Hero Chalmers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1156065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hero Chalmers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hero |
| FAMILY NAME | Chalmers |
| SIGNATURE | CHALMERS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2687-9722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Improving reporting quality to reduce research waste in applied linguistics: More lessons from healthcare research
Avoidable research waste – that is, research that is unnecessary, poorly designed, or insufficiently communicated – limits the value of scholarship. Building on our earlier work, where we drew lessons from healthcare research to describe five sources of avoidable waste in applied linguistics research, this article focuses on the fifth source: quality of research reporting. Inadequate reporting limits understanding, constrains evidence-informed pr…
A systematic review of international students’ experiences transitioning from non-Anglophone high schools to universities in Anglophone settings
A commentary on Zuniga‐Montanez and Davies et al: How did Covid ‐19 affect young children's language environment and language development? A scoping review
It was early 2020, a week or two into Hilary Term, what everyone else calls Spring Term, but we at Oxford love our arcane traditions. I recall one of my graduate students, from China, coming to me ashen‐faced at the end one of my lectures on the effects of bilingualism on the linguistic and cognitive development of young learners. “Please be careful,” she said. “Have you heard about the disease. It's really scary. Please look after your family.” …
Reducing ‘avoidable research waste’ in applied linguistics research: Insights from healthcare research
This paper explores Chalmers and Glasziou's (2009) notion of ‘research waste’ from healthcare research to examine what it can offer the field of applied linguistics. Drawing on examples from both disciplines, we unpack Macleod et al.'s (2014) five research waste categories: (1) asking the wrong research questions, (2) failing to situate new research in the context of existing research, (3) inefficient research regulation/management, (4) failing t…
Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students
Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy development among numerous learners in the Global South. In the Caribbean in particular, the poor writing outcomes of Creole speakers across all levels of education has been a subject of lament for educators and policymakers for several years. Given the significant differe…
Topics, publication patterns, and reporting quality in systematic reviews in language education. Lessons from the international database of education systematic reviews (Idesr)
The International Database of Education Systematic Reviews ( IDESR.org ) contains summary records of published systematic reviews in education and protocols for unpublished reviews and reviews in preparation. During its pilot phase, IDESR is concentrating exclusively on curating systematic reviews in language education. IDESR makes ready access to extant evidence syntheses for researchers, who can use this information to assess the strength of th…
Opening the methodological black box of research synthesis in language education: Where are we now and where are we heading
What do we mean by 'research synthesis'? full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point; but anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been, the victim of deception
Investigating the substantive linguistic effects of using songs for teaching second or foreign languages to preschool, primary and secondary school learners: A systematic review of intervention resear…
Implementation and Effects of Pedagogical Translanguaging in EFL Classrooms: A Systematic Review
In response to calls for more research to assess the effects of translanguaging on substantive learning outcomes, this systematic review begins that process by synthesising existing research on pedagogical translanguaging approaches that have been formally assessed for effectiveness in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. A systematic process of searching and selecting the literature found 10 eligible studies. Data were extracted for n…
Old delights’: The politics of pastoral nostalgia in Hutchinson’s manuscript verse
This article investigates the ways in which Lucy Hutchinson’s manuscript verse draws on pastoral and related modes frequently associated with royalist poetics. It situates her approach in the context of her awareness of tensions over private landholding during the Civil War period, suggesting that her verse both looks back nostalgically to an ideal of elite landownership and recognises the challenges presented by popular democratic forces. In her…
But not laughing”: Horsemanship and the idea of the cavalier in the writings of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle
This article examines William Cavendish’s two treatises on horsemanship printed in 1658 and 1667, respectively. It argues that a close reading of these works in their discursive and iconographic contexts reveals their engagement with a markedly unstable idea of the cavalier as horseman during this period and evinces a far greater degree of self-conscious anxiety concerning questions of governance than previous critics have acknowledged. In partic…
Forms of engagement: Women, poetry, and culture 1640–1680
Interrogating participatory catchment organisations: Cases from Canada, New Zealand, Scotland and the Scottish-English Borderlands
Catchment management in the developed world is undergoing a fundamental reconfiguration in which top-down governance is being challenged by local organisations promoting collaborative decisionmaking. Local, participation-based organisations are emerging as mediators of relations between governments and publics. These organisations, defined here as participatory catchment organisations (PCOs), are emergent at a time when developed world catchment …
Interrogating participatory catchment organisations: Cases from Canada, New Zealand, Scotland and the Scottish-English Borderlands
Catchment management in the developed world is undergoing a fundamental reconfiguration in which top-down governance is being challenged by local organisations promoting collaborative decisionmaking. Local, participation-based organisations are emerging as mediators of relations between governments and publics. These organisations, defined here as participatory catchment organisations (PCOs), are emergent at a time when developed world catchment …
