Recent news and activities

OASIS activities, presentations, publications, and mentions

Others citing or talking about OASIS

• The Qatar Foundation International has a page with links to and short descriptions of all OASIS summaries produced in a Georgetown project on Arabic teaching and learning.
• In a 'A two-way information highway' Florencia Henshaw writes about the divide between research-informed pedagogy and pedagogy-informed research.
• This TES interview with Emma Marsden mentions accessible summaries.
• See and hear Inge Alferink talk about OASIS to Russ Mayne on the Evidenced informed ELT pod!
• Helen Aberdeen wrote about OASIS in the ALL's magazine!
• The new Bristol Guide is out and it lists OASIS in its list of useful resources! 
• This paper in the Journal of Language & Social Psychology includes a reference to OASIS: Al-Hoorie, A. H., Hiver, P., Kim, T.-Y., & De Costa, P. I. (in press). The identity crisis in language motivation research. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
• Want to know more about education policy? The Document Summary Service (DSS) provides a monthly digest service that publishes 10 summaries of key education policy and policy-research documents each month, along with general education updates.
• Read about OASIS in the latest issue of The Linguist!
• New journal! The editors of Pedagogical Linguistics, a brand new journal, will be handpicking one article per issue to be summarised for OASIS. The first one is now available.
• New addition! Foreign Language Annals, ACTFL’s academic journal, is now inviting authors to submit an OASIS summary of their work!
• Exciting news: Bimali Indrarathne has won funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund (a strand within the UK Research Councils) to write and use OASIS summaries with English teacher educators in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
• This Language Testing editorial outlines their commitment to new ways of disseminating research including OASIS!
• Read about OASIS in the December issue of the EL Gazette!
• We have two new journals on board! Language & Education and the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism will both be encouraging their authors to write accessible summaries!
• Read about OASIS in a featured story on the AILA website!
• System has announced their continued support of OASIS. Read their statement!
• You can now also find OASIS on the website of the Committeefor Linguistics in Education (CLiE)!
• OASIS featured at the Vocab@Leuven conference!
• OASIS was mentioned by Lourdes Ortega in her talk Publishing Language Education Research at the CLER Centre for Language Education Research at the University of Leeds.
• TESOL Quarterly will now also be asking all authors of new papers to write an accessible summary!
• OASIS was featured in ALLNet, the Association for Language Learning's weekly bulletin!
• The Modern Language Journal has announced their commitment that by 2020 all articles published in the journal will include a one-page, non-technical summary that is accessible to a wide audience via OASIS!
• OASIS can be found in the April / May issue of the Language Educator (member access only).
• OASIS has been mentioned on Talkin’ L2 with Bill VanPatten! For example, in episode 24 with Kara Morgan-Short.
• You can now find OASIS on the FIPLV website!

OASIS presentations to teachers, teacher trainers, & language professionals:    

