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Bilingual Education Favorites

Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education by Josué M. González (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781412937207
Publication Date: 2008-06-05
A great place for quick background context on a term, teaching technique, or topic.
Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education by James A. Banks (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook and Norlin Stacks LC1099 .E53 2012 v.1-v.4
ISBN: 9781412981521
Publication Date: 2012-05-24
Find quick, reliable background information on theories, educators, or topics related to schools and immigration, family engagement, curriculum issues, and much more.

Linking Your Bilingual Education Concepts

Many library databases have advanced search screens like this:

Boolean Searching Tips

Boolean Operator	Example	What it does
AND	bilingual education AND language policy	Narrows your search
OR	teens OR adolescents OR "young adults"	Broadens your search
NOT	"heritage language immersion" NOT "dual language immersion"	Weeds out unhelpful stuff
"" (Quotation marks)	"second language acquisition"	Searches an exact phrase, those words in that order
* (Asterisk)	communic* (will include possibilities like communication, communicators, communicating, etc)	Includes all possible word ending variations

Working with your Keywords

Keywords: The topic of research will generate keywords and related terms.

Research Question Example: What is the impact of classroom assessment methods that overlook fairness in emerging bilingual students' learning process?

linguistically diverse populations AND classroom assessment
emergent bilingual learners OR bilingual students AND school accountability
emerging bilingual students AND assessment AND language proficiency
testing OR assessment AND English language learner AND reliability OR validity OR fairness
emergent bilinguals AND informed instruction AND student achievement
language proficiency AND assessment AND fairness
language policy AND instruction OR curriculum AND English language learner
oral language AND literacy development AND assessment

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Core Databases

ERIC (Proquest)
The U.S. Department of Education sponsors this comprehensive database of education literature.
Education Full Text (EBSCO)
Covers special education, educational tests, adult education, multicultural education, teaching methods, and more. Includes the following collections: Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 (H.W. Wilson). Includes a text to speech feature to read articles aloud to you.
Linguistics Collection (ProQuest)
Combines Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts with full-text coverage of titles relating to all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Includes the following collections: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Linguistics Database
Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Spanish-language journal articles from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx people in the United States.
Education (Oxford Bibliographies Online)
Key literature on Education studies.

En Español

Dialnet
Works related to Spain and Latin America.
Digitalia Hispnica
A multidisciplinary collection of eBooks and journals. In Spanish.
Acuedi Digital Library
Collection of texts in Spanish, published across a range of disciplines.
BiblioQuinoa
Digital library that focuses on the work of indigenous authors and indigenous topics from Chile and Latin America. In Spanish.
Access note: Limited to 20 simultaneous users.
Chicano Database (EBSCO)
Covers Latinx in the U.S., including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central Americans.
Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Spanish-language journal articles from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx people in the United States.

Newspapers

Factiva
Most comprehensive source of worldwide local, regional, national, and international newspapers. In addition, you can find U.S. and international company profiles and industry reports.
World News Connection (East View)
Information from non-US media sources provided by the Open Source Center (OSC) a domestic and overseas bureaus who monitors open-source materials.
Access World News Research Collection
Online access to major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles. Also includes newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more.

Multimedia

Teaching Channel
Professional development videos for educators.
Access note: Do not use log in function or you will lose authenticated access.
Kanopy
Kanopy offers over 8,500 streaming films, documentaries, educational and training videos from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active and Criterion Collection/Janus films. All videos work on PCs with Flash, iPads, iPhones, and mobile devices.
Swank Digital Campus
Streaming service featuring films, independent films and documentaries. Access note: Please clear browser cookies/cache before use. All videos work on PCs, however will only stream on mobile devices by downloading the Swank mobile app. For more information, visit the Swank FAQ page.
Must use VPN to access this database from off campus.
Alexander Street (Alexander Street)
A search interface that provides access to audio, video, and text resources from Alexander Street Press.
LinkedIn Learning
An online library of high-quality video tutorials, created by industry professionals teaching a wide variety of software tools and skills.
Access note: For more information visit the OIT help page.