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Shortcomings of NESTs and <scp>NNESTs</scp>

2018· other· en· W2913874703 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching · 2018
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStress (linguistics)English as a lingua francaLinguisticsLingua francaFirst languageForeign languageEnglish languageSecond languageEnglish as a foreign languagePsychologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Thanks to the English language's status as lingua franca, an increasing number of people around the world want to learn the language. However, the historical belief holds strong around the world that native speakers of English are more qualified to teach it than non‐native speakers of that language. As a result, learners of English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL), parents of younger learners of English, and language school administrators often instinctively prefer native English‐speaking teachers (NESTs) rather than non‐native English‐speaking teachers (NNESTs). Numerous studies show that while non‐native speakers of English can be excellent ESL/EFL teachers, they can also have a number of shortcomings (e.g., a foreign accent), depending on individual contexts. However, these studies also show that native speakers of English are not without pedagogical, cultural, and linguistic shortcomings, too, in some contexts. This entry presents these shortcomings based on a wealth of publications related to this topic and then discusses these shortcomings' pedagogical implications.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient 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 score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.221 · 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