Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts

183 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h17min.
Explicitly addresses the methodological and ethical components of research with young language learnersThis book focuses on ethical and methodological issues faced by researchers working with young language learners in formal school contexts. It uncovers and explicitly discusses a range of ethical dilemmas, challenges and experiences that researchers have encountered and grappled with, in studies of all kinds from large scale, experimental studies to ethnographic studies focused on just a handful of children. The chapters are written by researchers working with children in different classroom contexts around the world and highlight how ethical dilemmas and tensions take on a complex form in child-focused research, requiring researchers to pay particular attention to the social and cultural norms of the different communities within which children are educated as well as their school-based experiences. The book comprises three sections, with the first part focused on involving children as active participants in research; part two on ethical challenges in multilingual contexts and part three on links between teacher education and researching children. The book includes a critical discussion of the opportunities and challenges associated with applying the UNCRC (1989) document in second language research with children which will be of use to any researcher working in this area.Contributors Chapter 1. Kuchah Kuchah and Annamaria Pinter: Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts: Setting the Scene PART 1: ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO PLAY ACTIVE ROLES Chapter 2. Yuko Goto Butler: Researching with Children as an Opportunity for Active and Interactive Learning: Lessons from a Digital Game Design Project Chapter 3. Samaneh Zandian: Constructing Joint Understandings of Research with Children Chapter 4. María del Pilar García Mayo: ‘Are you coming back? It was fun’: Turning Ethical and Methodological Challenges into Opportunities in Task-based Research with Children PART 2: RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXTS Chapter 5. Victoria A. Murphy: Social Justice and Questions of Marginalization in Research with Linguistically Diverse Children Chapter 6. Gail Prasad: Reframing Expertise: Learning with and from Children as Co-investigators of their Plurilingual Practices and Experiences Chapter 7. Nayr Ibrahim: Artefactual Narratives of Multilingual Identity: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Researching Children Chapter 8. Jane Andrews: "I don’t want to talk any more": Reflecting on Research into Young Children's Perspectives on their Multilingual Lives Chapter 9. Kuchah Kuchah and Lizzi O. Milligan: Navigating Cultural and Methodological Complexities in Research with Children in a Sub-Saharan African Context PART 3: TEACHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN Chapter 10. Gail Ellis and Nayr Ibrahim: Teachers' Image of the Child in an ELT Context Chapter 11. Rama Mathew and Annamaria Pinter: Children and Teachers as Co-researchers in Indian Classrooms: Some Ethical Issues Chapter 12. Sandie Mourão: The Ethical Practices of Collecting Informed Consent from Child Participants in Action Research Projects Chapter 13: Annamaria Pinter and Kuchah Kuchah: Revisiting and Expanding Opportunities for Participatory Research with Young Learners in School Contexts Index