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This paper examines university-college students’ prevailing attitudes toward cheating in Oman using qualitative methods: video recording of a testing session and unstructured interviews. Evidence gathered from these sources identifies common reasons students cheat. 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In fact, this burden is more expedient and pronounced because of aberrant behaviours such as cheating that can  This paper therefore looks into the prevalent attitude towards cheating among students in a University College in Oman. The research is carried out qualitatively through video recording a testing session and through unstructured interviews in order to gather evidence of cheating and to establish reasons why students cheat. Most importantly, it seeks to address this attitude by advocating the role that English Language Teaching (ELT) plays in dealing with this problem. The main reason behind cheating, which seems to reflect the prevailing socio-cultural dimension, is highlighted and measures to address the attitude are put forward.  \nIntroduction  \nCheating is a serious concern in the academic world and that is why there has been a lot of research devoted to it (Firmin, Burger & Blosser, 2007 ; Sasson, 2007 ; Dawkins, 2004) . For instance, Schab ( 1991), in Firmin et al. (2007) in the research about high school cheating, reports that students using cheat sheets increased from 34% to 68%, and students allowing others to copy rose from 58 to 98% over a period from 1969 to 1989. Similarly, Jendreck ( 1992)  contends that less than 1% of students who observed cheating reported the incident to the instructor.  \nCheating has been researched using qualitative and quantitative approaches by different researchers. For example, Firmin et al. (2007) conducted research among Psychology students with an aim of observing different stages that students go through when observing and reporting cheating. In their research they used individual, in-depth, qualitative  \ninterviews. On the other hand, Kirkvliet and Sigmund ( 1990) employed direct observation, the error overlap method, direct questions, and randomized response questions in their research where they explored the determinants of class-specific cheating behavior including  \n(2003) used detailed administrative data when researching about the prevalence of teacher cheating. This research used observation via a video recording of a testing session with an aim of observing cheating behavior, and unstructured interviews in order to establish reasons why students cheat. But, although the research establishes occurrence of cheating and explains the attitude cheating students have towards it by way of highlighting the reason why students cheat, the underlying aim is to propose measures to address the attitude, hence the topic: English Language Teaching and the promotion of Academic Ethics.  \nDefining cheating  \nIt must be noted that cheating has evolved to include a plethora of behaviours ranging from using crib sheets, digital devices like mobile phones, to copying from the next person, and soon. In fact, Dawkins (2004) lists different types of cheating including using crib notes, copying from others, helping others to cheat, inappropriate collaborations in assignments and high-tech cheating. Similarly, one College lists the following examples of cheating:  \n(i) Communicating during an examination with any person other than a properly authorized invigilator or another authorized member of staff;  \n(ii) Introducing any written or printed materials into the examination room unless expressly permitted by the Assessment Board or programme regulations;  \n(iii) Introducing any electronically stored information into the examination room unless expressly permitted by the Assessment Board or programme regulations;  \n(iv) Gaining access to any unauthorized material relating to an examination during or before the examinati","cbCaisGLEwZvyTG4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisGLEwZvyTG4","pdf",832524,13,"English","# Introduction\n# Defining cheating","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper focus on cheating in a university college in Oman?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses the burden on higher education to inculcate academic ethical behaviour and investigates prevalent attitudes toward cheating among students in Oman.\"},{\"question\":\"What research methods are used to gather evidence of cheating?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses video recording of a testing session and unstructured interviews to collect evidence of cheating and understand why students cheat.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect cheating attitudes to English Language Teaching (ELT)?\",\"answer\":\"It advocates ELT as a key approach to deal with the cheating problem and emphasizes measures to address the prevailing attitude.\"}]","English Language Teaching and the Promotion of Academic Ethics | PDF",1792067882,33]