키워드 네트워크 분석을 활용한 영어교육관련 연구 동향 분석

Research and trends in English language education from 1990 to 2019: A keyword analysis of published articles in English Language Teaching

The purpose of this critical review of the literature is to identify the characteristics of keywords between two periods (2000-2009 and 2010-2019) and relations among the research keywords. This study conducted a series of keyword analysis of the articles published by English Language Teaching for 20 years. A total of 814 (2000-2009: 412, 2010-2019: 402) research articles were analyzed in terms of publication year, author, and keywords. The results using a data-mining software, Netminer4, demonstrated that most of main research topics were in tandem with theoretical backgrounds and applicable concepts within the communicative language teaching approach. Common research topics from the frequency analysis included ‘communicative competence’, ‘motivation’, ‘reading comprehension’, ‘teacher education’, and ‘listening comprehension.’ One of the distinctive features between two periods was that in the 2000-2009 period research interest was on the application and utility of multimedia in English learning while in the latter period, a considerable number of studies highlighted internal factors affecting language learning, such as learner motivation and learner perception. Additionally, the analysis of keywords based on centrality analysis revealed that the extension of the research topics and the close association among those topics has been gradually prominent through 20 years. (195 words)