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Record W4414876234 · doi:10.18806/tesl.v42i2/1429

The Entry-Level Workplace for Newcomers

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Christine Doe, Scott Roy Douglas, Liying Cheng

Bibliographic record

VenueTESL Canada Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusUniversity of British ColumbiaMount Saint Vincent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDeskillingTheme (computing)ImmigrationPower (physics)Key (lock)

Abstract

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This study explored intercultural communication in entry-level workplace settings through the stories told by 25 newcomers about their experiences working in the tourism, hospitality, food services, and office-related sectors, from three locations across Canada. Using theme and pattern analysis, we identified two broad categories: workplace community and customer communication. Based on the stories, employers/supervisors and co-workers were inclusionary or exclusionary in training and communicating with the participants. Stories including customers were primarily transactional, with communication focused on customer needs. Across all the stories, elements of power and positioning emerged as key features to control and shape the newcomers’ entry and experience in the labour market through gendered deskilling and disempowerment in communication. Opportunities for equitable communication were with people who also had an immigrant background. The stories further showcased strategies the participants employed to achieve successful communication by practicing key phrases, learning vocabulary, and advocating for themselves when communicating with a difficult interlocutor. Implications are discussed, highlighting the need for language training for newcomers with a focus on practicing self-advocacy skills and how to navigate communicating with adverse interlocutors. Cette étude a exploré la communication interculturelle sur le lieu de travail d’employés au niveau d’entrée à travers les récits de 25 nouveaux arrivants sur leurs expériences de travail dans les secteurs du tourisme, de l’hôtellerie, de la restauration et du travail de bureau, dans trois villes du Canada. L’analyse des thèmes et des modèles nous a permis d’identifier deux grandes categories : la communauté sur le lieu de travail et la communication avec les clients. Selon les récits, les employeurs/superviseurs et les collègues étaient inclusifs ou discriminatoires dans la formation et la communication avec les participants. Les récits concernant les clients étaient principalement transactionnels, la communication étant axée sur les tâches à accomplir pour répondre aux besoins des clients. Dans tous les récits, des éléments de pouvoir et de positionnement ont émergé comme des éléments clés pour contrôler et façonner l’accès au marché du travail et l’expérience des nouveaux arrivants au sein de ce marché par le biais d’une déqualification genrée et d’une perte d’autonomie dans la communication. Les opportunités de communication équitable se sont présentées avec des personnes également issues de l’immigration. Les récits mettent également en évidence les stratégies employées par les participants pour assurer une communication réussie : en pratiquant des phrases clés, en apprenant du vocabulaire et en s’affirmant lorsqu’ils communiquent avec un interlocuteur difficile. Les implications sont discutées, soulignant la nécessité d’une formation linguistique pour les nouveaux arrivants, axée sur la pratique des compétences d’affirmation de soi et sur la communication avec des interlocuteurs défavorables.

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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 categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.849
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
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.278 · 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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