Katherine Yaw|Luke Plonsky|Tove Larsson|Scott Sterling|Merja Kytö
Research ethics in applied linguistics
University of South Florida|Northern Arizona University|Northern Arizona University|Uppsala University|Indiana State University|Uppsala University
many researchers social sciences including applied linguistics term ethics evokes bureaucratic process fulfilling requirements ethics review board eg us institutional review board irb preliminary step conducting human subjects research expansion ethics review boards social sciences early 2000s led applied linguistics field experience haggerty 2004 termed ethics creep simultaneous expansion intensification external regulation research activities aims ethical review boards evaluate types risk harm participants result research activities b ensure participants give informed consent part research activities c provide oversight researcher procedures maintain participant anonymityconfidentiality haggerty 2004