Concerns of French immersion parents in supporting their children's learning at home
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research project sought to identify the concerns of anglophone, French Immersion parents of elementary school children in Northern British Columbia with respect to their perceived needs in supporting their children's academic learning.A qualitative, focus group approach was used in order to provide depth of information.Six parents of Early French Immersion students attended.This parent sample indicated interest in learning French themselves, particularly basic vocabulary, grammatical constructs of the language, and elements of pronunciation.Services desired from teachers or tutors included tapes of stories, vocabulary and dictee words for student use at home as well as help with French homework.The parents were adamant about the importance of regular contact with the teacher and made suggestions regarding access to informal discussion times.Bilingual planners and more regular use of the student planners for relaying information were recommended.These parents also desired more contact with Frenchspeaking individuals for their children outside of the classroom.Core French: A program in which French is taught as a separate subject taught to all students beginning in Grade 5, and then optionally from Grades 9 to 12, in British Columbia.It is also referred to as Basic French or F.S.L. (French as a Second Language). French Immersion (Early Immersion): A second language program beginning inKindergarten or Grade 1 in which French is the language of instruction for all or most of the school day. Late French Immersion (Late Immersion): A French Immersion program with an entrypoint in Grade 4 or later.I use the term later-entry to refer to students who join an early Immersion program after Kindergarten.Parents: For my purposes the terms parents and families are used interchangeably and one parent, guardian, or stepparent will represent the views of one family unit within the focus group. Parent Advisory Council (PAC):This refers to a group of parents representing both English and French Immersion stream students who meet to plan fundraising and to support the learning for all students in the school. Local Parents for French: This refers to the local chapter ofthe Canadian Parents forFrench. Background to the ProblemEarly French Immersion began in this small city in Northern British Columbia in the mid-1980s thanks to a small but committed group of parents.The model mimics many programs found elsewhere in Canada in that French is the primary language of instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 7. Fonnal teaching of English does not commence until Grade 3 at which time it occupies 20% of instruction time.It is
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".