Looking for sources

ACADEMIC WRITING:LOOKING FOR SOURCES

Elba Méndez García

Looking for (reliable) sourcesPrint sources Books Periodicals (journals,

magazines, newsletters, newspapers)

Proceedings and papers (of/at meetings and symposia)

Dissertations and theses

Electronic media Periodicals

(journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers)

Research reports Proceedings and

papers (of/at meetings and symposia)

Print Sources: Books

A Basic Bibliography for Language Teacher Educators:

The Teacher Trainer journal http://www.tttjournal.co.uk/index.php?

page=back_articles Activity 1: Team up by letters A-Z. Go

through the Table of Contents of all available books in the library.

Looking for (reliable) sources on line

DON’Ts (X) Wikipedia Non-academic

web sites Google at random

DOs (√) Library searches Google

Académico University web

sites Organization web

sites Recommended

journals and archives

Recommended journals and archives

Free journals and archives Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and

Area Studies http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/1409 The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/Articles/ English Teaching Forum Online http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/

forum-journal.html MEXTESOL Journal http://www.mextesol.org.mx/ TESOL Connections http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?

CID=154&DID=1624 Virtual libraries: c) applied linguistics / TESOL -

journals & online articles http://www.englishstudydirect.com/OSAC/

ebookappling7.htm The Reading Matrix http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html Language Learning and Technology http://llt.msu.edu/ Current Issues in Education http://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu

Pay for access journals TESOL Quarterly Online, TESOL

Journal and Essential Teacher http://www.tesol.org/ The Reading Teacher http://www.reading.org/

General/Publications/Journals/RT.aspx

The Modern Language Journal http://mlj.miis.edu/ Language Teaching Research http://ltr.sagepub.com/ ELT Journal http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/ Journal of Transformative

Education http://jtd.sagepub.com/


The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/Articles/ English Teaching Forum Online

http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-journal.html

MEXTESOL Journal http://www.mextesol.org.mx/


Activity 2: Team up. Bring the Table of Contents from a past issue of the journals. You should have 4 Tables of Contents, 2 issues of each journal.

English Teaching Forum Online http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-journal.html

MEXTESOL Journal http://www.mextesol.org.mx/


Activity 3: Work individually but help each other. Save 2 articles that relate to something of your own interest – copy and paste onto a Word document.

The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/Articles/