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Record W4399455546 · doi:10.18806/tesl.v40i2/1395

Breaking More than the Ice

2023· article· en· W4399455546 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Rebecca Schmor

Bibliographic record

VenueTESL Canada Journal · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Plurilingualism has populated the intersection of theory and pedagogy with practices that support the inclusion of diverse linguistic and cultural identities in language education. In some educational contexts, such as English for Academic Purposes (EAP), plurilingual practices can be met with resistance due to systemic target-language-only beliefs and approaches. This article aims to resist monolingualism in EAP by detailing the benefits of incorporating identity-based icebreaker activities within a plurilingual framework. Using an action research methodology, this article draws on class recordings, lesson plans, and observation notes to analyze the implementation of a series of identity-based icebreakers in an online EAP course at a Canadian university. Findings show that the systematic use of identity-based icebreakers afforded affirmations of plurilingual identities in class, while coinciding with the emergence of vulnerability, community, and criticality. This article contributes to contextualized understandings of the use of plurilingual pedagogical strategies in a traditionally monolingual teaching context, suggesting that even micro activities can have an impact on linguistic and cultural inclusion in language education. Le plurilinguisme se situe à l’intersection de la théorie et de la pédagogie avec des pratiques qui soutiennent l’inclusion de diverses identités linguistiques et culturelles dans l’enseignement des langues. Dans certains contextes éducatifs, tels que l’anglais sur objectifs académiques (AOA), les pratiques plurilingues peuvent se heurter à une certaine résistance en raison de croyances et d’approches systémiques axées sur l’utilisation exclusive de la langue cible. Cet article vise à résister au monolinguisme dans le contexte de l’AOA en détaillant les avantages de l’intégration d’activités brise-glace basées sur l’identité dans un cadre plurilingue. En utilisant une méthodologie de recherche-action, cet article s’appuie sur des enregistrements de classe, des plans de cours et des notes d’observation pour analyser la mise en oeuvre d’une série d’activités briseglace basées sur l’identité dans un cours d’AOA en ligne dans une université canadienne. Les résultats montrent que l’utilisation systématique de brise-glace basés sur l’identité a permis d’affirmer les identités plurilingues en classe, tout en coïncidant avec l’émergence de la vulnérabilité, de l’esprit de communauté et de l’esprit critique. Cet article contribue à la compréhension contextualisée de l’utilisation de stratégies pédagogiques plurilingues dans un contexte d’enseignement traditionnellement monolingue et suggère que même de courtes activités peuvent avoir un impact sur l’inclusion linguistique et culturelle dans l’enseignement des langues.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.345
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.075
GPT teacher head0.453
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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
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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