Research Methods (ENG -319): Online resources

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Academic English Online refers to digital resources, courses, and tools designed to help students and professionals improve their academic English skills. These platforms provide lessons, exercises, and interactive activities focused on reading, writing, listening, and speaking in academic contexts

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Edited by Gabriele Griffin
Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities
Copyright Date: 2013
Edition: 2
Published by: Edinburgh University Press

Journal of World Languages (ISSN: 2169-8252, e-ISSN: 2169-8260) is an international, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal that explores the roles, functions and structures of languages in the world. Special attention is given to studies of languages in the fields of ecolinguistics (including the Haugenian Tradition and the Hallidayan Tradition), systemic functional linguistics, critical/positive/multimodal/ecological discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and philosophy of language

Action Research is an international, interdisciplinary, peer reviewed, quarterly published refereed journal which is a forum for the development of the theory and practice of action research. The journal publishes quality articles on accounts of action research projects

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is the first and only journal devoted exclusively to research methods in applied linguistics, a discipline that explores real-world language-related issues and phenomena

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Access to 3405 full text journals from computer science, mathematics, engineering, geosciences.

Taylor & Francis have been publishing academic research since 1798 and on an open access basis since 2006.

Wiley-Inter science is an STM (Science, technology, and Medicine) and SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) publisher. Introduced in 1997, Wiley Inter Science is a leading international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content. In June 2008.

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Key Features of IELTS:
Two Test Types:
IELTS Academic – For university admission and professional registration.
IELTS General Training – For migration and work purposes.
Band Score System: Ranges from 0 to 9, with higher scores indicating greater proficiency.
Test Format:
Listening (30 minutes) – Four recorded conversations and monologues.
Reading (60 minutes) – Three passages with comprehension tasks.
Writing (60 minutes) – Two tasks: a report/essay for Academic or a letter/essay for General.
Speaking (11–14 minutes) – A face-to-face interview with an examiner.
Accepted Worldwide: Recognized by 10,000+ institutions in over 140 countries.
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BBC Learning English is a free online platform that provides high-quality resources for learning and improving English. It is produced by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and offers lessons for learners at different levels, from beginners to advanced speakers.

Breaking News English is an online resource that provides news-based English lessons for learners of all levels. It was created by Sean Banville and features up-to-date news articles adapted for English learning.

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