The perspectives of student and teachers on speaking EFL classrooms
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study investigated the beliefs of teachers and students about speaking skill in EFL classes. The focus of the study was on the possible problems in speaking and how to deal with them, 100 students and 50 English language teachers at ten different high schools in Bursa, Turkey, participated in this study as subjects. They were given questionnaires and interviews were conducted with 20 students and 10 teachers. The data were gathered during the spring quarter of the 2002-03 academic year. The results revealed that both students and teachers found speaking, as the most important skill although the most frequent skill was grammar in language classes. Speaking was also found be to be the most difficult skill for the students. The findings divulged that there have been various problems related to speaking classes such as anxiety, lack of audiovisual materials, natural input, the effect of mother tongue, the size and the arrangement of the class. Since the findings in this study are limited to ten specific teaching situations in ten different high schools, it may not be completely true to generalize the results of this research. However, it may give a general idea about the subjects' beliefs and needs in speaking.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it