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Record W2955101084 · doi:10.5539/elt.v12n8p20

Effects of Content-Based Instruction on English Language Performance of Thai Undergraduate Students in a Non-English Program

2019· article· en· W2955101084 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language Teaching · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyEnglish languageSheltered instructionMathematics educationCourageTest (biology)PerceptionPedagogyLanguage educationComprehension approach

Abstract

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The research purposes were to: 1) develop lesson plans for content-based instruction; 2) evaluate the students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of content-based instruction; and 3) investigate the effects of content-based instruction on English language performance of Thai undergraduate students in a non-English program. The sample group was 19 Thai undergraduate students. The research instruments were: 1) lesson plans for content-based instruction; 2) an evaluation form of lesson plans; 3) an effectiveness questionnaire on content-based instruction; and 4) English language performance tests. Data were analysed the mean, standard deviation, content analysis and a t-test. The research results were: 1) the lesson plans were developed and evaluated by experts as applicable for use at a high level and pilot-tested with 14 non-targeted Thai undergraduate students with the perceived effectiveness at a high level; 2) the 19 targeted Thai undergraduate students perceived the content-based instruction as an effective methodology and essential aid in generating opportunities to use English at a high level. They thought that it was fun and helped them practice, have a better attitude and gain more courage to express themselves in English; and 3) the post-course English language performance were significantly (P < 0.05) higher than the pre-course English language performance. In conclusion, content-based instruction produced positive results and could be used as an effective methodology and essential aid in generating opportunities to use English, which resulted in increased English language performance.

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.228 · 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