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

doi:10.1177/01427237221096087

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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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 language	English
Journal	First Language
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221096087
State	Accepted/In press - 2022

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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.

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Keywords

Bias
cross-cultural research
diversity
meta-science
prioritization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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