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Translocal Community-Based Language Learning: A Digitally Mediated Online Travel Fair for Korean Language Learners

2025· article· en· W7164413387 on OpenAlex
Jeonghye Son, Jeesun Park

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Korean Language in America · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInternational Student and Expatriate Challenges
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAffordanceInterpersonal communicationComputer-mediated communicationValue (mathematics)Interpersonal relationshipLanguage proficiencyQualitative researchInterpersonal interactionQualitative property

Abstract

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ABSTRACT This pilot study examines a digitally mediated Community-Based Language Learning (CBLL) project—the Online Travel Fair—implemented across multiple North American universities to connect students from geographically distant institutions. Through synchronous virtual interactions simulating real-world travel-planning scenarios, participants designed multimodal brochures, delivered promotional pitches, and engaged in extended booth conversations, thereby using Korean purposefully across informational, persuasive, and interpersonal genres. Data from survey responses and qualitative feedback indicate that interacting with peers of comparable proficiency from other universities increased learners’ confidence in speaking Korean with unfamiliar interlocutors and fostered a sense of belonging to translocal communities of practice. Students emphasized not only the affordance of practicing Korean in meaningful, low-stakes contexts but also the value of forming interpersonal connections with peers beyond their home institutions, expressing a strong interest in continued cross-campus engagement. These findings suggest that digitally mediated CBLL can mitigate logistical and geographical constraints commonly associated with traditional community-engaged learning, while preserving its core pedagogical benefits of authenticity, reciprocity, and social participation.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score0.988

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.342
Teacher spread0.318 · 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