Dissemination of results

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Science to science: After the conclusion of this project, all results and test materials will be available on the project’s homepage. These and supplementary materials will also be available on the Open Science Framework. During the end of year three and year four (i.e. years 2 and 3 of the DOC Fellowship), results from primarily the cross-sectional study are to be disseminated both at smaller conferences (e.g. Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA)) as well as at larger, international conventions (e.g. EUROSLA – the Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association). While this dissertation will be submitted in the form of a monograph, I also intend to additionally publish a minimum of two articles in high-impact journals (e.g. in Modern Language Journal with a focus on the data from the cross-sectional study, Second Language Research with a focus on virtual reality as an elicitation instrument) parallel to composing the results section.

Science to public: Due to the social relevance of the topic at hand, I plan to distribute the information gleaned from this study to the general second language learner population in Austria via different forms of (social) media. A Twitter and Facebook page will be set up for this project and interested participants can follow the project’s progress. The study results should also be distributed via local newspapers and other media outlets (e.g. radio interviews) to reach a broader public audience. Time permitting, I also hope to begin developing select pedagogical material targeting sociolinguistic acquisition (inter alia acquisition of receptive/productive dialect proficiency) based on these research results.

I will proceed in the spirit of Open Science

Open Science: With this doctoral project, I hope to make a contribution to research on how sociolinguistic competence is acquired, what the developmental process entails and which factors strongly mediate it. These results should give rise to new and scientifically valid pedagogical material targeting sociolinguistic achievement for second language learners in Austria. They should also constitute the basis upon which further research can build. In this vein, as a means to ensure trustworthiness and empirical soundness, absolute transparency and openness as well as reproducibility for future research, all results, i.e. all data and R codes, will be published on the Open Science Framework. Furthermore, any and all papers published during or after this doctoral project will be consolidated with accompanying material (i.e. extra notes pertaining to the rigor of the research design and method), data and R codes. In doing so, I hope to offer future research projects in the area of sociolinguistic acquisition and development a well-founded and trustworthy basis on which our knowledge on this subject matter can be expanded.