Research ethics in applied linguistics

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 re...

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Published in:Language teaching 2023-10, Vol.56 (4), p.478-494
Main Authors: Yaw, Katherine, Plonsky, Luke, Larsson, Tove, Sterling, Scott, Kytö, Merja
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied linguistics
Ethics
Informed consent
Language
Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Qualitative research
Research ethics
Research methodology
Research subjects
Research Timeline
Review boards
Social sciences
Teaching
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Summary: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).
ISSN:0261-4448
1475-3049
1475-3049
DOI:10.1017/S0261444823000010