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mother tongue + 2

2020· other· en· W6985226212 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueLeiden Repository (Leiden University) · 2020
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicComputational Physics and Python Applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFirst languageSafeguardingForeign languageEuropean unionMember statesLanguage policyDiversity (politics)Quarter (Canadian coin)
DOInot available

Abstract

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The European Union (EU) is founded on the principle of ‘unity in diversity’, that is the diversity of cultures, customs and beliefs, and languages. Today around 445 million people, who together speak over 80 languages, find their home in the 27 member states of the EU. As the EU greatly values its rich cultural and linguistic diversity, it is committed to safeguarding its 24 official languages and promoting the learning of multiple languages in the Member States of the EU. One of the main goals of the EU’s language policies and initiatives is for every citizen to be able to speak two languages in addition to their mother tongue. This goal, first formulated in 1995, is also known as the ‘mother tongue + 2’ formula. In the 2002 Barcelona European Council, the EU called for the improvement of education in order to give students the chance to develop language skills in two foreign languages in school. In reality, however, not all citizens are convinced of the merits of speaking various languages, which shows that linguistic diversity is not yet the norm. Besides that, publications of the European Commission show that only a quarter of EU citizens are able to hold a conversation in two foreign languages. As Member States of the EU have the right to decide on their own language policy due to the principle of subsidiarity, the influence of the EU’s language policy is limited. For this reason, the aim of this thesis is to investigate the reality of compliance to the ‘mother tongue + 2’ formula through the analysation of national language policies and language learning in two Member States, namely the Netherlands and Hungary. By conducting qualitative literature review this thesis found that in both countries the education system plays an important role in the acquisition of foreign language knowledge. However, in both countries a lot of improvements can be made in order to assure that every citizen learns two languages besides their mother tongue.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.349
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.178 · 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