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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 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)0.001
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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.097
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.016
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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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Published2021
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