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Resources for Researchers

The International Research Foundation for English Language Education is pleased to share these reference lists with researchers throughout the world. They are stored as Word documents so that they will be dynamic tools. You may download them and use them at your convenience.

Many thanks to those people who have contributed references to these lists: Aldayat Akbarova, Basma Issa Tlelan Al-Saleem, Kholoud Althubaiti, Neil Anderson, Kathi Bailey, Julie Choi, Ryan Damerow, Rachel Josephs, Stuart Landers, Sky Lantz-Wagner, Kuan-Ling Lin, Megan Luce, Lucie Moussu, JoAnn Mulready Shick, Courtney Pahl, Tamatha Roman, Sarah Springer, Steven Talmy, G. Richard Tucker, and Leo van Lier.

If you wish to contribute a new reference to one of these reference lists, or an entirely new reference list, please send the reference or the new reference list in APA format to tirf@lists.utah.edu. Thank you!

Action Research
Alternative, Authentic, and Performance Assessment
Anxiety in Language Learning and Assessment
Autonomy and Agency
Cloze Tests
Communication Strategies
Communicative Language Testing
Community Colleges and ESL
Compliment Responses
Content-Based Instruction
Critical Pedagogy and Critical Research
Diagnostic Assessment
Diary Studies in Language Learning and Teaching
Fluency
Foreign and Second Language Teaching in Kindergarten through Eighth Grade
Grammar Instruction
Form-Focused Instruction
Identity and Language Learning and Teaching
Innovations
International English
Interviewing in Qualitative Research
Language Classroom Research
Language Teacher Education
Language in Business and Industry
Language Policy and Language Planning
Leadership
Listening Assessment
Motivation in Language Learning
Narratives as Data Collection Procedures
Non-Native Speaking Language Teachers
Nursing Education
Observation
Portfolio Assessment
Pragmatics
Professional Development of Language Teachers
Pronunciation
Reading Assessment
Reflective Teaching
Schema Theory in Language Teaching and Assessment
Seating Arrangements in Classrooms
Self-Assessment
Speaking Assessment
Story Retelling
Supervision and Evaluation of Teachers
Task Based Language Teaching
Technology in Language Learning and Teaching
Team Teaching
Test Bias
Washback
Willingness to Communicate
Writing Assessment