The Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia is a bibliographic database containing over 7000 records, which covers the teaching and learning of English as a second language in Australasia, and the related fields of literacy, applied linguistics, and second language learning, teaching and testing. Material from South East Asia has been included since mid 1997.

DELTAA indexes and abstracts books and book chapters, journals and journal articles, electronic articles, websites, theses, book reviews, research reports, government reports and multimedia. Material listed in DELTAA is available at the Resource Centre. You can use the Macquarie University Library Catalogue to search our whole collection.

DELTAA is produced in the Resource Centre of the Adult Migrant English Program Research Centre, at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The database is updated quarterly.

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Accessing the materials:

Loans are available within Australia to Resource Centre members. Photocopies of journal articles or book chapters are available at cost price, and are supplied subject to compliance with Australian copyright laws. Interlibrary loans are accepted and the usual ALIA voucher fees apply. Theses and special topics completed for post graduate degrees are not for loan.

Deltaa thesaurus:

The third edition of the DELTAA Thesaurus containing the subject headings used for indexing in DELTAA, is now available. 

Enquiries:

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