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Record W3185032554 · doi:10.23977/aetp.2021.54017

A Study of Noun Errors in Non-English Major Undergraduates' English Use

2021· article· en· W3185032554 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Yunyi Zhang

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvances in Educational Technology and Psychology · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicSecond Language Acquisition and Learning
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNounLinguisticsVocabularyPsychologyConfusionQuality (philosophy)English grammarComputer scienceNatural language processingGrammar

Abstract

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Noun errors often exist in non-English undergraduates' English use, which are serious grammatical mistakes that can lead to confusion or even wrong understanding of meanings because of improper ways of English expressing. The study uses questionnaires to draw an overall picture of noun errors in non-English undergraduates' English from five universities in Beijing. The study reviews the theories of Mother Tongue Transfer, Second Language Acquisition and Collocations in order to test the sensitivity of undergraduates in noun errors and investigates the underlying reasons why they tend to make those mistakes. The results indicate that the subjects make noun errors probably because they are apt to be misled by Chinese vocabulary with similar meanings. Numerous mistakes are made due to the unfamiliarity with parts of speech and the number of nouns, small vocabulary and the confusion of same-root nouns, etc. Based on the findings, the study provides suggestions that students should be greatly encouraged to accumulate and practice collocations, read more high-quality articles published in English or watch authentic video clips in English instructions, etc.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.366
Teacher spread0.350 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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