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 languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)765-769
Number of pages5
JournalFirst Language
Volume42
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022

Keywords

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

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Education
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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