An ESL language learning community for prospective students: spouses of international students at Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Abstract
IntroductionBackground and the purpose of the study Sometime last year I met Mary (pseudonym), a woman from southern Asia, and we had a chat.Although I already knew that she came with her husband, a post-doctoral fellow at Memorial University ofNewfoundland (MUN), and that she stays at home, I was surprised to knowthat she was unhappy to be at home all the time.However, she had no choice.It was even more surprising for me to know she has her Bachelor's Degree in Business and had worked for an international company, but she could not study here since she had done poorly in the English as a second language test.I used to believe that international women like her became housewives because they had no higher education in their home country.I was wrong!I feel so sorry for her and this aroused my curiosity about the status of spouses of other international students.From my work as an instructor for a reading course for the spouses and my personal contacts with international students, I had chance to find out.Interestingly, I found that the husbands as spouses of international students usually try all means to get admission and manage to further their schooling.Nonetheless, Mary is not alone.There are many wives who came to St. John's with a high level education background but had to give up the opportunity of further education.Some stay at home with loneliness; some get j obs which are not appropriate for their education.The longer they are away from higher education, the more chances they miss; the longer they stay at home, the more isolated they feel; and the more unhappy they are, the more likely it is that their husbands' academic achievement would be affected which may result in their leaving for somewhere else.What is more, these women's voices will not be heard since they are often isolated and have no connection with other women in similar situations (Gilligan, 1982) and thus unable to share their feelings with others.university internationally (Koenderman, 2000).In contrast, providing the necessary support to facilitate the adjustment of their spouses will not only help retain current international students, but will also attract students and scholars with families abroad to come here.In addition, husbands of international students will not be excluded to join the language learning community if they have the same needs.To help fulfill the university' s recruitment plans and establish its reputation in internationally marketing, the study will provide policymakers and educators with meaningful information in the area of ESL services for spouses of international students.Definition of key terms International students refer to students who come from a foreign country and who are not Canadian citizens.In this study, they include not only undergraduates but also graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.Learning community is a setting that learners get together and learn together in an informal way.With help from the outside society, they share knowledge, make use of experience, and provide support to each other.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".