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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 OpenAlex

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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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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)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.354
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.029
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