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English Language Learners

Find Journal Articles

The primary database for Education is Education Source. Try searching for any article that has appeared in the highly-regarded teacher journal Educational Leadership that includes English language learners (or any version of that phrase) in the title of an article.

Remember that both the Education Source database and Educational Leadership journal will remain available to you after Queen's at the OCT Library.

For more information about searching for journal articles in Education use the FInd Articles page on the Education Teacher Guide.

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Search terms:

ell or esl or efl or english language learn* or english as an additional language or english as a second language   TI Title

AND 

"educational leadership" SO Journal

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Professional Journals

Here is a list of journals that focus on classroom practice:

See the Education Library Guide for more information about finding journal articles in Education.

Education Canada

Educational Leadership (U.S.)

Phi Delta Kappan (U.S.)

ELT Journal

English Teaching Forum

English Teaching Professional

GEMA online journal of language studies

Internet TESL Journal 

Journal of Second Language Reaching & Research

Journal of second language writing

Language magazine

Language teaching research

Research papers in language teaching and learning

TESL-EJ: Full title: Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. Open access.

TESOL Journal: Practitioner-oriented electronic journal based on current theory and research in the field of TESOL.

TESOL Quarterly: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

World Englishes

Scholarly Journals

The journals below report on research in the field of teaching English as an additional language:

Classroom Focus