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ERIC Number: EJ1435860
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Oct
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0261-4448
EISSN: EISSN-1475-3049
Research Ethics in Applied Linguistics
Katherine Yaw; Luke Plonsky; Tove Larsson; Scott Sterling; Merja Kytö
Language Teaching, v56 n4 p478-494 2023
For many researchers in the social sciences, including those in applied linguistics, the term ethics evokes the bureaucratic process of fulfilling the requirements of an ethics review board (e.g., in the US, an Institutional Review Board, or IRB) as a preliminary step in conducting human subjects research. The expansion of ethics review boards into the social sciences in the early 2000s has led applied linguistics as a field to experience what Haggerty (2004) termed ethics creep, a simultaneous expansion and intensification of external regulation of research activities. The aims of these ethical review boards are: (a) to evaluate the types and risk of harm to participants as a result of research activities, (b) ensure that participants can give informed consent to be part of the research activities, and (c) provide oversight on researcher procedures to maintain participant anonymity/confidentiality (Haggerty, 2004).
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Language: English
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