Resources for Research

 

 

IRIS Database of Research Instruments in Applied Linguistics

 

Directory of Open Access Journals 

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DOI Lookup 

 

Effect size calculator

 

Statistical power calculator 

 

Sample size calculator for T-tests

 

 

Resources for ELT

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Language Reactor (Excellent tool for immersive support in learning of many languages)

YouGlish​ (Use youtube's free database to search for video clips of specific words and phrases in English (your choice of dialect) to hear multiple examples of pronunciation and use in authentic contexts)

COCA Corpus of English Usage (Largest free corpus of English by Brigham Young University)

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (Free corpus of spoken academic language)

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Lexical Tutor (Text vocabulary analysis)

 

Voice of America (Provide ESL/EFL students with current global news story at an accessible reading level) 

 

Voice Thread (A platform for shared presentations and peer feedback on speech.  Allows students to record a presentation for each powerpoint slide and for teachers to comment)

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Extensive Reading Resources (Encourage English language learners to discover reading materials that are easier to read for pleasure)

 

Collocation Dictionary (Encourage English language learners to look up appropriate collocation use)