Research Cultures in Applied Linguistics and TESOL: Book Review

The book provides an essential analysis of research culture development in applied linguistics and TESOL across various institutional and geopolitical settings. It demonstrates how research culture emerges through neoliberal policies, institutional choices and academic traditions within specific local contexts, while also showing that ethical and collaborative research environments remain possible despite these pressures. The book organized into three sections that collectively examine research culture in applied linguistics and TESOL across multiple higher education systems globally. The third section explores open-science initiatives and proposes practical methods to create equitable research settings. The volume is particularly relevant to my own academic context, as it addresses my current academic challenges related to research performance assessment, teaching responsibilities and supervision methods, issues also documented in studies on Saudi EFL teacher education and postgraduate research supervision (AbuSa’aleek & Alharbi, 2025; Alharbi, 2020, 2022).