Our next event will feature our very own Tim Hampson and Jim McKinley to talk about systematic review. At LTRF, we are all about breaking down barrieres between academia and teaching. One suggested to do that is to use systematic review to provide easily digestible findings for teachers. In this talk, we’ll be looking at potential innovations in how that can be achieved.
Time: 4/12/2024 6–7:30pm
Location: Room C.3.11—UCL IoE, 20 Bedford Way.
Future directions in systematic review for applied linguistics: AI and decolonisation
Systematic reviews are increasingly prevalent in applied linguistics research, with the potential to make findings more accessible and impactful for both teachers and researchers. Understanding systematic review methodologies is essential for anyone in the field, as encountering such studies is becoming more common.
In this talk, we critically explore two areas that we see as important for the future of systematic review. The first is the application of generative artificial intelligence to systematic review. This has potential to speed up systematic review and make it democratise access to teams without the resources traditionally required. However, it also comes with risks of false information. The second area is a need to decolonise the practice of systematic review, an area that we argue can propagate ways of knowing that often ignore sociolinguistic issues and oppression.
This talk is designed for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of systematic reviews in applied linguistics. No prior knowledge is required, and participants will come away with a better critical perspective of innovative methodologies.