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Record W4403430585 · doi:10.1080/09658416.2024.2412055

Teacher content-language awareness in Canadian immersion teacher education programs

2024· article· en· W4403430585 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueLanguage Awareness · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsUniversity of AlbertaMcGill University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsMetalinguisticsImmersion (mathematics)PsychologyPedagogyTeacher educationContent (measure theory)Sheltered instructionTeaching methodMathematics educationLanguage educationComprehension approachVocabulary development

Abstract

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Research demonstrates that content, language, and literacy integration is challenging for teachers working in content-based instructional contexts such as immersion and Content and Language Integrated Learning. Although teacher preparation programs for content-based instruction contexts exist, it is unclear whether and how they help pre-/in-service teachers acquire the knowledge and awareness they need to be effective. In recent years, scholars have lamented that research has ignored immersion teacher education and that teachers and teacher educators do not yet fully understand the knowledge base that immersion teachers require. This article reports on an exploratory study that included an examination of web-based program descriptions, course outlines, focus groups with course instructors (N = 11), and teacher candidates (N = 29) to compare immersion teacher education programs at Canadian universities with the goal of better understanding how they develop learners’ Teacher Content-Language Awareness (TCLA) and what challenges they face. Findings include the urgent need to establish general guidelines for content-based teacher education programs as well as the need to include criticality as a fundamental element to all TCLA domains.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.480
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.253 · 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