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Record W2761323249 · doi:10.1515/cercles-2017-0016

Classroom assistants for foreign language pedagogy

2017· article· en· W2761323249 on OpenAlex
Trudy O’Brien

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueLanguage Learning in Higher Education · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsForeign languageApplied linguisticsLanguage assessmentPedagogyLanguage educationEnglish as a foreign languageLanguage proficiencyPsychologyMathematics educationLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract This paper describes how Applied Linguistics (AL) seminar students that are proficient in languages other than English intern as classroom assistants (CAs) in foreign language classrooms. The CAs gain useful insights from the seminar on theoretical and pedagogical approaches, methods and techniques in L2 pedagogy and then apply this knowledge through their practical experience as mentors/tutors to language learners. A diverse range of second/foreign language courses thus benefit from these “participant-observers”. Seminar students report on their experiences through written and oral exercises, discussions and presentations, and finally through journal reflections which are first reviewed by their supervising language instructors before submission to the seminar professor. A review of these journal entries shows that placing informed classroom assistants into a second/foreign language classroom can be very helpful to language instructors, their students and the CAs themselves, as long as communication lines are clear and assumptions about theoretical perspectives and practical tasks are understood. Such a course would be a fruitful supportive option in Applied Linguistics programmes with access to second/foreign language programmes that would benefit from informed classroom aides.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.791
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.054
GPT teacher head0.360
Teacher spread0.306 · 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