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Online Articles

• Anderson, A. (2004, February). An introduction to teacher research. Learn NC: The North Carolina Teachers’ Network. Retrieved April 16, 2004, from http://www.learnnc.org/Index.nsf/doc/research-intro1?OpenDocument
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Action Research
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/%7Emryder/itc/act_res.html

Action Research Resources
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html

Action Research in the ESL Classroom
http://teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/eslclass/research.htm

Classroom Action Research Overview
http://mypage.iusb.edu/~gmetteta/Classroom_Action_Research.html

Creating Possibilities—An Action Research Handbook
http://www.epsb.ca/pd/pegasus/creatingcont.htm

Educating as Inquiry: A Teacher Action Research Site
http://www.lupinworks.com/ar/index.html

An Introduction to Qualitative Research
http://www.uea.ac.uk/care/elu/Issues/Research/Res1Cont.html

Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research
http://education.ucsc.edu/faculty/gwells/networks/

Research Questions Teachers Ask: A Report from the National Reading Research Center School Research Consortium
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/clic/nrrc/ques_r30.html

A Selection of Quotations Related to Action Research
http://educ.queensu.ca/projects/action_research/15quote.htm

Teacher Action Research
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/tar.html

Teacher Research
http://www.accessexcellence.org/21st/TL/AR/

 
APA Style

APA Style: Electronic References
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Styles Recommended by the American Psychological Association
http://cctc.commnet.edu/apa/index.htm

Research and Documentation Online (with sample APA paper)
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Online Journals/Conference Proceedings

Applied Linguistics: Browse the Archive (article titles)
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents.html

CALL-EJ Online (complete articles)
http://www.clec.ritsumei.ac.jp/english/callejonline/index.html

C@lling Japan Online (complete articles)
http://jaltcall.org/

ELT Journal (abstracts)
http://www3.oup.co.uk/eltj/

English Teaching Forum Online (complete articles)
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/

Essential Teacher (article titles)
http://www.clec.ritsumei.ac.jp/english/callejonline/index.html

Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics (abstracts)
http://ec.hku.hk/hkjal/

International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL) (article titles)
http://www.degruyter.de/journals/iral/384_5466_ENU_h.htm

The Internet TESL Journal (complete articles)
http://iteslj.org/

JALT Journal: The Web Edition (article titles)
http://jalt.org/jj/index_english.html

Korea TESOL Journal/Conference Proceedings (complete articles)
http://www.kotesol.org/pubs/

Language Learning & Technology (complete articles)
http://llt.msu.edu/

The Modern Language Journal (abstracts)
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/mlj/

PAC 3 at JALT 2001 Proceedings (some complete articles)
http://jalt-publications.org/proceedings/2001.html

TESL Canada Journal (abstracts)
http://www.tesl.ca/HTML/journal.html

TESL-EJ (complete articles)
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/index.html

TESOL Matters (browse archive; some complete articles)
http://www.clec.ritsumei.ac.jp/english/callejonline/index.html

Thai TESOL Bulletin (complete articles)
http://www.thaitesol.org/bulletin/

 
Other Useful Links

A Brief Guide to Informal Survey Research for College Composition Students
http://webster.unh.edu/~pmatsuda/composition/survey.html

A Brief Guide to Questionnaire Development
http://ertr.tamu.edu/showlink.cfm?linkid=509&catid=26

Center for Applied Linguistics: Online Resources
http://www.cal.org/resources/update.html

General PowerPoint Tips
http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1052771791751PowerPoint_Tips.pdf

Hints for Designing Effective Questionnaires
http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=5&n=3

Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/qualres.html

Research Questions Teachers Ask:
A Report from the National Reading Center School Research Consortium
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/clic/nrrc/ques_r30.html

Statistics to Use (online calculators)
http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/

TESOL Quarterly Submission Guidelines
(Follow the links to "Quantitative and Qualitative Research Guidelines")
http://www.tesol.org/pubs/author/serials/tqguides.html

Using the WWW for EFL Research and Resources
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/qualres.html

Dr. Rodney Tyson
rtyson@ausharjah.edu
Last update: September 8, 2004