Using OASIS as a resource at research-practice interfaces
Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS; oasis-database.org) is a free database that provides one-page, non-technical summaries of published language-related research. The database makes research findings accessible to all, improving interfaces between research and practice.
In the first half of this workshop, I will describe the rationales and growth of the database and lay out some of the unique characteristics of good summaries that helps broker between researchers and educators. Examples will be given of how OASIS summaries have been used in teacher professional development events with school teachers of French, German, and Spanish in England. I will discuss the teachers’ views about the summaries and their attitudes to research in general, before and after their professional development.
In the second half of the workshop, we will then read and discuss a subset of the summaries that are relevant to the theme of “teacher identity”. Participants will also be supported in considering ways in which OASIS summaries might be used in their own contexts, and how they might go about facilitating this.
Note: This workshop is especially suited for language teachers and teacher educators, including working in foreign languages and German as a Second Language (DaZ)
IBZ (Emil-Figge-Str. 59) Room: to be announced
Dr. Emma Marsden (University of York – UK)
Having taught French, Spanish, and English as foreign languages — in schools in England and Chile at the start of her career, Emma Marsden is currently professor of second language education in the Department of Education at the University of York. With her colleagues and students, Emma has produced approximately 70 publications in the areas of language learning and teaching and open scholarship. She directs the open research repositories iris-database.org and oasis-database.org, and from 2015 to 2022, was Associate and then Journal Editor of Language Learning. Between 2018-2023 she directed the government’s Department for Education’s National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy, now known as 'Language-Driven Pedagogy' (https://ldpedagogy.org/).
