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