Deborah Healey's Attic: Tunisia 2010 - Research Tools

Research Tools

Finding resources

Better Web Searching: http://www.deborahhealey.com/techtips/june2009.html
Some basic but essential guidelines for creating better searches.

NoodleTools: Choose the Best Search for your Information Needs: http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Library of Congress Research Tool: http://www.loc.gov/rr/tools.html

Intute portal - links by academic topic area: http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Google Scholar - not a lot of full text: http://scholar.google.com

Digital libraries - list of sources for free text articles and other academic material: http://www.deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.html

Free online journals in linguistics and language teaching: Teaching English as a Second Language-Electronic Journal (TESL-EJ), Language Learning & Technology (LLT), Internet TESL Journal (ITESL-J), English Teaching Forum (back issues)

Bibliographic tools

Zotero - bibliographic tool to download and use with Firefox and Word: http://www.zotero.org/

Microsoft Word 2007: References ribbon - manage citations in specific formats and create a bibliography

Commercial software: EndNotes

Online Writing Lab (OWL): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Research methods

Intute Research Methods list of links: http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=120643

Research in Education: http://www.edu.plymouth.ac.uk/RESINED/resedhme.htm

Quantitative Methods in Education Research: http://www.edu.plymouth.ac.uk/RESINED/Quantitative/quanthme.htm

Research methods tools

Compleat Lexical Tutor for concordancing/corpus lingustics: http://www.lextutor.ca/

MyStat (free version of Systat): www.systat.com/MystatProducts.aspx

List of other free statistics products: http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/Statistical_an alyses.html

 

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Last updated 9 February 2010