ESL / Bilingual Education

Resources of interest for the study of second language acquisition and instructional and teaching methodologies to support language instruction.

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Encyclopedias

Provide excellent background/overview information. An excellent place to begin research. Contain articles written by experts for a general audience. Provide indexes indicating scope of coverage of a topic and pinpointing articles in which a concept will be discussed. Provide bibliographies for further reading.

	Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. By David Crystal P29 .C64 1997
	Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics P40.8 .C66 1999
	Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education LC3707 .53 1998
	Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 10 vols. Ed. By R.E. Asher. P29 .E48 1994
	International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 4 vols. Ed. By William Bright. P29 .I58 1992
	Oxford companion to the English language. PE31 .O94x 1992

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Reference Books

Handbooks, dictionaries, statistical sources, tables; detailed or procedural information specific to the subject areas addressed.

	Crosscultural, language, and academic development handbook. PE1128 .A2 D45 2002
	Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 4th ed. By David Crystal. P29. C65 1997
	Dictionary of Languages: the definitive reference to more than 400 languages. By Andrew Dalby. P29 .D35 1998
	Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics: a Handbook for Language Teaching. Ed. by Keith Johnson and Helen Johnson P129 .E53 1998
	Encyclopedic dictionary of language and languages. P29 .C68 1992
	Handbook of research on multicultural education. LC1099.3 .H35 1995
	Linguistics: a Guide to the reference literature, 2nd ed. By Anna L. DeMiller Z7001 . D45 2000
	Literacy: an international handbook. LC149 .L4956 1999
	Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics P129 .R5 1992
	MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. LB2369 .G53 1999
	Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. PE1625. O87 1989 Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on Compact Disc.1992
	Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics. P29 . B875 1996

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Databases and Indexes

Magazine, periodical and journal articles provide information on current developments, research trends, experiments and hot topics in a discipline. For every discipline, there are specific databases or indexes that provide article level information. Once articles are identified through the database or index search, look up the source journal in Vikat, PSU Library's online catalog, to locate them in the library. For a complete list of online databases and indexes, see the Library's Online Databases pages.

	ComAbstracts—citations and abstracts for articles from the primary research journals in Communication. Coverage dates vary; most of them start in mid-1980s or early 1990s.
	Communication Abstracts (1978- ). P87 .C59733
	Exceptional Child Education Resources (1969-) Citations to books, journal articles and reports related to special education.
	Education Full Text (1983-) Journal articles and citations from ~400 education periodicals Excel spreadsheet listing journals available in full text in Professional Development Collection and the Education Full Text databases.
	ERIC FirstSearch interface EBSCOhost interface —provides reference to a wide variety of educational topics, including citations to journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards, guidelines…etc. 1966- AskERIC interface Online ERIC Thesaurus List of journals indexed in ERIC held by PSU Library
	REI and CIJE –These two become ERIC. 1966-
	Humanities Index—indexes and provides abstracts to over 500 English –language journals in the humanities. 1984-
	Linguistics Abstracts: Emphasis on theory and practice of general linguistics. P1 .A1 L5123
	Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (1973-) Printed version (1967-) P1 .L15 Citations and abstracts for books, journal articles and dissertations covering all aspects of the study of language and linguistics including.
	MLA Bibliography Citations to journal articles, books, disserations on modern literatures and languages.
	MLA International Bibliography (1921- ). Z7006 .M64
	Professional Development Collection Full text educator/practitioner journals. Some inclusion of ESL/Bilingual journals. Excel spreadsheet listing journals available in full text in Professional Development Collection and the Education Full Text databases.
	PsycINFO—sponsored by American Psychological Association. It provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries. Abstracts for dissertation, books and book chapters are included. 1887-

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Online Full Text Journals

Many, but by no means ALL, of the journals of interest in ESL are available online. Below is a selected list of ESL full text journals to which PSU has access. Most of the journals require authentication for off campus use.

