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Language, Literacy & Culture Research Guide

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Books - Language, Literacy and Culture

I. Search for Books from UMass Library Catalog at http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu

You can limit the search by country, language, date, etc.
You can also type in other subject areas in theLibrary Catalog

A. Broad Subject Searches. You can Search by Subject to see lists of library owned material on a topic. For example, click on a subject heading below:

Bilingualism
Black English
Code Switching
Communicative Competence
Education, Bilingual
English Language Study And Teaching Foreign Speakers
Language and Languages Study and Teaching
Language Acquisition (limit by year or other term)
Language Arts Elementary
Language Arts Secondary
Language Attrition
Language Awareness in Children
Linguistic Minorities
Linguistics
Literacy (press Limit to limit by year or language) or to add a country name
Literacy Social Aspects --Many titles dealing with L2 acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Racism in Language
Second Language Acquisition
Sociolinguistics

B . Examples of Keywords in the Library Catalog

You can add cultures, peoples, other terms or countries to a search, i.e. language and latinos; second language acquisition and research; linguistics and teaching

II. Find Locations of Books (Most books and other materials on education reside in the 'L' section of the Library of Congress Classification system we use to organize materials by subject in the Libraries. The 'L's currently sit on the 20th floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. The P's are on the 12th floor.

Call Number Areas for Educational aspects related to Language, Culture and Literacy include:

Bilingual Education (Education Bilingual; Bilingualism) LC 3701 to LC 3715; P115
Critical Pedagogy; Critical Literacy LC 196
(ESL) English Language Study And Teaching Foreign Speakers PE 1128
Language and Education; Native Language and Education; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics P 35 - 40.8; P115 - P121

Multicultural Education LC 196; LC 1099

III. Other Catalogs for Finding Books

Net Library - online books
- Bilingual education and bilingualism. Vol. 16, Multicultural children in the early years : creative teaching, meaningful learning
- Language and limits: resisting reform in English studies Language and limits: resisting reform in English studies
WorldCat and Other Library Catalogs for searching other catalogs if you don't find books in the Five College System.
Borrow books from the Virtual Catalog and Interlibrary Loan.

Massachusetts residents may borrow library materials.

Visit the Main Level (the floor below the Entrance level) of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library to use the Reference Collection and conduct web-based research.

Created: August 2003
Last modified: Feb. 25, 2002 May 16, 2005