Studies of Teaching and Learning English- Listening Skill: A Review and Bibliometrics Analysis

Abstract

This study aimed to conducted a comprehensive historical review and bibliometric analysis of the literature on English-listening (EL) education and mapped the current state of the field, trends, and emerging topics, as well as identified gaps where further research is needed. We retrieved 630 sample documents on EL teaching and learning in Scopus (1958–2022) under certain conditions and analyzed the extracted data using Excel and VOSviewer 1.6.18 from the perspectives of the number of yearly publications, countries, authors, citation numbers, and keywords. The findings show that the number of publications on EL education increased from 1958 to 2022 with peak increase in 2019. Then, it decreased in 2020 and increased in 2021. However, in 2022 there was a decrease in publications due to a lack of sustained engagement with this topic by researchers. The research topics showed a multidimensional trend, covering communicative skills, language knowledge, assessment, teaching or learning methods, ICT-related applications, and cognitive factors, of which ICT-related applications (such as flipped classrooms, blended learning, and e-learning) and cognitive factors (such as motivation, anxiety, and affect) were the areas of focus.