But not laughing”: Horsemanship and the idea of the cavalier in the writings of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle
This article examines William Cavendish’s two treatises on horsemanship printed in 1658 and 1667, respectively. It argues that a close reading of these works in their discursive and iconographic contexts reveals their engagement with a markedly unstable idea of the cavalier as horseman during this period and evinces a far greater degree of self-conscious anxiety concerning questions of governance than previous critics have acknowledged. In partic…
Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students
Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy development among numerous learners in the Global South. In the Caribbean in particular, the poor writing outcomes of Creole speakers across all levels of education has been a subject of lament for educators and policymakers for several years. Given the significant differe…
Forms of engagement: Women, poetry, and culture 1640–1680
Interrogating participatory catchment organisations: Cases from Canada, New Zealand, Scotland and the Scottish-English Borderlands
Catchment management in the developed world is undergoing a fundamental reconfiguration in which top-down governance is being challenged by local organisations promoting collaborative decisionmaking. Local, participation-based organisations are emerging as mediators of relations between governments and publics. These organisations, defined here as participatory catchment organisations (PCOs), are emergent at a time when developed world catchment …
But not laughing”: Horsemanship and the idea of the cavalier in the writings of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle
This article examines William Cavendish’s two treatises on horsemanship printed in 1658 and 1667, respectively. It argues that a close reading of these works in their discursive and iconographic contexts reveals their engagement with a markedly unstable idea of the cavalier as horseman during this period and evinces a far greater degree of self-conscious anxiety concerning questions of governance than previous critics have acknowledged. In partic…
Implementation and Effects of Pedagogical Translanguaging in EFL Classrooms: A Systematic Review
In response to calls for more research to assess the effects of translanguaging on substantive learning outcomes, this systematic review begins that process by synthesising existing research on pedagogical translanguaging approaches that have been formally assessed for effectiveness in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. A systematic process of searching and selecting the literature found 10 eligible studies. Data were extracted for n…
Old delights’: The politics of pastoral nostalgia in Hutchinson’s manuscript verse
This article investigates the ways in which Lucy Hutchinson’s manuscript verse draws on pastoral and related modes frequently associated with royalist poetics. It situates her approach in the context of her awareness of tensions over private landholding during the Civil War period, suggesting that her verse both looks back nostalgically to an ideal of elite landownership and recognises the challenges presented by popular democratic forces. In her…
Topics, publication patterns, and reporting quality in systematic reviews in language education. Lessons from the international database of education systematic reviews (Idesr)
The International Database of Education Systematic Reviews ( IDESR.org ) contains summary records of published systematic reviews in education and protocols for unpublished reviews and reviews in preparation. During its pilot phase, IDESR is concentrating exclusively on curating systematic reviews in language education. IDESR makes ready access to extant evidence syntheses for researchers, who can use this information to assess the strength of th…
Opening the methodological black box of research synthesis in language education: Where are we now and where are we heading
What do we mean by 'research synthesis'? full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point; but anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been, the victim of deception
Investigating the substantive linguistic effects of using songs for teaching second or foreign languages to preschool, primary and secondary school learners: A systematic review of intervention resear…
A commentary on Zuniga‐Montanez and Davies et al: How did Covid ‐19 affect young children's language environment and language development? A scoping review
It was early 2020, a week or two into Hilary Term, what everyone else calls Spring Term, but we at Oxford love our arcane traditions. I recall one of my graduate students, from China, coming to me ashen‐faced at the end one of my lectures on the effects of bilingualism on the linguistic and cognitive development of young learners. “Please be careful,” she said. “Have you heard about the disease. It's really scary. Please look after your family.” …
Reducing ‘avoidable research waste’ in applied linguistics research: Insights from healthcare research
This paper explores Chalmers and Glasziou's (2009) notion of ‘research waste’ from healthcare research to examine what it can offer the field of applied linguistics. Drawing on examples from both disciplines, we unpack Macleod et al.'s (2014) five research waste categories: (1) asking the wrong research questions, (2) failing to situate new research in the context of existing research, (3) inefficient research regulation/management, (4) failing t…
Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students
Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy development among numerous learners in the Global South. In the Caribbean in particular, the poor writing outcomes of Creole speakers across all levels of education has been a subject of lament for educators and policymakers for several years. Given the significant differe…
Improving reporting quality to reduce research waste in applied linguistics: More lessons from healthcare research
Avoidable research waste – that is, research that is unnecessary, poorly designed, or insufficiently communicated – limits the value of scholarship. Building on our earlier work, where we drew lessons from healthcare research to describe five sources of avoidable waste in applied linguistics research, this article focuses on the fifth source: quality of research reporting. Inadequate reporting limits understanding, constrains evidence-informed pr…
A systematic review of international students’ experiences transitioning from non-Anglophone high schools to universities in Anglophone settings
Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works)