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Welcome to the TESOL/ESOL/Bilingual Education and Applied Linguistics Guide

This guide has been created to help students
in the MA in TESOL, the MAT in ESOL, the MA in Bilingual Education, and the online MA in TEFL programs.

This guide provides links to--

Subject databases for finding scholarly secondary sources;
Major TESOL/TEFL and applied linguistics journals;
APA citation style guidelines for creating reference lists and parenthetical citations.

General research resources

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar may be the world’s largest academic search engine, indexing peer reviewed articles, books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, and other scholarly literature. The full text of items may not be available for free, but those that overlap with AU Library’s collections can be accessed there.
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WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
OCLC WorldCat is a catalog of holdings from libraries around the world - containing entries for books, videos, journals, recordings, and more - over 43 million records. Each record has a link to the American University interlibrary loan request form.
NOTE: WorldCat is NOT a database of research articles.

AU TESOL Reference Materials
Use the information from this page as a reference for the AU TESOL program materials.