Greetings to everyone from the second week of the finals! Although it feels like it will be an eternal one... Alright, where were we? Oh, yes our research topic: Inequality issue in English as a second and/or foreign language. Of course we started our research with initially reviewing the literature, what are the previous research regarding our topic and honestly we were unable to reach the most relevant articles due to usual restrictions and unfortunately Sci-hub as well was out of service. We have used several research engines such as ERIC,  ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Mendeley's literature search. About a month ago we opened Dropbox accounts and started to make our organizations through Dropbox by uploading our findings, conceptual maps and outlines, and so on. Then, we also thought that Mendeley can be very handy in organizing the articles in a library and adjusting citations and references. For those who d not know, Mendeley is a free reference and citation generator and it quite lightens your burden when you struggling to work on your research papers. You can alternatively use Zotero and check which works best for you. 

After downloading it and creating our group (Chamber of Mercury), we were able to collaboratively read the articles we have found in an organized manner and thus I and my dear colleagues highly recommend this tool if you are planning to do exhaustive research studies in your field. 

There are a few issues I would like to reproach, which is that the number of articles in our research area is quite limited; we faced limitations when we tried to access full versions of the articles which we found most relevant to our research study. It is sad on the one hand that such an important issue has not received enough attention, and on the other hand, it puts more responsibility on us in investigating the causes of inequalities and proposing realistic solutions. 

When the final week is over, I will update here again and I will be sharing the developments we have made with my group members. Until then, take good care of yourself and if you are in the exam period, I wish you good luck!!!