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Record W4393334960 · doi:10.5539/elt.v17n4p70

Using Technology to Assist in EFL Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension

2024· article· en· W4393334960 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Abdulrahman Ali Alqahtani

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language Teaching · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicForeign Language Teaching Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyReading comprehensionVocabularyVocabulary developmentReading (process)LinguisticsComprehensionTeaching methodMathematics education

Abstract

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Technology has significantly assisted ESP vocabulary development and reading comprehension, an aspect confirmed and validated by several research projects. The majority of research has focused on assessment outcomes. However, student input must be addressed to enhance the use of technology and its influence on learning. This study intends to assess the usefulness of technology in this sector in terms of student views, attitudes, and preferences to boost technology acceptance and usage in English vocabulary learning and reading comprehension. 31 students were asked questions about using multimedia tools to learn English. The responses were then compared and examined. The results showed that ESP learners had a good attitude regarding the apps. Furthermore, they prefer to employ a variety of technology instruments.

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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)0.006
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

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 head0.022
GPT teacher head0.400
Teacher spread0.378 · 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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