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Linguicism? English as the Gatekeeper in South Korea: A Qualitative Study about Mother\u27s Perspectives and Involvement in Their Child\u27s English Education
The rising demand to learn English has become a common phenomenon in many parts of the world. South Korea is no exception. English has become the most important foreign language in a largely monolingual society that rarely uses English in its daily context (J.S.-Y. Park, 2009). English has gained high status since the Korean War (1950-1953) in the Korean context (Grant & Lee, 2010). Education policies in the 1990s further strengthened its stance boosting the âEnglish feverâ. Because English stands as the gatekeeper to college admission, employment and promotion, Koreans invest heavily into English learning. But the financial expenditure of English education differs along the socioeconomic spectrum, creating inequality. Such inequalities have been referred as the English Divide âwhere English speakers have more power and access to resources while the non-English speaker are disadvantaged in many waysâ (Tsuda, 2008). Learning English begins at a young age in Korea. For young students, mothers are the managers who decide where and how to get more English education. Korean mothers have been known for their fervor in their pursuit of their childâs academic success contributing to the competitive environment that aims for high academic achievement. In this study, I take a look into how mothers are contributing to reinforcing the stature of English. This study investigates 10 Korean mothers on their perspectives of English and how their perspectives influence their involvement in their childâs English education. Findings reveal that social demands, the effect of globalization and competition among students and mothers prompts them to closely monitor their childâs English education. Conversing with other mothers provide insightful feedback about hagwon and where their child is at compared to others but also creates anxiety and further competition
Knowledge Distillation with Adversarial Samples Supporting Decision Boundary
Many recent works on knowledge distillation have provided ways to transfer
the knowledge of a trained network for improving the learning process of a new
one, but finding a good technique for knowledge distillation is still an open
problem. In this paper, we provide a new perspective based on a decision
boundary, which is one of the most important component of a classifier. The
generalization performance of a classifier is closely related to the adequacy
of its decision boundary, so a good classifier bears a good decision boundary.
Therefore, transferring information closely related to the decision boundary
can be a good attempt for knowledge distillation. To realize this goal, we
utilize an adversarial attack to discover samples supporting a decision
boundary. Based on this idea, to transfer more accurate information about the
decision boundary, the proposed algorithm trains a student classifier based on
the adversarial samples supporting the decision boundary. Experiments show that
the proposed method indeed improves knowledge distillation and achieves the
state-of-the-arts performance.Comment: Accepted to AAAI 201
Quasi-Normal Modes of a Natural AdS Wormhole in Einstein-Born-Infeld Gravity
We study the matter perturbations of a new AdS wormhole in (3+1)-dimensional
Einstein-Born-Infeld gravity, called "natural wormhole", which does not require
exotic matters. We discuss the stability of the perturbations by numerically
computing the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a massive scalar field in the
wormhole background. We investigate the dependence of quasi-normal frequencies
on the mass of scalar field as well as other parameters of the wormhole. It is
found that the perturbations are always stable for the wormhole geometry which
has the general relativity (GR) limit when the scalar field mass m satisfies a
certain, tachyonic mass bound m^2 > m^2_* with m^2_* < 0, analogous to the
Breitenlohner-Freedman (BF) bound in the global-AdS space, m^2_BF = 3 Lambda/4.
It is also found that the BF-like bound m^2_* shifts by the changes of the
cosmological constant Lambda or angular-momentum number l, with a level
crossing between the lowest complex and pure-imaginary modes for zero angular
momentum l = 0. Furthermore, it is found that the unstable modes can also have
oscillatory parts as well as non-oscillatory parts depending on whether the
real and imaginary parts of frequencies are dependent on each other or not,
contrary to arguments in the literature. For wormhole geometries which do not
have the GR limit, the BF-like bound does not occur and the perturbations are
stable for arbitrary tachyonic and non-tachyonic masses, up to a critical mass
m^2_c > 0 where the perturbations are completely frozen.Comment: Added comments and references, Accepted in EPJ
Knowledge Transfer via Distillation of Activation Boundaries Formed by Hidden Neurons
An activation boundary for a neuron refers to a separating hyperplane that
determines whether the neuron is activated or deactivated. It has been long
considered in neural networks that the activations of neurons, rather than
their exact output values, play the most important role in forming
classification friendly partitions of the hidden feature space. However, as far
as we know, this aspect of neural networks has not been considered in the
literature of knowledge transfer. In this paper, we propose a knowledge
transfer method via distillation of activation boundaries formed by hidden
neurons. For the distillation, we propose an activation transfer loss that has
the minimum value when the boundaries generated by the student coincide with
those by the teacher. Since the activation transfer loss is not differentiable,
we design a piecewise differentiable loss approximating the activation transfer
loss. By the proposed method, the student learns a separating boundary between
activation region and deactivation region formed by each neuron in the teacher.
Through the experiments in various aspects of knowledge transfer, it is
verified that the proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art.Comment: Accepted to AAAI 201
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