The current study investigates the ethical considerations in ELT (English Language Teaching). To this aim, two interviews and a questionnaire were used. The participants of this study were160 students of English Language department at two universities in Kerman, Iran to see if ethical issues are known and followed in ELT. The data was gathered by using a questionnaire and two semi- structured interviews. This study introduced 88 ethical issues or principles to be used by English language teachers at any level of teaching. The result showed that English Language lecturers of these two universities followed ethical issues in their classrooms in an acceptable way, but the degree of following nine ethical principles by the lecturers was not the same. It means that from these nine principles, Content Competence was considered as the most important factor by the university lecturers. Keywords: Ethics, ELT (English Language Teaching)
1. Introduction Ethic is the way of doing right and wrong, to have a precise judgment and to know what is right and what is wrong. According to Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary, "Ethic" means "moral principles that control or influence a person's behavior" (Hornby, 2005, p. 427). Velasquez et al. (2009) have described ethics as standards of behavior that tell us how human
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So they should have dominant attention to both physical and spiritual body of the students. The first aspect can be seen and evaluated by others, and the latter one is abstract but sensible. Physical body is related to the knowledge and the spiritual body is related to the ethical points to make a real human being, the second one is more important to overcome the hindrance of teaching and motivating the students of English language (The Difference Between the Soul & the Spirit.