Chinese EFL Graduate Students’ Academic Literacy Development: A Case Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Academic literacy development has become a research focus in recent years. Even though many studies have been conducted in ESL contexts, relatively fewer studies can be found in China, which has a large EFL population. Chinese EFL graduate students must develop their academic literacy to enable their academic success and contribute to the global academic communities as potential members. This study explores factors influencing the academic literacy practices of three Chinese EFL graduate students in two Chinese universities through a qualitative case study. By examining individual students’ personal experiences, this study shows academic literacy development is a complex dynamic process influenced not only by students’ English proficiency, but also by many other factors, such as key players in their academic life, their identities, and individual agency. Implications for language educators and administrators are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".