QRPs in applied linguistics

• Collaborators: Tove Larsson,Luke Plonsky, Merja Kytö, & Kate Wood

• https://sites.google.com/view/qrp-humanities/home

• Aim: a multi-year collaboration to better understand questionable research practices in applied linguistics

• Projects include:

  • Creation of QRP taxonomy

  • Survey of QRPs within the quantitative humanities

  • Creation of teaching resources about QRPs

Books

• • Sterling, S., & Plonsky, L. (under contract). Meta-research in applied linguistics. Routledge. New York, USA.

  • Uebel, E., Kronenberg, F., & Sterling, S. (Eds.), (in press). Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. New York, NY: Springer Publishing. Website

Journal Articles and book chapters

• • Sterling, S (forthcoming). Research ethics in open science within applied linguistics. In Plonksy, L. (Ed). Open Science in Applied Linguistics. John Benjamins

  • D'Amico, M., & Sterling, S. (under review). Understanding student (a)motivation towards learning a language: Students' perspectives on continued language study. In Uebel, E., Kronenberg, F., & Sterling, S. (Eds.), Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

  • Wood, M., Sterling, S., Larsson, T., Plonsky, L., Kytö, M., Yaw, K. (under review). Researchers training researchers: Ethics training in Applied Linguistics.

  • Larsson, T., Plonsky, L., Sterling, S., Kytö, M., Yaw, K., Wood, M. (in press). On the frequency, prevalence, and perceived severity of Questionable Research Practices. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

  • Sterling, S. (in press). Research ethics and community engaged scholarship. In P. I., De Costa, A., Rabie-Ahmed, & C., Cinaglia (Eds.), Ethical issues in applied linguistics scholarship. John Benjamins.

  • Plonsky, L., Larsson, T., Sterling, S., Kytö, M., Yaw, K., & Wood, M. (In press). Developing a taxonomy of ethical decisions in applied linguistics research. In P. I., De Costa, A., Rabie-Ahmed, & C., Cinaglia (Eds.), Ethical issues in applied linguistics scholarship. John Benjamins.

  • Yaw, K., Andringa, S., Gass, S., Hancock, G., Isbell, D., Kim, J., Kytö, M., Larsson, T., Plonsky, L., Sterling, S., & Wood, M. (in press). Research in progress: Discussions on the past, present, and future of quantitative research ethics in applied linguistics. Language Teaching.

  • Yaw, K., Plonsky, L., Larsson, T., Sterling, S., & Kytö, M. (2023). Timeline: Research Ethics in Applied Linguistics. Language Teaching.

  • Sterling, S., Plonsky, L., Larsson, Kytö, M., Yaw, K. (2023). Introducing and illustrating the Delphi method for applied linguistics research. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 2(1), 1-10.

  • De Costa, P., Sterling, S., Lee, J., Li, W., Rawal, W. (2021). Research tasks on ethics in applied linguistics. Language Teaching. 54(1), 58-70.

  • Sterling, S. (2018). Investigating the complexity of consent forms in ESL research. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science. 4(2), 154-173.

  • Sterling, S., & De Costa, P. (2018). Ethical Applied Linguistics Research. In Phakiti, A., De Costa, P., Plonksy, L., Starfield, S. (Eds). Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Sterling, S., & Loewen, S. (2018). Games. In Liontas, J. (Ed). TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Sterling, S., & Gass, S. (2017). Exploring the boundaries of research ethics: Perceptions of Ethics and Ethical Behaviors in Classroom-Based Applied Linguistics Research. System, 70, 50-62.

  • Gass, S., & Sterling, S. (2017). Ethics in ISLA. In Loewen, S., & Sato, M. (Eds). The Routlege Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition. New York: Routledge.