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Open Science in Applied Linguistics (Colloquium Overview)

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Ali H. Al-Hoorie at Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Phil Hiver at Florida State University
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Open Science has received a lot of attention in various disciplines, and recently within applied linguistics. Open science aims to make the different stages of research transparent and accessible. This includes open, verifiable methodology that allows replicability and increases trust in research findings. It also includes open access so that disadvantaged populations, such as scholars from the Global South, can read research output. It further includes making research findings accessible to the end consumer who is in many cases the general public. This colloquium addresses all these different dimensions of open science. One presentation deals with open research methods, how to achieve openness, and its role in enhancing rigor. As open “science” is typically associated with quantitative methodology and its logic, another presentation tackles this issue from a qualitative perspective. Two other presentations discuss journal open access, one in relation to support and funding from universities and the other focuses on academic associations (specifically AAAL) taking the initiative to establish their own journals. Another presentation gives an overview of a recent initiative, the Postprint Pledge, that aims to circumvent paywalls through legal means. One final presentation addresses the accessibility of research to the public community at large. At a fundamental level, the underlying purpose of this colloquium is to enhance inclusion, diversity, and equity.
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Open Science
in Applied Linguistics
Colloquium Overview
Organizers:
Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Saudi TESOL Association
hoorie_ali@hotmail.com
Phil Hiver
Florida State University, USA
phiver@fsu.edu
19 March 2023
AAAL, Portland, Oregon, USA
Structure
Part 1: 5-min “lightening” presentations
30 min
Part 2: Q&As panel discussion
30 min
Presentations
1) Ali H. Al-Hoorie & Phil Hiver: "The Postprint Pledge: An applied linguistics initiative"
2) Kara Morgan-Short: "Preregistration and registered reports as open science practices contributing to
replicability in applied linguistics"
3) Miroslaw Pawlak: "Running a successful open-access journal: The case of Studies in Second Language
Learning and Teaching"
4) Luke Plonsky: "AAAL needs to launch its own publishing house"
5) Rachel Showstack: "Accessible research in community and legislative contexts"
6) Meng Liu (recorded): "Open qualitative research: Where we are now and where do we go from here"
Open science: Considerations and issues for TESOL research
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Open science (OS; also known as “open research” and “open scholarship”) refers to various practices to make scientific knowledge openly available, accessible, and reusable. The core purpose of such practices is to open the process of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation, and communication to societal actors within and beyond the traditional scientific community (UNESCO, 2021). Looking across the different areas within TESOL and applied linguistics more broadly, it is clear that OS practices have become more common on the part of individual researchers and journals. For example, while Marsden, Morgan-Short, Thompson, and Abugaber (2018) and Marsden, Morgan-Short, Trofimovich, and Ellis (2018) noted generally low prevalence of replication studies, the number of replications identified from 2010 to 2015 (n = 20) was larger than all located in the period of 1973–1999 (n = 17). Open data and materials have become more common, too, as seen in the widespread use of the instruments and data for research in language studies (IRIS) database (iris-database.org). OS badges now frequently adorn articles in several journals, and journals such as Language Learning have been recognized for adopting a range of support for OS practices, as seen in TOP (Transparency and Openness Promotion) Factor scores (https://topfactor.org, based on the TOP Guidelines, TOP Guidelines Committee, 2015). Given this momentum, we feel that it is time for TESOL researchers to seriously consider the benefits, and potential challenges, of more active, consistent engagement in OS practices. In this article, we focus on four aspects of OS: transparency, preregistration, data and participant protection, and open access.
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