	CALL-EJ online (Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education): twice a year. 1996- http://www.lerc.ritsumei.ac.jp/callej/6-1/contents3-1.html
	Hwa Kang Journal of TEFL (Chinese Culture University): It comes out once a year. 1999 and 2000 issues are online. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/1930/Journal
	Internet TESL journal http://iteslj.org/
	Language, 2001- (full text in EBSCOhost)
	Language Learning and Technology Journal: 2 issues per year, 1997- http://llt.msu.edu/
	Linguistic Inquiry, 2000- (full text in EBSCOhost)
	Pedagogy, 2001- (full text in EBSCOhost)
	Reading Matrix: an online journal: a journal about L1 and L2 reading, literacy and technology, 2001- http://www.readingmatrix.com/current.html
	Sign Language Studies, 2000- (full text in Project Muse)
	TESL-Electronic Journal: a web journal with about 2 issues per year. A good source for book reviews, 1994- http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/index.html

Important Resources

These sources don't fit into any particular category, but are important for the discipline.

	Compendium of the World’s Languages, 2 vols. By George L. Campbell. P371 .C36 1991
	Education Resources on the Internet (formerly titled On-Line English Grammar): a valuable and free resource for student and teachers of English as a foreign language. http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/
	ESL Programs in the USA: the education guide for international students, with profiles of hundreds of ESL programs, colleges and universities and boarding schools in the USA. Contact and apply to programs online! http://www.StudyUSA.com
	Multicultural America: a resource book for teachers of humanities and American studies: syllabi, essays, projects, and bibliography. LC1099.3 .M8 1993
	Phonetic Symbol guide. By Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw. P221 .P85 1986

Subject Headings

Subject headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on a particular topic. Often subject heading searching can be more productive than searching by simple keywords. Listed here are some major subject headings of interest for research in ESL and bilingual education. Copies of the complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings are available at the reference desks throughout the library. 

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Call Numbers

Browsing the library shelves by call number ranges is another strategy for locating information on a topic; call numbers can help you get to the "right neighborhood" in the library stacks.

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Organizations

Often the best way to find information on a topic is to look for material published by a professional society or an organization.

	AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) http://aaal.org/
	ASHA (American Speech Language Hearing Association) http://www.asha.org/
	CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics) http://www.cal.org/
	Center for the Advancement of Language Learning Foreign language learning resources and links are collected for learners and teachers. Includes links to periodicals in popular and less common foreign languages. http://www.language-learning.net/cgi-bin/show/US/orgs/orgSeite47.htm
	Language Education Association http://www.languagebooks.com/
	NCBE (National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education): funded by U.S. Department of Education. National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/links/biesl/index.htm
	NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) http://ncate.org/
	NCLE (National Center for ESL Literacy Education) http://www.cal.org/ncle/
	TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) http://www.tesol.org/

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Web Resources

	The Applied Linguistic WWW Virtual Library. http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/welcome.html
	Dave’s ESL Cafe—English as a second language: links for teachers and students, compiled by an ESL teacher. It contains a list of resources for the study of grammar and an extensive content related to teaching and learning the English language. http://www.eslcafe.com/
	Foreign Language Resources on the Web (Instructional Technology Program at UC Berkeley) http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/HumanResources.html
	Haskins Laboratories at Yale University: Focuses on the biological bases of speech and language. http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/about.html
	iLoveLanguages Page: A comprehensive catalog and searchable database of language-related Internet resources. Each language has a collection of links to online translating dictionaries, tutorials to learn the language, newspapers and texts in that language, and schools that teach the language. http://www.ilovelanguages.com
	James Crawford’s Language Policy Web Site & Emporium: an exchange of news and views on English ONLY legislation, bilingual education, and endangered languages… http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/
	Languages Dictionaries and Translators: Resources for learning foreign languages, including online courses and software, plus sites devoted to etymology. http://www.word2word.com/dic.html
	Lexicon of Linguistics (Utrecht University) http://tristram.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon
	Linguistic Links (University of Rochester) http://www.ling.rochester.edu/linglinks.html
	Stanford university Center for the Study of Language and Information http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
	TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL links http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/
	Yamada Language Center Language Guides (University of Oregon): a guide to language resources on the World Wide Web. It contains information about 115 languages. http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html

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Last updated:
October 15, 2003