Accessing Research When You Aren't At University

Marc Jones / / Links, Research

One of my (many) bugbears is that rank-and-file teachers don’t often have access to research or academic documents when they aren’t enrolled or teaching at universities. Seriously, if SLA researchers and education researchers were keen to improve the lot of teachers on the front line then their findings would be made available to read, at least cheaply, instead of in the walled garden (hi Elsevier) that charges a fortune for a 48-hour reading period.
That said, there are little holes in the wall. Anthony Schmidt, Claire Maas and Mura Nava set up ELT Research Bites. There is superb stuff on here from a range of people. Also, Anthony has a lot of Research Bites on his personal site. A lot of academics are putting up papers on sites like Academia.edu and Researchgate.net. Not only that, but some people have publications on their own website or their university sites.

Researchers

Simon Borg – hat tip to Patrick Andrews.
Vivian Cook – Thanks Geoffrey Jordan
Zoltan Dörnyeí
Jim Flege – Phonetics and Phonology
Glen Fulcher – thanks Geoffrey Jordan
Stephen D Krashen
B. Kumaravadivelu
Roy Lyster
Paul Meara – thanks Marisa Constantinides
Paul Nation – thanks Jane Sabey
Norbert Schmitt – thanks Jane Sabey
Ian Wilson – Phoneticist

University content

University of Hawaii TBLT presentations – Once again, thanks Geoffrey Jordan

Open Access Journals/Publications

Apples
ELTED
English Language Teaching World Online – thanks Peter Watkins
Faculty of Language – an academic blog, again, thanks to Geoffrey Jordan
Humanising Language Teaching magazine. Not exactly a journal but not exactly a magazine. Very readable and not written in an ivory-tower style.
International CLIL Research Journal.
JALT Journal. Japan Association for Language Teaching’s main journal.
Journal of Second Language Teaching & Research.
The Language Teacher. Japan Association for Language Teaching’s magazine with some short research articles by members.
Ludic Language Pedagogy –  A new journal about games and play in language teaching and learning.
TESL-EJ – Thanks Geoffrey Jordan

Read more

This article by Jake Orlowitz points to even more resources.
This is Mura Nava’s list of repositories. He also says Sci Hub is useful.
This by Florentina Taylor on ELTJam.

12 Replies to “Accessing Research When You Aren't At University”

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  6. hi Marc
    have you considered doing a google sheet for this? be handy for updates, you can embed google sheet in this post;
    amazing to consider how the research access landscape has changed sine 2015; my no1 research resource is sci-hub, long may it & others like it continue!
    ta
    mura

  7. Hi Marc,
    Glen Fulcher has a great web site for lang. testing: http://www.languagetesting.info/gf/glennfulcher.php
    Vivian Cook’s website has excellent stuff on SLA: http://www.viviancook.uk/SLA/index.htm
    Check out Faculty of Language blog: http://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com.es/2017/11/repost-from-talking-brains-of-report.html?spref=tw
    TESL-EJ has some good stuff: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej23/a2.html
    University of Hawaii is a gold mine; for example: http://www.hawaii.edu/tblt2007/PP/presentations.htm
    Well, that’s a start. Very good idea to try and get a list together.

    1. Thanks Geoff. I will copy these into the main site later and delete this comment.
      Note to self. HT Jane Sabey: Paul Nation and Norbert Schmitt

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