Innovating with etandem language learning in a Quebec high school class: an activity theory perspective
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Abstract
Purpose Most research on tandem language learning (TLL) has involved university contexts . To contribute to the paucity of research in school settings, this study focuses on a high school teacher’s attempt at setting up an ESL-FSL exchange in a Canadian intranational context. To better understand the complexity of innovation, the process is analyzed through the lens of Activity Theory (AT).Methodology The study was designed as an action research project. To facilitate triangulation, three types of data were collected: 1. student questionnaires, 2. interviews with the teacher and six case study students, and 3. texts written by the case study students. The teacher reviewed the manuscript.Findings In line with AT, findings focused on how the teacher oriented to the TLL project and the tensions which arose during its implementation. Tensions were located both within the ESL activity system and between the ESL-FSL activity systems.Originality/Value To our knowledge, this study is the first to analyze the complexity of implementing TLL exchanges from an AT perspective. The study highlights how competing discourses within language teaching (multivocality) inhibited the implementation of the TLL project and foregrounds the role of transformative agency in regard to the teacher.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it