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Record W1606231726 · doi:10.18806/tesl.v30i2.1141

The Role of Transitions in ESL Instruction

2013· article· fr· W1606231726 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Linda Steinman

Bibliographic record

VenueTESL Canada Journal · 2013
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesTransition (genetics)LinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Transitions in ESL contexts generally refer to those linking words placed between sentences and between paragraphs. Transitions in writing (and in speaking) are helpful; they facilitate coherence and cohesion when used correctly. Understand- ing them when reading allows us to join the writer in seeing why and how idea B follows idea A. In this commentary I argue that transitions serve the same func- tion in the unfolding of ESL instructional experiences. Instructors have pre- planned the choreography, but is it transparent to the students? Should it be? What if we conceive of the ESL lesson as text—an essay in particular?En anglais langue seconde, quand on parle de transitions, on fait généralement référence aux mots de liaison entre une phrase et une autre, et un paragraphe et un autre. Les transitions sont utiles à l’écrit (et à l’oral) ; quand elles sont bien employées, elles augmentent la cohérence et la cohésion du message. Quand le lecteur comprend les mots de transition, il voit la suite dans les idées de l’auteur. Dans cet article, j’affirme que les transitions servent la même fonction dans le déroulement des cours d’ALS. Les enseignants prévoient la chorégraphie, mais est-elle transparente pour les élèves ? Devrait-elle l’être ? Et si on concevait le cours d’ALS comme un texte – une dissertation, en fait?

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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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.009
Scholarly communication0.0050.006
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.175
Teacher spread0.169 · 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 designNot applicable
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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