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Record W4401400444 · doi:10.5430/wjel.v14n6p432

Exploring the Role of English Literature in Developing Cultural Competence among ESL Students

2024· article· en· W4401400444 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 · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Practices and Challenges
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSociocultural evolutionVocabularyPedagogyLiteracyCultural competencePsychologyLanguage educationMathematics educationLinguisticsSociology

Abstract

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The study of English literature is a fascinating and effective technique for teaching English. It combines language instruction with literary analysis, contextualizing language, raising cultural awareness, honing critical thinking skills, expanding vocabulary and knowledge, boosting interpersonal skills, and enhancing writing ability. Teachers can enhance students' learning experience in English as a second language by employing these strategies: selecting appropriate texts, integrating reading practices, designing literacy exercises, assessing aesthetic aspects, and creating writing projects. The use of English literature in language studies fosters students' language development in relevant and real-world contexts, leading to a greater understanding of the language and its cultural nuances. Furthermore, culture affects values, beliefs, rituals, and behaviors and is reflected in language, dress, food, materials, and social institutions of a group (“Purnell, 2002”) qtd in (Sharifi et al., 2019). This understanding underscores the importance of integrating cultural elements into language instruction to provide students with a holistic view of language and its sociocultural context. Additionally, this approach allows us to examine how literature and language resources portray people of various origins, identities, demographics, and competences, seamlessly integrating diverse perspectives into the educational framework. This research involves investigating how a more varied educational environment affects student motivation, self-esteem, and the ability to communicate across cultures.

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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)0.001
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 score0.220
Threshold uncertainty score0.323

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.305 · 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