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TESOL
A
research guide: books, articles, & web sites
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How to Find Books in the ODU Library: Search in the ODU Library Catalog.
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How to Find Books in Other OhioLINK Libraries:
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Reference
Books—A Selection See also these related research
guides: Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education, and Special Education.
Select Books in the
Reference Collection
Reference items are located in the Library’s Reference collection on
the top Floor of Spangler.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:
Language and Language Acquisition
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language R 403
C1783, 1987
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A
Comprehensive grammar of the English Language R 428.2 C737 1985
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Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive
Reference to More than 400 Languages R 403 D15d
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A
Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. R 410.3 C8898d, 2003
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Language and Communication: A Cross-Cultural
Encyclopedia R 410.3 F4041 1998
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and
Learning R 418.0071 R7657e, 2000
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:
Education
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The
American Heritage dic•tion•ar•y for Learners of English. R 423 A3545h, 2002
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Dictionary
of Multicultural Education R 370.11 D554, 1997
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Encyclopedia
of Education R 370.3 E56d, 2003 8 vols.
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Encyclopedia
of Educational Leadership and Administration. R 371.2 E194e, 2006 Vols. 1-2
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Encyclopedia of Educational Research R 370.78
E56, 1992 3 vols.
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Standards and Schooling in the United States: An
Encyclopedia. R 379.158 S244s Vols.
1-3
Handbooks and Guides
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The
Atlas of Languages R 410 A88131
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Bilingual
Education: Politics, Practice and Research. R 370.6 N277y, 1993
v.92:pt.2
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Contemporary Education Issues. For available
listings, perform a title search in the ODU Library Catalog for Contemporary Education Issues.
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Educator’s
Desk Reference R 370.72 F8755, 2002
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Educator’s
Guide to Free Video Tapes R 011.37 E839v, 2003-2004
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Educator’s
Guide to Free Multicultural Materials R 011.37 E839m, 2003-2004
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Handbook
of Research on Multicultural Education R 370.196 H1917r, 1995
Statistics
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Almanac of American Education, 2004 R 370.973
A62a
Select Books in the
Main Stacks
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Book
Bridges for ESL Students: Using Young Adult and Children’s Literature to Teach
ESL. 428.0071 R2727b, 2002
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The
Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. 428.0071 C1443g, 2001
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English
L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom. 428.007 B5311e, 2002
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Essential
Linguistics: What You Need to Know to Teach Reading, ESL, Spelling, Phonics,
and Grammar. 418.007 F8771e, 2004
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The
Handbook of Funding Opportunities in the Field of TESOL. 428.07 S893h, 1998
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Look at
Me When I Talk to You: ESL Learners in Non-ESL Classrooms. 428.007 H3694L, 2003
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Motivational
Strategies in the Language Classroom.
428.007 D736m, 2001
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New Ways of Classroom Assessment. 428.0076 N4207w, 1998
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The
Politics of TESOL Education: Writing, Knowledge, Critical Pedagogy. 428.0071 R1416p, 2002
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Practical Resources for Adults ESL: A Selection Guide
to Materials for Adult ESL and ESL/ESOL Literacy. 420.7 S35p, 2000
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Practicum in TESOL: Professional Development through Teaching Practice.
428.0071 C8826p, 2003
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Qualitative
Inquiry in TESOL. 428.007 R3919q, 2003
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Ready-to-Use
ESL Activities for Every Month of the School Year. 428 J773r, 2002
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Teaching
Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar.
808.042 H592t, 2004
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Teaching
by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. 418.0071 B87717t, 2001
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Teaching
ESL Composition: Purpose, Process and Practice. 808.042 F4172t, 2005
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Teaching
ESL/EFL with the Internet: Catching the Wave. 428.002 T2206e, 2002
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Writing
Simple Poems: Pattern Poetry for Language Acquisition. 808.1 H739w, 2001
Select Books in the
Curriculum Resources Room
The
Curriculum Resources Collection is located on the first floor of Spangler.
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ESL Smart: Ready-to-Use Life Skills and Academic
Activities for Grades K-8.
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ESL Teacher’s Activity Kit. 428.007 C525e, 1998
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Shenanigames:
Grammar-Focused Interactive ESL/EFL Activities and Games. 428.24 K24s, 1997
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Using
the Math Explorer: A Guide for Teachers [Bilingual guide - Spanish and English]
510 U48m
Reference Resources Online
Numerous current
full-text handbooks and encyclopedias covering special education, at-risk
students, and adolescence. Search in ebooks such as Literacy in
To access:
From the library homepage, click on Books,
and select Electronic Reference
Books.
Mental
Measurements Yearbook
Full-text
information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering
educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related
areas as included in the printed issues of the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
To access: From the library homepage, click on Articles in Databases, select the Education category, and click on Mental Measurement Yearbook from the list.
Full-text dictionaries
and other reference books in one searchable database. Includes English Language
Reference. To access: From the library homepage, click on Books, and select Oxford Reference Online.
Searchable full-text
dictionaries, Educational encyclopedias, and more are available via the ODU
Library’s Quick Reference page. To
access from the library homepage: Click on Quick
Reference.
eBooks
Full-text ebook
database. Search among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including ESL.
Search by keyword, title, or author. To
access: From the library homepage, click on Books, and then select NetLibrary.
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Use an online
research database to find articles in scholarly journals, general magazines,
and newspapers. ·
To access the
databases below, from the Library’s Articles in Databases page, select the Education
category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of the page. ·
To Help You Search
in the Databases: |
A: Key Database for
Education Research
Contains peer-reviewed
journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications. Covers many academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts &
literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
Education
Full Text
Covers contemporary
education issues, and indexes core international
periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in education. Updated monthly.
