The Franklin Catalog contains records of books, both print and online, accessible through the Penn Libraries.
A Subject Heading to Know
Many books on English as a Second Language are assigned the Library of Congress (LC) subject heading: english language--study and teaching--foreign speakers. This heading appears in the Subjects field of a catalog record and can be used to retrieve a set of works on ESL:
While you want to search for EFL, ESL, TESOL, TEFOL, or TEFL, Franklin Catalog will prefer this LC Subject Heading pattern instead!
Some pre-set Franklin Catalog searches to try:
To separate out works with english language study and teaching foreign speakers in the subject field AND limit that set by another key term, choose keyword search, put the heading in quotes, and add another term. Quotes are used for phrase searching.
Search Syntax
Default connector AND
first language = searches: first and language
Phrase in quotation marks
"first language"
use: and or to combine terms. (and, or, not may be lower case when searching Franklin Catalog, but they must be capitalized when searching Franklin Articles)
"second language acquisition" and (motivat* or psycholog*)
Distance between words can be specified with " "~#
"first language"~3 = first within 0 to 3 words of language, in any order
Truncate words with *
motivat* searches for motivating, motivation, motivational, motivated
Consider related terms
"second language acquisition" and (oral or verbal)
Most users do keyword searches, but browsing by subject can help you find additional works you might not find through a keyword search. These links go to subject heading searches.
Academic Writing--
Academic Writing--Study and Teaching
Bilingualism--
Bilingualism in children--
Code switching (Linguistics)--
Education, Bilingual
English language--Computer-assisted instruction for foreign speakers--
English language--Foreign Countries
English language--Globalization
English language--Grammar--Study and teaching
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching
English language--Technical English--Study and teaching
English teachers --In-service training
English teachers, Training of--
Intercultural communication--Study and teaching--
Interlanguage (Language learning)
Language and culture -- Study and teaching
Language and Education--
Language and languages--Study and Teaching
Language planning--
Language policy--
Linguistic minorities--
Literacy
Native language and education--
Pragmatics
Second language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Vocabulary--Study and Teaching--Foreign speakers
The following call number information will assist you in browsing the Van Pelt stacks. Remember some books will be checked out to other students at any given moment and electronic books do not have call numbers since they do not have a physical location.
PE 1128 TESOL
PE 1106, 1112 Grammar
PE 1137 Pronunciation
PE 1065 Teaching English (in general)
PE 1460 Idioms
PE 3721 Slang
P 35-121 Linguistics
P 40 Sociolinguistics
P 37 Psycholinguistics
P 118 Language Acquisition
P 215-240 Phonology, Phonetics
P 241-258 Morphology
P 302 Discourse Analysis
LB 1576 Teaching English (Elementary Ed.)
LC 3701-3740 Bilingual Education
