References

Libraries have any number of journals specific to teaching ESL. WKU's library is somewhat limited in its selection of journals, as you are well aware and you are well aware of the reasons. Most journals assume previous knowledge of the jargon of the field of ESL and Linguistics and of methods already established, both of which can overwhelm a person looking for information about a specific student's problems.

The Kentucky TESOL Bulletin is a good beginning to get a feel for the types of things published and local approaches to TESOL. Others with information about ESL topics are Language and Learning, Language Problems and Language Planning, Language in Society, and a multitude of national and regional journals with TESOL in the name. There are quite a few. Most of the time the articles are more theoretical than practical.

For those of you who might want to see what books are used by ESL teachers/researchers, let me suggest two new ones:
Hinkel and Fotos' New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms and Barbara M. Birch's English L2 Reading. Both are part of the ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series published by Lawrence Erlbaum.

If you have specific needs in your search for information, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me. And let me volunteer my colleague, Ron Eckard, a man of infinite resources and much more knowledge than I will ever possess.