RESEARCH ISSUES: Making Ethical Decisions in an Ethnographic Study  

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Costa, Peter I. De

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: TESOL Quarterly (Full Text; vol 1-16 ada di JSTOR) vol. 48 no. 2 (2014), page 413-422.
Fulltext: tesq163.pdf (72.43KB)

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The issue of ethics is not a recent concern in applied linguistics. Ethics, for example, was foregrounded in TESOL’s “Guidelines for Ethical Research in ESL,” which appeared in a 1980 issue of TESOL Quarterly. As noted by Dufon (1993), this document and several other texts that came out in the 1980s and early 1990s focused primarily on the logistical aspects of conducting research. Research methods books on language studies that have emerged in the past decade (e.g., Mackey & Gass, 2005; Paltridge & Phakiti, 2010) have also begun to address ethics more explicitly, due in part to the increase in Institutional Review Board (IRB) involvement in the research process. Distinguishing between macroethics and microethics, Kubanyiova (2008) argues that a more contextual approach to ethical needs (microethics) is needed, in addition to the more general and standardized procedures defined by IRBs (macroethics). In light of this urgency to examine how codes of ethics influence codes of practice of researchers, coupled with a growing focus on ethical issues in applied linguistic ethnographic work (e.g., Davis, 2013), the author examines how ethical decisions were made when conducting a critical ethnographic study in an English-medium secondary school in Singapore

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