1. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Searching for ELT research n Purposes of searching –While setting up research: General overview of topic Methodological concerns –Finding literature to support specific points

2. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd 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

3. ©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)

4. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Link to H. W. database

5. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Choose the database

6. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Just type here

7. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Using ERIC n Mostly returns abstracts only n Largest collection for education n Need to decide on age of articles

8. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Choose the dates of articles

9. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Results for: inductive deductive

10. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Be careful about the database

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14. Using BALD n Searches for both articles and books n All available in the Resource Centre n Exact match searches only n Can be used as a directory as well as a search engine

15. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Use Search by Information

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18. Number of records found Gives details of contents Results contain “teacher” or “teachers”

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20. Only 5 records returned

21. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Move the mouse over “More like this” Look at the status bar for the topic

22. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd Notice the different topic

23. ©2006 Richard Watson Todd More hits returned now All results concern error treatment