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Record W4386504006 · doi:10.5430/wjel.v13n8p210

Incorporating Teachers’ Views on Different Techniques for Teaching Foreign Languages in the Classroom

2023· article· en· W4386504006 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

VenueWorld Journal of English Language · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsForeign languageComputer scienceMathematics educationPoint (geometry)Foreign language teachingCommunicative language teachingPollingNatural (archaeology)Process (computing)Teaching methodLanguage educationPsychologyMathematics

Abstract

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Attempts have been made to understand how teachers see different methods of teaching foreign languages. Also, numerous approaches and techniques have been used to improve the process of teaching foreign languages. These techniques have always been scrutinized for their perceived effectiveness and frequency of usage by the teachers. On the one hand, each approach is time-specific and may solve the issues of language instruction and learning at that point sufficiently; on the other, its flaws are revealed, making way for a new approach. This article aims at presenting an assessment of the frequency of usage of different teaching methods and techniques in foreign language learning, explicating the views of the foreign language teachers and evaluating the level of effectiveness. The study community include 200 foreign languages teachers drawn across various locations. There was no target on a particular foreign language, and the teachers participated through responding to questionnaires inputs. The 200 teachers polled for the study presented their views on the viability of six different teaching methods and strategies, including the direct or natural method, the hybrid method, the simulated experiment approach, the communicative strategy, the computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Data was collected using structured questionnaire, and analysis was conducted using relevant statistical measures, including the calculation of the frequencies and percentile values of the views of the respondents. The survey result indicated that the direct or natural method, and the communicative method are not frequently used by the teachers. The participated teachers further affirm that hybrid method is the most current effective method, followed by the CALL, CLIL and Simulated learning method. In terms of effectiveness of method, the result indicated that hybrid method and simulated method are the most effective teaching method. It was further shown in the analysis that foreign languages teachers in high schools must pay attention to the impacts of digital tools in facilitating language learning and improve learner’s communication ability. School leaders must incorporate the views of teachers on best methods for foreign language learning.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.226
Threshold uncertainty score0.485

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.259 · 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