Identity, Politics and Power: Stories of Teaching Language in Quebec
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Language teaching is an inherently political act, and in Québec it is inextricably tied to questions of cultural belonging and national identity. This study explores the experiences of English as a second language (ESL) teachers in French‐medium schools in Québec. Drawing on critical applied linguistics and identity theory, it examines how pre‐service and in‐service ESL teachers navigate the tensions between the teaching of ESL and Québec's language policies. The study restories qualitative interview and survey data to explore three key themes. The resulting stories show how ESL teachers negotiate their professional and linguistic identities as they move through their school environments, demonstrating that in doing so, they often face social isolation and misperceptions about their linguistic identity and affiliation. These findings point to the need for teacher education programs to better prepare pre‐service ESL teachers for these realities by equipping them with strategies that will support their resilience and self‐advocacy.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it