TEACHING AND LEARNING STYLES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY

Abstract

A documentary review was conducted on the production and publication of research papers related to studying the variables of Learning Styles and Pedagogy in English. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2022 and to identify the current situation in Ecuadorian institutions regarding the study of the variables above, achieving the identification of 34 publications in total. The information provided by the said platform was organized through graphs and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that the United States, with 6 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Teaching and Learning Styles in Higher Education for Pedagogy in English was Social Sciences, with 30 published documents. The Type of Publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the Journal Article, representing 62% of the total scientific production.