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Education: TESOL Resources Guides

A guide to research and resources in the field of education

DATABASES

Find out how to search the databases for journals and scholarly articles.

Use the PDF guide: TESOL Journal Articles Guide 

Free, online journals

Here is a selective list of key open access journals in education. If you wish to see a more comprehensive directory of open access journals visit the Directory of Open Access Journals , which provides access to over 5265 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Search over 600,000 ebooks! Watch the video to find out how to search for ebooks here.

We have several ebook providers/platforms. Search both in the Library Catalog, or go directly to the ebook websites. Below, find some of our top choices!

See our PDF guides:

On the shelves, here's where you might find the most helpful print resources:

To browse the shelves for resources in TESOL, try the following call numbers:

P -- Philology. Linguistics 

  • P 1-85
  • P 98-769

PE -- English Language

  • PE 1-3729
  • PE 1128 - an important subset of the above for materials related to TESOL, ELL, and ESL.

LC -- Special Aspects of Education

  • LC 3701-3747 -- Education of special classes of persons / Immigrants or ethnic and linguistic minorities. Bilingual schools and bilingual education AND Children of immigrants (First generation).

Also, see the TEACHING RESOURCES section (near juvenile books/teaching kits).

  • 428.24 (Start here!)
  • 372.6 (language teaching)
  • 372.19 401 (grammar)
  • 410 (linguistics)
If you prefer print books, we have borrowing agreements with many colleges.  We also ship books to you for FREE.

Search over 600,000 ebooks! Watch the video to find out how to search for ebooks here.

We have several ebook providers/platforms. Search both in the Library Catalog, or go directly to the ebook websites.

Useful search terms:

Applied linguistics.

English language--Grammar--Study and teaching.

English language--History.

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

ESL.

Language and culture.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Literacy.

Second language acquisition.

Sociolinguistics.

TESOL.

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