The list of journals below are good sources of information primarily on topics related to applied linguistics and second language acquisition. However, when collecting primary research articles (See Primary vs. secondary sources.), consider any articles with evidence (i.e., support) that aligns with your thesis statement and the specific argument you are making.
- English as International Language Journal (EILJ) : Academics Education International Journals
- English Journal – NCTE
- English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
- ERIC – Education Resources Information Center
- Erudita: Journal of English Language Teaching
- International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies
- International Journal of English Language Teaching (IJELT) – EA Journals
- International Journal of English Learning and Applied Linguistics (IJELAL)
- International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
- Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics
- Journal of English Linguistics
- Language Learning and Technology
- Languages | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
- RESEARCH JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
- The Journal of English as an International Language – The Journal of English as an International Language : The Journal of English as an International Language
- The Language Learning Journal | Taylor & Francis Online
- The Modern Language Journal
UAA Digital Library
Open textbooks
- Home – Humanities LibreTexts
- Open Textbook Library – Open Textbook Library
- LibreTexts – Free The Textbook
- Subjects – OpenStax
- Open Textbooks | OER Commons
- OASIS
Links related to doing research
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| Academia.edu – Share research | Helps find, visualize, and share papers and author networks. You can also create and share your own collections of research articles with ease. |
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| ChatPDF | ChatPDF lets you upload a PDF and ask it questions in natural language. It summarizes and answers for free, and works for students, researchers and professionals. |
| Consensus | Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find insights in over 200 million scientific papers and summarize them for you. You can ask a question, create an account, and start searching for any topic, from health to business, with results tied to actual studies and no ads. |
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| Elicit | Elicit is a tool that uses natural language processing to help researchers search, extract, and summarize data from academic papers. It offers different plans and features for individuals, teams, and institutions, and claims to save time and cost. |
| Gemini | Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind, serving as the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano, it was announced on December 6, 2023, positioned as a competitor to OpenAI‘s GPT-4. It powers the chatbot of the same name. |
| Google Scholar | A specialized search engine that focuses specifically on academic and scholarly literature, unlike regular Google, which searches the entire web. |
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| Perplexity.ai | Perplexity is your AI-powered Swiss Army Knife for information discovery and curiosity. It’s not just about answering questions; it’s about empowering you to do more—whether you’re looking to summarize content, explore new topics, or even get a little creative. |
| Quiqqa | Qiqqa is a free and open-source software that allows researchers to work with thousands of PDFs. It combines PDF reference management tools, a citation manager, and a mind map brainstorming tool. |
| Scholarcy | Scholarcy is a tool that reads your research articles, reports and books in seconds and breaks them down into bite-sized sections. It extracts the key facts, figures and references and creates a summary flashcard for you to speed-read and follow the arguments. |
| Scispace | SciSpace is an AI-powered tool that explains and elaborates academic texts in simple words. You can browse papers by years, topics, or questions, and get answers from AI chatbots or copilots. |
| Scite | scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations-citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. |
| Semantic Scholar | Uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help scholars discover relevant research. |
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| Zotero | Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research from the web. You can create references and bibliographies for any text editor, and sync your data across devices and platforms. |
| iThenticate | iThenticate is a trusted tool for checking plagiarism and originality of your work, with comprehensive coverage of 89.4 million journal articles, subscription content, and web pages. It is used by researchers, publishers, and scholars from various sectors and purposes, and offers a Similarity Report and… |
