An Experimental Study on Transfer of Cultural Connotation of Vocabulary
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Abstract
Based on transfer theory and Kellerman’s psychotypology markedness theory, this study was focused on the transfer of cultural connotation of vocabulary of the Chinese EFL learners. 216 subjects of English and non-English majors from three Chinese universities participated in a series of test in the study. Based on the scores of the test, this study yielded into two important findings. First, whole-group analysis showed that there existed transfer of cultural connotation of vocabulary among the Chinese EFL learners and the cultural awareness of the learners are positively correlative with their language capability. Second, the between-group analysis indicated L2 capability was negatively correlative with the ratio of transfer of cultural connotation of vocabulary. The ratio of transfer of cultural connotation of vocabulary of the high-ability learners was lower than that of the low-ability learners. Furthermore, individual differences, such as age, gender, learning style are also analyzed. The study provided several theoretical, methodological and pedagogical implications to L2 learning, L2 vocabulary research and interculture study. Key words: Vocabulary; Cultural connotation; TransferResume: Base sur la theorie de transfert et la theorie de fait d'etre marque psychotypologie de Kellerman, cette etude a ete concentree sur le transfert de connotation culturelle de vocabulaire des apprenants de EFL chinois. 216 sujets , certain sont specialises en anglais venant de trois universites chinoises ont participe a une serie de test dans l'etude. Base sur le grand nombre du test, cette etude a rapporte deux decouvertes importantes. D'abord, l'analyse de groupe entier a montre qu'il existe le transfert de connotation culturelle de vocabulaire parmi les apprenants de EFL chinois et la conscience culturelle des apprenants est positivement correlatif avec leur capacite de langue. Deuxiemement, l'analyse entre-groupe a indique que la capacite L2 etait negativement correlative avec la proportion de transfert de connotation culturelle de vocabulaire. La proportion de transfert de connotation culturelle de vocabulaire des apprenants tres doues etait inferieure que celui des apprenants qui ont peu de capacite. En outre, des differences individuelles, comme l'âge, le genre, le style d’apprendre sont aussi analyses. L'etude a fourni plusieurs implications theoriques, methodologiques et pedagogiques a l'etude de L2, L2 la recherche de vocabulaire et l'etude d'interculture.Mots-cles: Vocabulaire; Connotation culturelle; Transfert
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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