Community-set goals are needed to increase diversity in language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)

Naomi Havron, Camila Scaff, Kasia Hitczenko, Alejandrina Cristia

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Abstract

This commentary argues that to increase diversity in language acquisition research, the field should define specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-defined goals, and prioritize solutions based on their importance, tractability, and neglectedness, ideally in collaboration with a variety of other agents outside the research community.

Original languageEnglish
JournalFirst Language
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: A.C. acknowledges financial and institutional support from Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-16-DATA-0004 ACLEW, ANR-17-EURE-0017, ANR-14-CE30-0003 MechELex); the J. S. McDonnell Foundation Understanding Human Cognition Scholar Award; and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ExELang, Grant agreement No. 101001095). We are grateful to Georgia Loukatou and Marvin Lavechin for comments.

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.

Keywords

  • Bias
  • cross-cultural research
  • diversity
  • meta-science
  • prioritization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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