Creswell Literature Review

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EXTRANJEROS
INTEGRATIVE CURRICULUM RESEARCH
Student’s name: Luciana Nayely Jumbo Pardo
Teacher’s name: Mg. Sc. Miriam Troya Sánchez
Date: 15/05/2023
1. WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

• A literature review is a written summary of journal articles, books, and other
documents that describes the past and current state of information on the topic of
your research study
• You conduct a literature review to document how your study adds to the existing
literature.
• You also complete a literature review to provide evidence that educators need your
study. You may base this need on learning new ideas, sharing the latest findings
with others
• Builds your research skills of using the library and being an investigator who
follows leads in the literature, all useful experiences to have as a researcher
2. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES. Write examples from your own
theoretical framework
Literature reviews often contain both primary and secondary source materials.
Primary source literature consists of literature reported by the individual(s) who

actually conducted the research or who originated the ideas. Research articles published
by educational journals are an example of this type of source.
Example:
According to Akhmetshin, Ibatullin, Gapsalamov, Vasilev, and Bakhvalov (2019), the

visual aspect in the form most accessible to perception and memorization, as well as
describes it as something that is utilized to create a specific impact or to explain
something.
Secondary source literature, however, is literature that summarizes primary sources. It

does not represent material published by the original researcher or the creator of the idea
Example:
Gesture serves as an inadvertent teacher; the speaker has no intention of instructing, but
the specific gestural depiction of the speech may allow a less informed listener to assume
the meaning of words unfamiliar to them (Calbris, 1990 as cited in Cao and Chen, 2017).
3. TYPES OF LITERATURE REVIEW

a. Thematic review: In a thematic review of the literature, the researcher identifies
a theme and briefly cites literature to document this theme. In this approach, the
author discusses only the major ideas or results from studies rather than the detail
of any single study
b. Study-by-study review: The study-by-study review of the literature provides a
detailed summary of each study grouped under a broad theme. When presenting a
study-by-study review, authors link summaries (or abstracts) by using transitional
sentences, and they organize the summaries under subheadings that reflect themes
and major divisions
4. DATABASES
By examining these databases, you can easily access hundreds of journal articles on
educational topics. Computerized databases also facilitate searching the literature for
conference papers and miscellaneous publications, such as papers from professional
associations or education agencies.
1. ERIC (1991) is a national system of information in education. You can search this
extensive database both online and in print forms (available on the bookshelves
of academic libraries). Education documents allowed into the ERIC database are
selected mainly by reviewers at 16 sub content clearinghouses (e.g., Adult, Career,
and Vocational Education; Assessment and Evaluation). The ERIC database
consists of two parts: journals, located in the Current Index to Journals in
Education (CIJE; ERIC, 1969–), and documents, found in Resources in Education
(RIE; ERIC, 1966–)
2. Psychological Abstracts (APA, 1927), PsycLit (SilverPlatter Information,
Inc., 1986) and PsycINFO are important sources for locating research articles on
topics broadly related to psychology. These databases index more than 850
journals in 16 categories. They provide bibliographic citations, abstracts for
psychological journal articles, dissertations, technical reports, books, and book
chapters published worldwide
3. Sociological Abstracts (Sociological Abstracts, Inc., 1953). Available from
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, this database provides access to the world’s
literature in sociology and related disciplines.
4. The Social Science Citation Index (SSCI; Institute for Scientific Information
[ISI], 1969), Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI, 1989), provide a database of
cited references to journal articles.
5. EBSCO Information Services is a worldwide information service that provides
print and electronic subscription services, research database development and
production, and online access to more than 150 databases and thousands of e-
journals.
6. Dissertation Abstracts (University Microfilms International [UMI], 1938–
1965/66) and Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc (Computer File; UMI, 1987)
provide guides to doctoral dissertations submitted by nearly 500 participating
institutions throughout the world.
Bibliography
Creswell, J. (2012). Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating
Quantitative and Qualitative Research. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.

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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA

CARRERA DE PEDAGOGÍA DE LOS IDIOMAS NACIONALES Y

1. WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

Primary source literature consists of literature reported by the individual(s) who

According to Akhmetshin, Ibatullin, Gapsalamov, Vasilev, and Bakhvalov (2019), the

Secondary source literature, however, is literature that summarizes primary sources. It

3. TYPES OF LITERATURE REVIEW

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