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Information Literacy in the Disciplines

This guide contains links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education

Information Literacy in the Disciplines: Foreign Languages & ESL

The ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines Committee has gathered links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education in Foreign Languages & ESL.

1. Standards and Guidelines from Accrediting Agencies and Professional Associations

2. Related Research

Bealle, Penny, and Kathleen Cash-McConnell. “Can Your ESL Students Explain Data in Tables and Graphs?: Fostering Information Literacy Through a Demographic Study of a City.” International Journal of Learning 16, no. 12 (2010): 451-458. Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed June 18, 2011).

Bordonaro, Karen. “Scholarship as a conversation: a metaphor for librarian-ESL instructor collaboration.” Collaborative Librarianship 7, no. 2 (2015): 56-65.

de la Piedra, Maria Teresa, and Blanca E. Araujo. “Literacies Crossing Borders: Transfronterizo Literacy Practices of Students in a Dual Language Program on the USA-Mexico Border.” Language And Intercultural Communication 12, no. 3 (2012): 214-229.

Johnston, Nicole, Helen Partridge, and Hilary Hughes. "Understanding the information literacy experiences of EFL (English as a foreign language) students." Reference Services Review 42, no. 4 (2014): 552-568.

Mitoma, Dona J. and Kathryn Son. “Sequencing Information Competency Skills in an ESL Program.” CATESOL 11, no. 1a (1999): 123-136.

Nishinoh, Haruo. “Information Literacy in EFL CAI/CALL Classes: Toward Its Integration in Language Learning Activities.” Doshisha Studies in Language and Culture 7, no. 4 (2005): 529-546.

Pinto, Maria and Dora Sales. “Towards User-Centred Information Literacy Instruction in Translation.” The Interpreter and Translator Trainer 2, no. 1 (2008): 47-74.

Tran, Clara Y. and Selenay Aytac. (2019) "Strategies for Teaching Information Literacy to English Language Learners." Collaborative Librarianship 10, no. 4 (2019): 251-266.

Ya-Ting C., Yang, and Jeffrey Gamble. “Effective and practical critical thinking-enhanced EFL instruction.” ELT Journal: English Language Teachers Journal 67, no. 4 (2013): 398-412. Humanities International Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed December 20, 2013).

Yoon, JungWon, and EunKyung Chung. "International students’ information needs and seeking behaviours throughout the settlement stages." Libri 67, no. 2 (2017): 119-128.

3. Adaptable Instructional Materials