ETHICS

Class ethics protocol: acHUM/CL/UH/00032.
This questionnaire aims to collect data, based on your views, about the use of controversial topics in English Language Teaching.
Please note: By completing this questionnaire, I am assuming that you are giving me consent to use your answers in my university project. Please be assured that your answers will remain anonymous as this survey has been designed to receive ONLY anonymous responses. You are free to withdraw from the study at any time without disadvantage or having to give a reason. This data will be kept in encrypted files on a password protected computer to which I only have access. All files will be securely destroyed by the end of the academic year. This data will not be used for any further studies.

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* 1. Select your age group:

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* 2. Select your sex:

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* 3. Please select your sexuality:

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* 4. Please select your ethnicity:

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* 5. Do you identify with any of the following religions? (Please select all that apply.)

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* 6. What topics would you be happy to discuss in an English lesson?

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* 7. Please explain your reasons for selecting, and not selecting, certain topics listed in question 6:

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* 8. Do you think it would be beneficial to include the topics listed in question 6 in English language teaching coursebook content and why? (Please give a reason for your answer).

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* 9. If you wanted to include controversial topics, but some of your students were not happy to discuss them, how would you react?

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* 10. It was found in 10 English coursebooks that while discussing topics such as family, ideal partners, internet dating, relationships and socialising, the writers avoid using LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual) characters (Gray 2013). Do you think this raises any issues? (Please give a reason for your answer).

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