Embracing Open Science in Applied Linguistics: Graduate Students’ Perspectives
This project site contains a pre-print for a commentary / forum piece. The abstract is as follow: In the field of Applied Linguistics, calls for increasing Open Science practices, with the aim of promoting more transparent, reproducible, and replicable science, are regularly heard from established researchers (e.g. Godfroid & Hui 2020; Loewen & Godfroid 2020; Marsden 2020; Marsden & Plonsky 2018). At the same time, perspectives from the next generation of researchers, graduate students, appear to be lacking. This forum piece takes the first steps towards including graduate students in the conversation by discussing what Open Science means to this community. We illustrate how students can take advantage of the movement and how programs can better prepare students to embrace Open Science practices early in their career. Specifically, we reflect on three Open Science practices, pre-registration, open data, and open materials, and call for a more systematic training and incentive structure for these practices in graduate programs and in hiring and promotion policies.