Exploring Trends and Gap in Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching Researches: A Bibliometric and Content Analysis Farah Siddique

Abstract

This study examines the changing relationship between sociolinguistics and language education research, using bibliometric and text analysis to find trends and gaps. This study uses a vast body of literature to highlight repeating themes, trends, and prospective research routes to illuminate the dynamic nature of many fields. Careful analysis in this work illuminates sociolinguistics and language training and suggests intriguing new research options. The researchers asked five questions to examine sociolinguistics and language education trends and gaps from 2015–2023. Language, teaching, English, teachers, learning, communication, linguistics, competency, foreign language, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and English are the most often discussed terms by scholars. They receive less attention for solutions, investigation, contributions, learning processes, perceptions, challenges, and texts. Thus, these areas offer specialized research topics for future researchers. This suggests that linguistics in language instruction has many intriguing areas to examine. The study suggests that communication skills should promote high-quality sociolinguistics and language instruction research, knowledge dissemination through several channels, and collaborations to boost influential studies.