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Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship
Edited by Peter I. De Costa, Amr Rabie-Ahmed and Carlo Cinaglia
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 7] 2024
► pp. 60–72

Chapter 4
Doing research in culturally and linguistically diverse K-12 classrooms

Ethical considerations, critical reflections, and future directions

| University of Arizona,
This chapter centers around the ethical issues in regard to classroom-based Applied Linguistics research. More specifically, the purpose of the chapter is to offer a critical discussion of ethical considerations regarding the issues of gaining access to research site/participants and their stories, developing an ongoing consent, and being an ethical storyteller and advocate when collecting, analyzing, and sharing data obtained from teachers and learners in K-12 classrooms. I share examples of my own research experience with culturally and linguistically diverse K-12 classrooms in the U.S. in exploring the tensions regarding ethics in qualitative research processes.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Theorizing and understanding ethics
  • An overview of the research project
  • Gaining access, consent, and relationship building
    • Identifying potential participants: Ethical representation
    • Ethical access to research sites
    • Ethical consent from minors
  • Ethical care in positioning participants
  • Future directions
  • Conclusion
  • Author queries
  • References
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