TY - JOUR
T1 - Circular applied linguistics
T2 - A model for impactful, inclusive, and sustainable research
AU - Jenks, Christopher J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). International Journal of Applied Linguistics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2024/10/7
Y1 - 2024/10/7
N2 - Applied linguists are committed to the investigation of language and real-world problems. While this commitment leads to greater awareness of societal issues within the discipline, there are increasing pressures from societies and academic institutions to ensure that scholarship is available to, or has direct value for, the individuals and communities that are the target of our investigations. It is indeed difficult to enact social change through research when scholarship is not tailored to, and carried out with, the very individuals and communities that are being investigated. This paper attends to this opportunity by asking the following question. How do we engage in more impactful, inclusive, and sustainable research that explicitly involves the individuals and communities that we investigate? I introduce circular applied linguistics to consider the ways in which the discipline can be more impactful, inclusive, and sustainable in its research. I show how circular applied linguistics is based on the mutual benefit and shared knowledge of the researcher and the researched, creating a culture of ethical, open science, and leading to reflexive scholarship, that has greater relevance to societies.
AB - Applied linguists are committed to the investigation of language and real-world problems. While this commitment leads to greater awareness of societal issues within the discipline, there are increasing pressures from societies and academic institutions to ensure that scholarship is available to, or has direct value for, the individuals and communities that are the target of our investigations. It is indeed difficult to enact social change through research when scholarship is not tailored to, and carried out with, the very individuals and communities that are being investigated. This paper attends to this opportunity by asking the following question. How do we engage in more impactful, inclusive, and sustainable research that explicitly involves the individuals and communities that we investigate? I introduce circular applied linguistics to consider the ways in which the discipline can be more impactful, inclusive, and sustainable in its research. I show how circular applied linguistics is based on the mutual benefit and shared knowledge of the researcher and the researched, creating a culture of ethical, open science, and leading to reflexive scholarship, that has greater relevance to societies.
KW - communication in the professions
KW - language and education in multilingual settings
KW - multilingualism
KW - sociolinguistics
KW - الكلمات المفتاحيةعلم الاجتماع اللغوي؛ التواصل في المهن؛ اللغة والتعليم في البيئات المتعددة اللغات؛ التعدد اللغوي
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U2 - 10.1111/ijal.12628
DO - 10.1111/ijal.12628
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85205663365
SN - 0802-6106
JO - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (United Kingdom)
JF - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (United Kingdom)
ER -