Slide presentation to accompany week 1 session.

1. Identifying/Searching for Professional
and Academic Reading
Developing Academic Competence (Week 1)
Eljee.Javier@manchester.ac.uk
Tuesday, 25 September 12

2. What to read...for now
You can’t read everything.
You shouldn’t read everything.
“...but there will still come a point when
you have to decide what to
read” (Wallace and Wray, 2011, pp.15).
✴Need to know
✴Interests
✴Subject area by Eljee Javier
Tuesday, 25 September 12

3. Books and Journal Articles
The bulk of your academic reading will
be in either one of these formats.
BOOKS: Borrow, buy or read online
JOURNALS: Online (PDF or print)
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4. University of Manchester Library
Access on campus
Access off campus
Managing the search
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5. An academic’s best friend...
Getting started
Advanced settings
Researching multilingually
So where is my article?!
Courtesy of www.sydney.edu.ac
BOOKMARK on your brower
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6. TESOL and Ed Tech:
Prabhu, N. (1990). There is no best method – why? TESOL Quarterly , 24/2: 161-176.
Bax, S. 2003a. The end of CLT: A context approach to language teaching. ELT Journal 57/3: 278-287.
Bax, S. 2003b. Bringing context and methodology together. ELT Journal 57/3: 295-296.
Harmer, J. 2003. Popular culture, methods, and context. ELT Journal 57/3: 288-294.
MAIC: See Richard’s handout “Categorised Bibliography”
Holliday, A.R. (2010). Intercultural communication and ideology. London & Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Fay, R., Lytra, V. & Ntavaliagkou, M. (2010). Multicultural awareness through English: A potential
contribution of TESOL in Greek schools. Intercultural Education, 21 (6): 579-593.
Lotherington, H. & Xu, J. (2004). How to chat in English and Chinese: Emerging digital language
conventions, ReCALL, 16(2): 308–329.
MAAL: Please refer to the reading lists in Bb9.
*Belz, J.A. (2003). Linguistic perspectives on the development of intercultural competence in
telecollaboration, Language Learning & Technology, 7 (2), 68-117.
Spolsky, B. 2003. Language Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Coupland, N. & Jaworski, A. eds. 1997. Sociolinguistics: A reader and textbook. Houndmills:
Macmillan
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7. TASK: Choose one item from the
reading list and find it using Google
Scholar or the library.
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8. Online Databases
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9. Reference management tools
Mendeley Zotero Evernote
Free versions
Help to annotate, organise and store PDFs
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10. Paper and PDF copies
Dropbox Uni P:Drive
Keep an electronic copy of all your paper copies somewhere!
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11. Get organised!
TRY out different tools.
FIND a system that works for you.
Flickr.com
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TODAY’S NOTES: On Bb9
NEXT WEEK: Will appear Friday morning.
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com
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