ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a range of ethical issues that arise in research conducted in second language classrooms and to provide guidance as researchers navigate difficult ethical and moral decisions. Recent research related to ethics training has shown that applied linguistic and second language scholars do receive training in the topic but tend to do so through the guise of institutional review board (IRB) certification or informal training. In recent years there has been a turn in the field toward a more social view of research ethics. The special issues of journals that address research ethics, papers in Schachter and Gass chronicle the issues and challenges of conducting classroom-based research. In addition to discussions of social responsibility of research, a second, and perhaps better known emphasis, has been placed on a particular sub-branch of research ethics, the responsible conduct of research (RCR). The chapter also presents some key concepts that are: procedural ethics, research integrity, research ethics, RCR and IRB.
