To Examine the Use of Politeness Among Children, Kim Records

question 4

Multiple Choice

To examine the use of politeness among children, Kim records conversations between school children and their teachers. She then randomly samples some of these conversations and counts the number of times the children said "please" or "thank you" during the conversation. Which research methodology is Kim employing to answer her research question?

• A) participant observation
• B) content analysis
• C) ethnography
• D) experimentation

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