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Record W4415358015 · doi:10.5539/elt.v18n11p53

Grammar Translation Method and Neurolinguistics Analysis in Level B1 of Higher Education

2025· article· W4415358015 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Marcela Patricia Gonzalez Robalino, Janneth Alexandra Caisaguano Villa, Maritza De Lourdes Chavez Aguagallo, Lorena Del Pilar Solis Viteri

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language Teaching · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicForeign Language Teaching Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGrammarActive listeningPoint (geometry)Teaching methodHigher educationEnglish grammarProcess (computing)Qualitative researchPhrase structure rules

Abstract

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This research aims to explain how Ecuadorian students of higher education learn English. The grammar-translation method helps Spanish-speaking students learn English more efficiently. These students try to connect their native language with the second language based on what they want to express, and this connection deals with neurolinguistics. The teacher must provide an efficient explanation so that the students can develop an activity, which is why the grammar-translation method was an important part of the learning process. When the students got the idea of the grammar point, they could develop language skills like reading, listening and producing the language by writing and speaking. Therefore, grammar translation is just the first step in teaching development. This process was applied with Level B1 students of Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, who could improve their knowledge in using English as a second language and being sure about what they understood, the students could demonstrate what they learned through written and spoken reports. This work was based on qualitative and quantitative method, the analysis of the grammar points presented in level B1 topics and the examples applied both in English and Spanish. It also explains how the students developed the activities and the results they achieved. The real point is what the students think and feel about learning English by translation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.399
Teacher spread0.370 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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