Research Guides: TESOL: TESOL 6100

Get Started on Your Assignment

In TESOL 6100, both your Lesson Plans and Final Paper assignments require you to locate and effectively use outside resources. This page can guide your process from the location of effective resources to using them ethically.

Class Workshop (9/7)

Search Databases

Databases allow you to search lots of content at once. Unfortunately, each database contains different published content depending on its scope.

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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
MLA International Bibliography indexes many of the journals that are central to language and linguistics. This database does not contain full-text access, however, and links to other databases or allows the user to order articles through Interlibrary Loan.
OneSearch (Rod Library)
This is not actually a database, it's a discovery system, but it will search many databases at once.

**Grad Student Tip: If you use OneSearch, you will want to utilize the filters on the side and be ready to research the journals in which the articles you find are published. All published content is not created equal or held in the same regard.**

Linguistics

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest)
The definitive database on the nature and use of language, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley InterScience provides access to over 4 million articles from more than 2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals, and across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors.

Education

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
Education Full Text (EBSCO)
Education Full Text brings you coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Gain immediate access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index with ERIC.

Browse Discipline-Specific Journals

Browsing prominent journals in the field can give you insight into current scholars and trends in the research. This can be a great tactic for brainstorming topics as well as locating current terminology in the field.

Here are links to a few highly regarded journals, you can locate others in OneSearch.

TESOL Quarterly
"Features testing, evaluation, professional preparation, bilingual and adult education and language learning" (UlrichsWeb).
Applied Linguistics
"Studies the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of language education" (UlrichsWeb).
Modern Language Journal
"Promotes scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language" (UlrichsWeb).
Language Learning
" Publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry theories from linguistics, psycho-linguistics, cognitive science, ethnography, socio-linguistics, sociology, semiotics, educational inquiry and cultural and historical studies to address fundamental issues in language learning" (UlrichsWeb).
Language Testing
"Provides a forum for work in the field of linguistic testing and assessment" (UlrichsWeb).
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
"Deals with the acquisition of a second language or languages, whether by formal learning or by assimilation" (UlrichsWeb).