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Record W4409519188 · doi:10.5539/ells.v15n2p11

Teach Us English But Without Its Cultural Values

2025· article· en· W4409519188 on OpenAlex
Khalid Al-Seghayer

Why this work is in the frame

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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

VenueEnglish Language and Literature Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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As English becomes the global lingua franca, the debate intensifies over whether it should be taught it with or without its cultural context, particularly in non-Western countries. Critics fear cultural imperialism and the erosion of local identities, while proponents argue that language and culture are inseparable, and teaching English devoid of its cultural context undermines meaningful communication and intercultural competence. This article explores the arguments for and against cultural integration in English language teaching, backed by recent studies and real-world examples. It also underscores the benefits of culturally responsive teaching, which enhances linguistic proficiency and intercultural understanding while safeguarding local identities. Practical strategies for balancing cultural sensitivity with global communication needs are proposed, emphasizing the importance of fostering intercultural competence. The article concludes by asserting that teaching English rooted in its cultural context is essential for preparing learners to navigate effectively in an interconnected world.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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 score0.421
Threshold uncertainty score0.597

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.005
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)0.0000.000

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.429
Teacher spread0.405 · 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