Computer Assisted Language Learning for Chinese
Professor Mingquan Wang, Fall 2007


Library Research
Sources & Strategies
Prepared by Chao Chen, Reference Librarian at Tisch Library

  book Books  · bookJournal Articles · Blackboard  ·  Web Sites

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Finding Books on Language Learning


Finding Journal Articles

Tip: use more than one database (each with its own particular academic discipline/subject focus) for a comprehensive and in-depth research on your topic.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Indexes articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications in all disciplines and subjects.
Tip: start with a direct phrase search, "computer assisted language learning".

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the study of language.
Tip: since the entire database is about the study of language, you should be thinking of more specific searches as compared to the searches in the above database. Search example.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
An index of Western-language articles, monographs, and book chapters published since 1971.
Tip: since this database covers all topics of Asian studies, not just the study of the Asian languages, start with a broad search and go from there: "computer assisted language learning".

 

ABI Inform
Includes the full text of articles in over 500 business and management journals, both trade and scholarly.
Tip: use ABI Inform for software evaluations in addition to other databases. Try a search such as:
        computer assisted and language* and (learn* or teach* or instruct*)

Education Abstracts 1983- and ERIC 1966-
Tip: use this pair of education databases to focus on applications of CALL in classrooms, evaluations of CALL and other related issues.


C. Web Sites (recommended academic, professional, and learned societies sites, and more.)

Learning Chinese Online (California State University at Long Beach)

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) @ Chorus (UC Berkeley)

CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, Texas State University)

 

Virtual CALL Library (Sussex Language Institute at the University of Sussex)

EUROCALL (European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning)


For more on how to find and evaluate web sites, see How to Evaluate Web Sources.


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