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Gender Identity and Homophobia: The Impact on Adolescent Males Studying French 
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2008· article· en· W2088341976 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueModern Language Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender Studies in Language
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyVariety (cybernetics)PerceptionIdentity (music)Scale (ratio)English as a foreign languageImmigrationGender identityDevelopmental psychologySocial psychologyGender studiesPedagogySociologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Foreign and second language (L2) educators in English‐speaking countries are concerned that male students are losing interest in studying French. A large‐scale study was conducted to investigate gender differences in L2 motivation and participation among Grade 9 core French students in Canada. A mixed methodology was employed to investigate gender differences in a variety of motivational factors among Grade 9 French as a second language (FSL) students. Approximately 500 students in Grade 9 FSL completed a questionnaire. The significant findings were then explored in interviews with students and teachers. The root of several differences in motivation and participation lied in societal perceptions of what is considered gender‐appropriate male behavior. Although the study involves students studying FSL in Canada, its implications extend to learners of French in other English‐speaking countries.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.777
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.087
GPT teacher head0.346
Teacher spread0.259 · 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