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Searching for ELT research
Purposes of searching– While setting up research:
• General overview of topic• Methodological concerns
– Finding literature to support specific points
Key sources for ELT research
KMUTT Library– www.lib.kmutt.ac.th/online.html
ERIC database– www.searcheric.org
BALD database– mercury.kmutt.ac.th/books/main.asp
KMUTT library resources
2 useful databases of full-text articles– H.W. (e.g. ELT Journal)– ScienceDirect (e.g. System, Journal of EAP)
Link to H. W. database
Choose the database
Just type here
Using ERIC
Mostly returns abstracts only Largest collection for education Need to decide on age of articles
Choose the dates of articles
Results for: inductive deductive
Be careful about the database
Using BALD
Searches for both articles and books All available in the Resource Centre Exact match searches only Can be used as a directory as well as a
search engine
Use Search by Information
Number of records found
Gives details of contents
Results contain “teacher” or “teachers”
Only 5 records returned
Move the mouse over “More like this”
Look at the status bar for the topic
Notice the different topic
More hits returned now
All results concern error treatment