• Pan, J., Alferink, I., & Marsden, E. (December 2021). Using OASIS summaries to facilitate a dialogue between research and pedagogy (促进二语研究与外语教学的对话：OASIS资源库). The 9th International Symposium on Second Language Acquisition Research in China, Shanghai, China (Online). Powerpoint presentation.
• O’Reilly, D. (2021, March). Introducing and using IRIS and OASIS in MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics projects. Invited online session for MA TESOL and MA Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching students, School of Education, Communication & Society, King's College London.
• Indrarathne, B. (2021, February). Engaging teachers in South Asia with research evidence: Improving English language learning in areas with poor access to resources. Invited online presentation for EFL teachers and teacher trainers, Chongqing University, China.
• Alferink, I. & Marsden, E. (2020, October). Working at the research-practice interface: Drawing on ‘hard evidence’ using OASIS summaries. NCELP Specialist Teacher Day. Online.
• O’Reilly, D. (2020, September). L2 metaphoric competence and English language teaching. Invited online talk for Education and Modern Language students/pre-sessional teachers, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica.
• O’Reilly, D. (2020, August). Introducing and using Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS) in Higher Education. Invited online workshop for pre-sessional MA TESOL students, International Pathway College, University of York.
• NCELP (July 2020). NCELP Hub Day Webinar. 
• O'Reilly, D. (2020, April). Bridging the research-practice divide in second language teaching/learning: Three encounters involving OASIS and IRIS. Invited talk for Department of Education Scholarship Forum, University of York
• O'Reilly, D. (February 2020). Digital, Literacy and Language Roundtable. Invited participant at Carnegie UK Trust and Good Things Foundation event, St Thomas Centre, Manchester.
• NCELP regularly uses OASIS summary in Continued Professional Developement activities with a wide network of teachers. See, for example, this CPD session on grammar.
• Marsden, E. (July 2019). National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP). Association for Language Learning, Initial teacher education and training Summar Seminar, York St John. Powerpoint of presentation
• Marsden, E. (June 2019). Annual conference of the National Association of Language Advisors (NALA). Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Marsden, E. (June 2019). Research informed pedagogy: NCELP and OASIS. Invited plenary at the Annual Chinese Teaching Conference, Confucius Institute UCL.
• Andringa, S., & van Beuningen, C. (May 2019). De rol van onderzoek in de professionalisering van NT2-docenten. Hoe dichten we de kloof tussen onderwijs en onderzoek? Conferentie BVNT2. Powerpoint presentation (in Dutch)
• Marsden, E. (May 2019). Linking research on language learning and teaching with classroom experience: National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP). Benefits of Cognitive Bilingualism Symposium, British Academy. Powerpoint presentation
• O'Reilly, D. (April 2019). Introducing and using OASIS in teaching: Summer schools and short courses. Centre for Global Programmes, University of York. Powerpoint presentation
• Marsden, E. (March 2019). Open Science and Applied Linguistics: Where are we, and where are we heading? Plenary at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. Powerpoint presentation
• Gurzynski-Weiss, L. & Révész, A. (2019). Research trends in TESOL: Reflections on task-based language teaching research. Invited featured talk at the TESOL International Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Müller, L.-M. (December 2018). OASIS Extending the reach of research. Establishing and sustaining a culture of accessible summaries of applied linguistics research. Workshop at the University of Vienna. Powerpoint presentation
• Plonsky, L., & Russell, V., & Marsden, E. (2018, November). Research front and center: Focus on theory and practice. Plenary panel (Moderator: Aleidine Moeller) presented at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), New Orleans, Louisiana (download MS powerpoint file).
• Marsden, E., Plonsky, L., Kasprowicz, R., & McManus, K. (2018, November). Enabling and extending access to L2 research through OASIS. Paper presented at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Müller, L.-M., & Marsden, E. (November 2018). Online and open-access research summaries for the language classroom – the OASIS project. Presentation at the NALDIC conference. Powerpoint presentation
• Müller, L.-M. (July 2018). OASIS Extending the reach of research. Establishing and sustaining a culture of accessible summaries of applied linguistics research. Presentation at the Language Alliance Meeting.
• Marsden, E. & Kasprowicz, R. (June 2018). Invited presentation. Making research into primary language learning accessible: Open Accessible Summaries of Research in Language Studies. Second Language Learning in the Primary Years ESRC funded conference, University College London.

OASIS presentations to academic audiences:

