Searching for ELT research n Purposes of searching – While setting up research: • General overview of topic • Methodological concerns – Finding literature to support specific points
Key sources for ELT research n KMUTT Library – www. lib. kmutt. ac. th/online. html n ERIC database – www. searcheric. org n BALD database – mercury. kmutt. ac. th/books/main. asp
KMUTT library resources n 2 useful databases of full-text articles – H. W. (e. g. ELT Journal( – Science. Direct (e. g. System, Journal of EAP(
Link to H. W. database
Choose the database
Just type here
Using ERIC n n n 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 n n 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