival of second or other language students has on a school's linguistic, cultural, and learning environment outside the language classroom or the linguistic and racial tensions that sometimes arise as these students attempt to integrate into the school community. Responding to changes in the school learning environment and linguistic and racial tensions between students is not easy, and school staff members often turn to their language teachers to help them think about effective ways of moving forward. This chapter is about preparing language teachers to respond effectively to the complexities of working across linguistic, cultural, and racial differences in multilingual schools so that they can show leadership around such issues as language choice, linguistic discrimination, and racism. In thinking about how to prepare my own teacher education students for this kind of leadership, I have begun to experiment with ethnographic playwriting and performed ethnography.

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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)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.055

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0050.009
Scholarly communication0.0050.005
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.001

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.211 · 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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Published2004
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