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Record W4200075971 · doi:10.21832/9781788927338-003

Foreword

2021· book-chapter· en· W4200075971 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueMultilingual Matters eBooks · 2021
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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Exclusive English-medium instruction (EMI), especially one that also takes its norms for the 'E' exogenously, is an aberration in those countries that lie outside of the 'inner circle' of the UK, USA, Anglophone Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and parts of the Caribbean in Kachru's (1992) World Englishes model.Aberration is also arguably apt as a description for the practice of EMI in certain communities in these inner circle countries.Exclusive EMI in 'outer or expanding circle' countries and communities is a cultural travesty, one that highlights the hegemonic slant and reach of either or both colonial cultural politics and contemporary political economy.On this view, then, EMI in content area pedagogy, even when it is initiated locally, is cut from the same ideological fabric of 'linguistic imperialism' as the 'monolingual fallacy' in the teaching of English in outer/ expanding circle environments which Phillipson (1992) criticises.In both content and English language pedagogy, EMI guarantees that the inner circle has a huge market for educational resources and services, as well as a cheap and readily usable workforce.Because language, as critical language awareness reminds us, is more than a means of communication, EMI in outer/expanding circle contexts is easily able to shape local aspirations and serve as a local system of social selection for a global marketplace that is tied to the apron strings of the inner circle.To take on the 'E' in EMI, as this collection does, is therefore much more than an exercise in documenting pedagogical practices.Taking on the 'E' is a major intervention in the ordinary course of colonial cultural politics and contemporary political economy in the classroom.The editors, BethAnne Paulsrud, Zhongfeng Tian and Jeanette Toth, as well as their authors are to be applauded for tackling this question through the lens of translanguaging.Obviously, translanguaging has by now established itself as, among others, theory, pedagogy and political action.It is therefore well suited to challenge the pride of place that has been traditionally accorded the 'E' in content or language pedagogy in multilingual outer circle contexts, or to push back on, and temper the infl uence of, an increasingly important 'E' in expanding circle countries and communities.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
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 score0.979
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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 integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.001

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 head0.040
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.202 · 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