Research Guides: TESOL Research Guide: Find Articles

Best Bets for TESOL Research

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) This link opens in a new window
Use to find education articles, instructional materials, and reports from education professionals.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexing to books and articles on modern languages, literature, folklore, film, linguistics, and the performing arts.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Use to find articles written by professional educators, including pedagogical theory and practice.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Psychology database. Use to find articles on educational psychology, cognition, learning and other psychological related topics.

Additional Citation Databases for TESOL

Additional search tools to find citations and full-text articles in scholarly and professional literature in related disciplines.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Use to find management and organizational theory articles.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar broadly searches scholarly literature, including conference proceedings, theses, and court opinions.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Use to find library and information science articles.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Use to find medical articles related to autism and other health related topics.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Use to find related articles from a sociological perspective.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Use to find full-text articles on linguistics, languages, and more.

Core TESOL Scholarly Journals

Browse and search individual issues of prominent scholarly journals related to TESOL, language acquisition, and language assessment.

Assessing Writing
The journal focuses on all stages of the writing assessment process, including needs evaluation, assessment creation, implementation, and validation, and test development.
ELT Journal
A journal for English Language Teaching (ELT), whether as a second, additional, or foreign language.
Journal of Second Language Writing
A journal publishing theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions that represent a contribution to current understandings of central issues in second and foreign language writing and writing instruction
Language Teaching
A research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning.
Language Teaching Research
Supports and develops investigation and research within the area of second or foreign language teaching.
Language Testing
A fully peer-reviewed, international, journal that publishes original research and review articles on language testing and assessment.
Second Language Research
An international peer-reviewed, quarterly journal, publishing theoretical and experimental papers concerned with second language acquisition and second language performance.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
A refereed journal of international scope devoted to the scientific discussion of issues in second and foreign language acquisition of any language.
TESOL Journal
A refereed, practitioner-oriented journal based on current theory and research in the field of TESOL.
TESOL Quarterly
A professional, refereed journal, with articles on topics of signiﬁcance to individuals concerned with English language teaching and learning and standard English as a second dialect.

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