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Center and Periphery

2018· other· en· W2793875281 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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

Bibliographic record

VenueThe TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching · 2018
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCenter (category theory)World EnglishesDynamics (music)ColonialismRelevance (law)Set (abstract data type)CurriculumSociologyLinguisticsMathematics educationGeographyPedagogyPolitical scienceComputer sciencePsychologyArchaeologyLaw

Abstract

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The terms “center” and “periphery” have a special significance for the English language given how widely it is learned and used around the world today. Various powerful centers of English use have tremendous attraction and influence. In turn, these centers render other English‐using communities to a relative peripheral status, thus creating a complex set of dynamics and tensions between communities. The concept of World Englishes captures this complexity in identifying the Inner Circle, where English historically has functioned as an L1, and the multilingual, demographically superior Outer and Expanding Circles, where English has become an additional language as a consequence of British colonial rule and greater transnational interaction. For native and non‐native English‐speaking teachers (NESTs and NNESTs) around the world, these center‐versus‐periphery dynamics have important ramifications for curriculum development and pedagogical practice. They further have personal relevance for NNESTs, who are the vast majority of instructors and are themselves from the Outer and Expanding Circles.

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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)0.003
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.676
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.348 · 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