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December 8, 2025Cogent EducationOpen Access

Mapping the evolution and future directions of language education research: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis

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SJSongyu JiangKNKanokporn NumtongHWHan Wang

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Overview

Bibliometric analysis identifies trends in language education research, highlighting positive psychology and AI tools like chatbots.

Key Points

  • This analysis aims to map the trends and future directions of language education research.
  • Analyzed 3,326 scientific publications from the Web of Science Core Collection.
  • Employed bibliometric analysis to interpret the collected data.
  • Used tools like CiteSpace and R to visualize knowledge maps of language education.
  • Identified significant growth trends in language education research over the years.
  • Highlighted contributions from scholars in North America and China.
  • Outlined current research focuses, such as positive psychology, translanguaging, and machine translation.

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Jiang et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69362f694fa91c937236df7chttps://doi.org/10.1080/2331186x.2025.2596418
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