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Foreign Language Teaching Methods

Foreign Language Teaching Methods is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of distance education, online learning, and educational technology on student engagement, cognitive abilities, and pedagogical management. It also delves into the development of digital competence, remote teaching methods, and the use of interactive learning methods in higher education.

  • Distance Education
  • Online Learning
  • Educational Technology
  • Student Engagement
  • E-Learning
  • Digital Competence
  • Remote Teaching
  • Pedagogical Management
  • Interactive Methods
  • Cognitive Abilities
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Foreign Language Teaching Methods research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (2.2k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2.2k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 1.1k works
  3. 3 Uzbekistan 654 works
  4. 4 United States 289 works
  5. 5 China 265 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 240 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 159 works
  8. 8 Kyrgyzstan 99 works
  9. 9 Mozambique 79 works
  10. 10 Azerbaijan 68 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Russia: 43.3%Ukraine: 20.5%Uzbekistan: 12.8%United States: 5.6%6 others listed: 17.8%43%largest
Russia2,222 · 43.3%Ukraine1,051 · 20.5%Uzbekistan654 · 12.8%United States289 · 5.6%6 others listed911 · 17.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Foreign Language Teaching Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Weatherford College publishes the most Foreign Language Teaching Methods research, followed by Moscow State Pedagogical University and Pedagogical University.

What are the most cited papers in Foreign Language Teaching Methods?

The most cited paper in Foreign Language Teaching Methods is "Human cognitive abilities a survey of factor-analytic studies" (John B. Carroll, 2004), with 3,426 citations. Next come "Preparing teachers for the application of AI-powered technologies in foreign language education" (483) and "The Scientific Basis of the Art of Teaching" (422).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Human cognitive abilities a survey of factor-analytic studies John B. Carroll 2004 3,426
2 Preparing teachers for the application of AI-powered technologies in foreign language education Silvia Pokrivčáková · Journal of language and cultural education Open access Dec 2019 483
3 The Scientific Basis of the Art of Teaching Robert F. McNergney, Nathaniel L. Gage · Educational Researcher Sep 1979 422
4 Flipped classroom in English language teaching: a systematic review Zeynep Turan, Birgul Akdag-Cimen · Computer Assisted Language Learning Review 26 Feb 2019 372
5 COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Jôzef Lucjusz Podgôrecki, Janusz Ropski · Historical and social-educational ideas Open access 23 Oct 2015 329
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Where is Foreign Language Teaching Methods research done?

The largest centres of Foreign Language Teaching Methods research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nukus and Navoiy.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 672 works
  2. 2 TashkentUzbekistan 287 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 250 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 174 works
  5. 5 KharkivUkraine 125 works
  6. 6 Kazan’Russia 104 works
  7. 7 AlmatyKazakhstan 96 works
  8. 8 SamarkandUzbekistan 85 works
  9. 9 WeatherfordUnited States 85 works
  10. 10 BishkekKyrgyzstan 80 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NukusUZ · 55.8 works103×
  2. NavoiyUZ · 30.5 works78×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Foreign Language Teaching Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Foreign Language Teaching Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Moscow State University and Financial University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tambov State Univers…Moscow State Univers…Financial UniversityWeatherford College
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 65.29.3%11.8×85 +65.9%
2Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 63.620.8%15.6×22 +26.5%
3Financial UniversityRussia 63.416.4%40.1×48 +53.4%
4Tambov State UniversityRussia 59.131.5%98.1×23 -9.5%
5Pedagogical UniversityMozambique 58.24.7%147.7×79 +2.8%
6Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 57.410.7%39.9×58 -4.0%
7Bogomolets National Medical UniversityUkraine 57.016.4%40.7×27 +155.6%
8Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan UniversityUkraine 56.211.0%76.3×36 +32.5%
9National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 54.128.1%2.5×9 +211.5%
10Kazan State Technological UniversityRussia 53.314.4%48.7×18 +0.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Foreign Language Teaching Methods, country by country

Is Foreign Language Teaching Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Foreign Language Teaching Methods.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Foreign Language Teaching Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Foreign Language Teaching Methods0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Foreign Language Teaching Methods over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Foreign Language Teaching Methods10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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