• Alferink, & Marsden, E. (March 2023). Open accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS): A case study in systematically making research findgins more accessible. Unconference 2023: Open Scholarship Practices in Education Research (Online). Watch the 5-minute video.
• Alferink, I. (June 2022). Using OASIS summaries: reconciling direct access to research findings with a need for information brokering. Open Scholarship in Applied Linguistics Symposium (Online).
• Indrarathne, B. (spring 2022). Researching underrepresented research communities: Do they think research findings are useful? Staff seminar. Department of Education, University of York.
• Alferink, I. Marsden, E., & Avery, N. (March 2022). Resourced schemes of work for secondary French, German, and Spanish. Language OER Conference (online) organised by COERLL and OLRC.
• Plonsky, L. (October 2021). The research-practice divide in second language acquisition. Invited talk, for Beijing Foreign Studies University.
• Marsden, E. (September 2021). the push and pull of 'being applied': Research, practice, and policy in foreign language education in England. The plenary Pit Corder lecture at the British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference (9-10 September 2021).
• Alferink, I., Andringa, S., & Marsden, E. (August 2021). Using OASIS summaries to facilitate a dialogue between research and pedagogy. AILA World Congress, Groningen, The Netherlands (Online).
• O’Reilly, D. (2021, April). L2 metaphoric competence and English language teaching. Invited online talk for the Communication & Language (CoLa) Knowledge Exchange Unit, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK.  
• Thompson-Lee, S. & Alferink, I. (March, 2021). Using OASIS summaries to facilitate a dialogue between research and pedagogy. Presentation at The 3rd Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching International Conference. Dubai, UAE (Online). 
• Marsden, E. (June 2020) Open research practices in the language sciences: Materials, data, and findings (IRIS and OASIS). York Open Research, University of York.
• O'Reilly, D. (April 2020). Bridging the research-practice divide in second language teaching/learning: Three encounters involving OASIS and IRIS. Invited talk for Department of Education Scholarship Forum, University of York
• Marsden, E. (May 2019). Linking research on language learning and teaching with classroom experience: National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP). Benefits of Cognitive Bilingualism Symposium, British Academy. Powerpoint presentation
• Marsden, E. (March 2019). Open Science and Applied Linguistics: Where are we, and where are we heading? Plenary at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Meeting, Atlanta.
• Malone, M. & Showstack, R. (March 2019). Presentation on OASIS to the Public Affairs and Engagement Committee (PAEC) at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Meeting, Atlanta.
• Marsden, et al. (September, 2018). OASIS - Extending the reach of research. Presentation at British Association for Applied Linguistic (BAAL) 2018 Conference  (download MS powerpoint file).
• Andringa, S.  & Van Beuningen, C. (September 2018). Presentation. Dutch second and foreign language educators’ engagement with L2 research. EuroSLA conference in Münster, Germany.
• Andringa, S. (June 2018). Presentation. Extending the reach of research: Establishing and sustaining a culture of accessible summaries of applied linguistics research. AILA executive board meeting. Groningen, the Netherlands.
• Marsden, E. & Kasprowicz, R. (June 2018). Invited presentation. Making research into primary language learning accessible: Open Accessible Summaries of Research in Language Studies. Second Language Learning in the Primary Years ESRC funded conference, University College London.
• Plonsky, L. (April 2018). Keynote speaker. Instructed second-language research: Taking a bird's-eye view. International conference on English Language Teaching and Learning, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

OASIS presentations to student audiences:

• Andringa, S. (January 2019). Graduate seminar at LOT Winterschool. Unversity of Amsterdam.
• Plonsky, L. (May 2018). Invited presentation. The SLA-practice interface: What do we know? Where are we going? University de la Sabana, Bogota, Colombia.

Publications & citations:

• Alferink, I. & Marsden, E. (submitted). OASIS: one resource to widen the reach of research in language studies. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. preprint.
• Isbell, D. & Kremmel, B. (2022) Language Testing Special Issue: Open Science Practices in Language Testing and Assessment. Call for Papers.
• Jin et al. (2021). Do research articles with more readable abstracts receive higher online attention? Evidence from Science. Scientrometrics, 126, 8471-8490.
• Chun, D. and Heift, T. (2021) The affordances and challenges of open-access journals: The case of an applied linguistics journal.  In C. Blyth, J. Thoms (Eds.) Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology. pp 183-197. Multilingual Matters. 
• Al-Hoorie, A.H., Hiver, P., Kim, T., & De Costa, P.I. (in press) The identity crisis in language motivation research. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
• Phung, H. et al. (2020). The Multi'ōlelo initiative for language research communication. Second Language Studies, 38(1).
• Marsden, E. J. (2020). Methodological transparency in applied linguistics and its consequences for the quality and scope of research. In J. McKinley, & H. Rose (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (pp. 15-28). Routledge.
• Harding, L. & Winke, P. (2020). Editorial. Language Testing, 37(1).
• Antón, M. (2019). Notes from the editor. The Modern Language Journal, 103(2).
• Marsden, E., Trofimovich, P., & Ellis, N.(2019). [Editorial] Extending the reach of research: Introducing Open Accessible Summaries at Language Learning. Language Learning.
• Marsden, E. (2018). Open science and transparency in applied linguistics. In C. Chapelle (Ed.). The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.