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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. 8.7% 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%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
8.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+317%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Foreign Language Teaching Methods research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (2k and 949 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 2k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 949 works
  3. 3 Uzbekistan 496 works
  4. 4 China 249 works
  5. 5 United States 224 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 222 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 154 works
  8. 8 Kyrgyzstan 88 works
  9. 9 Mozambique 66 works
  10. 10 ?? 62 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: 44.8%Ukraine: 20.9%Uzbekistan: 10.9%China: 5.5%6 others listed: 18.0%45%largest
Russia2,033 · 44.8%Ukraine949 · 20.9%Uzbekistan496 · 10.9%China249 · 5.5%6 others listed816 · 18.0%

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

Which institutions lead Foreign Language Teaching Methods research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Moscow State Pedagogical University publishes the most Foreign Language Teaching Methods research, followed by Pedagogical University and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 79 works
  2. 2 Pedagogical UniversityMozambique 66 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 57 works
  4. 4 Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 53 works
  5. 5 Kyrgyz State National UniversityKyrgyzstan 49 works
  6. 6 Financial UniversityRussia 46 works
  7. 7 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 46 works
  8. 8 Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan 44 works
  9. 9 National University of UzbekistanUzbekistan 40 works
  10. 10 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 39 works

Where is Foreign Language Teaching Methods research done?

The largest centres of Foreign Language Teaching Methods research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 615 works
  2. 2 Tashkent Uzbekistan 229 works
  3. 3 Kyiv Ukraine 222 works
  4. 4 Saint Petersburg Russia 162 works
  5. 5 Kharkiv Ukraine 114 works
  6. 6 Kazan’ Russia 93 works
  7. 7 Almaty Kazakhstan 88 works
  8. 8 Bishkek Kyrgyzstan 73 works
  9. 9 Samarkand Uzbekistan 66 works
  10. 10 Maputo Mozambique 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NukusUZ · 31.4 works93×
  2. NavoiyUZ · 25.7 works92×
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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, Kazan Federal University, Moscow State Pedagogical University and Tambov State 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%10%20%30%mean 12.18%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Kazan Federal University: 53, 10.0%Moscow State Pedagogical University: 79, 7.5%Tambov State University: 21, 24.9%Pedagogical University: 66, 2.6%Moscow State University: 21, 12.0%Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University: 21, 23.7%Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University: 27, 11.5%St Petersburg University: 25, 11.8%Herzen University: 33, 8.3%Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: 22, 9.5%Tambov State Univers…Kazan Federal Univer…Moscow State Pedagog…Pedagogical University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 69.610.0%36.3×53 +1139.9%
2 Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 69.27.5%149.1×79 +730.7%
3 Tambov State UniversityRussia 68.924.9%91.6×21 —
4 Pedagogical UniversityMozambique 68.52.6%122.8×66 +907.2%
5 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 67.412.0%14.8×21 +115.8%
6 Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 67.423.7%88.4×21 —
7 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 65.511.5%23.7×27 +1068.7%
8 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 64.311.8%9.8×25 +530.1%
9 Herzen UniversityRussia 62.78.3%72.3×33 +1565.4%
10 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 61.49.5%14.7×22 +683.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Foreign Language Teaching Methods research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 317% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Foreign Language Teaching Methods.

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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.