ScienceDirect® is one of the largest online collections of published scientific research in the world. It’s a full text electronic journals service, providing access to over 1800 journals published by Elsevier Science. At their SciVerse hub link, you can view peer reviewed articles, see free abstracts, and purchase copies for around $20 US.
One of the journals they offer is System, an international journal devoted to the application of educational technology and applied linguistics to language teaching and learning. Type System into the journal search, and scroll down the list of journals until you find it. I signed up with ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and have them send me an occasional email with the 25 Most Downloaded Articles from System.
I really need these connections to the professional side of our work—after one leaves college and starts teaching, one (read: me) gets very busy and loses track of what’s fresh, interesting and useful. I’d be interested in your thoughts about this and any other sources to keep up-to-date professionally; attending conferences isn’t always possible.
FYI: here are some titles included in their last email. I include them to show you the wide range of topics:
- Learning outcomes and students’perceptions of online writing: Simultaneous implementation of a forum, blog, and wiki in an EFL blended learning setting
- Chinese students’perceptions of communicative and non-communicative activities in EFL classroom
- The impact of the interactive whiteboard on the teacher and children’s language use in an ESL immersion classroom
- Non-native English-speaking teachers, context and English language teaching
- A cognitive perspective on language learners’ listening comprehension problems
- Native and non-native teachers in the classroom
- The impact of general and specific vocabulary knowledge on reading and listening comprehension: A case of Iranian EFL learners
- Differences in the metacognitive awareness of reading strategies among native and non-native readers
- The impact of vocabulary preparation on L2 listening comprehension, confidence and strategy use
- The relationship between vocabulary size and depth for ESP/EAP learners
- Listening comprehension: The learner’s perspective
- Anxiety and predictors of performance in the foreign language classroom