©2006 Richard Watson Todd Searching for ELT research n Purposes of searching –While setting up research: General overview of topic Methodological concerns

©2006 Richard Watson Todd

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

Documents

©2006 Richard Watson Todd Searching for ELT research n Purposes of searching –While setting up research: General overview of topic Methodological concerns