How Should the Teaching of Grammar Be Conceptualized in the Education of Multilingual Learners?
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Abstract
This paper analyses the role of formal grammar teaching in the education of multilingual learners from migrant backgrounds. It is argued that an instructional focus on grammar teaching, conceptualized as one component of language awareness, will be most effective when it is pursued in the teaching of academic subjects across the curriculum and also integrated with a broader focus on promoting active literacy engagement. School language policies focused on developing language awareness and promoting literacy engagement should minimally include six sets of instructional strategies that respond to opportunity gaps experienced by multilingual students. These instructional responses include scaffold comprehension and production of language, reinforce academic language across the curriculum, engage students’ multilingual repertoires, maximize literacy engagement, connect with students’ lives, and affirm students’ identities. The ways in which the teaching of grammar relates to these instructional strategies in the development of school-based language policies are discussed.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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