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Record W4405099136 · doi:10.22215/etd/2024-16229

Individual Variation in French-L2 Spelling Ability

2024· dissertation· en· W4405099136 on OpenAlexaffabout
Kenda Bailey Parsons

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicSecond Language Acquisition and Learning
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpellingVariation (astronomy)LinguisticsPsychologyNatural language processingComputer sciencePhilosophyPhysics

Abstract

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Canadian French-as-a-Second-Language (FSL) programmes teach students how to read and write in French with the goal of bilingualism.However, students are not consistently attaining a level of French equivalent to native French speakers (Genesee, 1987) and many graduates do not retain their French knowledge (Turcotte, 2019).To explore this pattern in greater depth, 92 graduates of Canadian FSL programmes completed an online survey.Participants were assessed on receptive vocabulary, print exposure (PE), morphological awareness (MA), and general spelling ability, in both English and French.English vocabulary, PE, and MA accounted for 35% of the variance in overall English spelling.French vocabulary and MA accounted for 28% of the variance in overall French spelling, but French PE was not a significant predictor.Finally, print exposure in English was not correlated with French spelling outcomes.These results suggest that morphological awareness is a key metalinguistic skill to supporting French spelling beyond graduation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.933
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2750.004

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.317 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

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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Published2024
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