I was wondering if people might weigh in on this question that’s puzzling me.<\/p>\n
I was recently reading a PhD thesis awarded by a Greek university. Let’s say that the title was something like, ‘Teaching English as a Second Language in Manchester from 1917 to 1967<\/em>‘. The bulk of the thesis focuses on historical aspects of TESOL, as it contains archival information on the schools where English was taught, the coursebooks in use, student grades and the like.<\/p>\n Literally in the middle on all this, there is a chapter that presents an overview of Approaches and Methods. The structure of this chapter mirrors that of Stern (1983) and Richards and Rodgers (2001), as there are headings ranging from the grammar-translation method to suggestopedia and TPR. With the exception of the final section, these headings correspond exactly to the ones in the books I have cited, and are presented in the same order. Under each heading there is a summary of the information from the sources, in which I identified a number of sentences that are direct translations from the original (1-2 per paragraph). The referencing system is rather generic, in that there is a footnote at the end of each paragraph or so, where the author lists the relevant sections in several books, including (sometimes) the two books above.<\/p>\n It may also be relevant that the main supervisor of this study would not have been able to make an informed appraisal of this situation because he is from a field other than TESOL, and I believe his command of English to be rudimentary.<\/p>\n I think it is uncontroversial to say that this is poor scholarship, but does it also count as plagiarism? If it does, would the moral imperative towards research integrity trump the pragmatic imperative of protecting my budding career?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was wondering if people might weigh in on this question that’s puzzling me. I was recently reading a PhD thesis awarded by a Greek university. Let’s say that the title was something like, ‘Teaching English as a Second Language in Manchester from 1917 to 1967‘. The bulk of the thesis focuses on historical aspects of TESOL, as it contains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-FL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}