Education
Research Complete
Includes scholarly
research and information relating to all areas of education, including
curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social
issues. Coverage includes journals, books, and conference papers. Some
publications indexed as far back as the beginning of the twentieth century.
Presents over 4300 research journals, covering numerous subject areas,
including education.
ERIC
The U.S. Department of Education's
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Covers such
topics as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology,
mental processes (including language acquisition), anthropology, and
observational and experimental methods from over 490 peer-reviewed journals.
PsycCRITIQUES
Weekly reviews of
books and films published by the American Psychological Association. In
addition to the latest releases, this database contains a ten-year backfile of Contemporary
Psychology book reviews, browsable by author/editor, book/film title, or
publication year.
PsycINFO
Contains
citations and synopses of journal articles, book chapters, books,
dissertations, and technical reports in the field of psychology and the
psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Updated weekly.
PsycINFO
Historical
Provides
summaries of historical journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations, and
reports on psychology and related fields from 1887 to 1966. Updated weekly.
Social Sciences Citation
Index (ISI Web of Science)
Citations. Indexes articles of scholarly journals from 50 disciplines
of the social sciences, with searchable author abstracts and a unique feature
that enables searching of articles that cite a known author or work. Note: Not
intended as a substitute for a comprehensive subject database such as SocINDEX,
which comprehensively indexes
journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other documents.
B: Databases for
Professional Development
MAS
Ultra: School Edition
Covers general reference, health, science, and other areas from over 490
general interest and current events magazines for high school students. Updated
daily.
Covers
general topics from over 140 general reference, health and science magazines
for middle and junior high school students. Updated daily.
Includes coverage from 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. Updated weekly.
Professional
Development Collection
Full-Text. Provides a
highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for
professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
Finding
Periodicals in this Library
Listed below are some TESOL and TESOL-related periodicals
available in the ODU Library:
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Applied Psycholinguistics
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TESOL Journal
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TESOL Matters
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TESOL Quarterly
Listings of all periodicals in the library’s collection can be
found by doing a title search in the ODU Library Catalog.
See also in this document the section Finding Web Sites
for Web-based journals.
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How Do
You Find Out if a Periodical Exists in this Library? ·
Use the ODU Library Catalog to
search for the title of the journal or newspaper you’re trying to find.
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A portal to Internet
search engines and directories is available on the ODU Library’s Internet Search page. In addition, listed
below are web sites that may be of particular use to you in your information
search. Minimum recommended
criteria for evaluating websites: ·
Accuracy of the
information ·
Authority of the
person or group responsible for the information ·
When the information
was created and last updated For more
information, view Evaluating
Internet Sources & Search Tools on the
Internet Search page.
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Web Sites—A Selection
See also these related research guides:
Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education, and Special Education.
Associations, Organizations,
and Institutions
· American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) http://www.aaal.org
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Center
for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA) http://www.cal.org/caela
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Center
for Applied Linguistics (CAL) http://www.cal.org
· International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) http://www.iatefl.org
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Linguistic Society of
· Modern Language Association (MLA) http://mla.org
· National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) http://www.nabe.org
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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) http://nces.ed.gov
· Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) http://www.tesol.org
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TESL: Associations http://iteslj.org/links/TESL/Associations
General TESOL and ESL
Sites
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Adult Education ESL Teachers Guide http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/teacher/teacherguidemain
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Dave’s ESL Café @
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/index.html
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English Zone http://www.english-zone.com
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ESL Magazine http://www.eslmag.com
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Everything ESL http://www.everythingesl.net
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The Internet TESL Journal http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj
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National
Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) http://www.ncela.gwu.edu
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Research
in Education: Selected Internet Links http://community.vcsu.edu/facultypages/kathryn.holleque/My_Webpage/link3.htm
· TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links
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TESOL http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp
Lesson Plans,
Activities, and other Teaching Resources
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Activities for ESL Students http://a4esl.org
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English
Teacher’s Desk http://tesol.sookmyung.ac.kr/05_feature/english_index.htm
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ESL Lessons and Links http://home.earthlink.net/~sclark98/ESLonLine/ghwelcome.htm
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ESL Resource Center http://www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm
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Ell Resources http://www.holbrook.k12.az.us/ell/eslinks.html
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Resources for English as a Second Language http://www.usingenglish.com
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TSL Resources (from the Internet TESL Journal) http://iteslj.org/links
Online Journals & Resources for
Research and Teaching
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English Teaching Forum @ http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/
Quarterly journal on theory and practice in teaching EFL, published by
the U.S. Dept. of State. Practical articles are contributed by teachers around
the world. Articles since 1993 available online.
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English Teaching Professional @ http://www.etprofessional.com
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Focus on Basics [L1, L2] @ http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/fob/index.htm
A quarterly publication of the National Center for the Study of Adult
Learning and Literacy that includes best practices, current research on adult
learning and literacy.
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IATEFL Newsletter @ http://www.iatefl.org
The newsletter (6 issues/ year) of IATEFL (The International
Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), an organization based
in the UK supporting ELT professionals worldwide. Selected articles from past
issues available online.
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The Internet TESL Journal @ http://iteslj.org
Monthly Web-based journal which includes articles, research papers,
lesson plans, teaching techniques, class material, book and website reviews,
and Web links. Online since 1995.
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Language Learning & Technology @ http://llt.msu.edu
Web-based journal, launched in 1997, which disseminates research on
computer techanology and second language education.
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Language Magazine @ http://www.languagemagazine.com
Formerly American Language Review,
this is a bi-monthly magazine with selected articles online.
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The Reading Matrix @ http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html
Online journal focusing on issues related to L2 reading.
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Teaching English with Technology@ http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/callnl.htm
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TESL-EJ: Teaching English as a Second or
Foreign Language @