©2006 richard watson todd searching for elt research n purposes of searching –while setting up...
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©2006 Richard Watson Todd KMUTT library resources n 2 useful databases of full-text articles –H.W. (e.g. ELT Journal) –ScienceDirect (e.g. System, Journal of EAP)TRANSCRIPT
©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
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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