©2006 richard watson todd searching for elt research n purposes of searching –while setting up...

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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

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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

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KMUTT library resources

2 useful databases of full-text articles– H.W. (e.g. ELT Journal)– ScienceDirect (e.g. System, Journal of EAP)

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Link to H. W. database

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Choose the database

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Just type here

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Using ERIC

Mostly returns abstracts only Largest collection for education Need to decide on age of articles

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Choose the dates of articles

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Results for: inductive deductive

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Be careful about the database

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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

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Use Search by Information

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Number of records found

Gives details of contents

Results contain “teacher” or “teachers”

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Only 5 records returned

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Move the mouse over “More like this”

Look at the status bar for the topic

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Notice the different topic

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More hits returned now

All results concern error treatment