This bibliometric analysis examined published research on multilingualism and inclusive classroom practices in English Language Teaching retrieved from the Scopus database from 2017 to 2025. Guided by three research questions, the study mapped publication trends, leading journals, authors, institutions, and dominant thematic clusters across 56 articles using VOSviewer for keyword co-occurrence visualization. The findings revealed a steady acceleration in publication output over the analyzed window, with inclusive education and English language teaching emerging as the dominant theoretical anchors of the field. The United States and Indonesia led the field in research output, followed by a globally distributed tier including Poland, Iran, Spain, and South Africa. The University of Warsaw (3 publications) and Isfahan University of Technology (2 publications) ranked as the most productive institutions, while Chan and Lo, Lau and Shea, and Nijakowska et al. registered as the most cited authors. The keyword analysis clustered scholarship around inclusive, multilingual, EFL/ESL, and higher education strands, with peripheral domains such as decolonization and disability-inclusive pedagogy remaining underdeveloped. The findings provide a foundation for advancing evidence-based, multilingual, and equitable ELT research through the next decade.
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This study presents a bibliometric analysis of writing anxiety research in English language education from 2016 to 2026 using 138 Scopus-indexed journal articles. Employing performance analysis and science mapping through Biblioshiny, it examines publication trends, influential journals, highly cited studies, leading countries, and emerging research themes. Findings reveal that the field is anchored on the interconnected constructs of writing anxiety, writing self-efficacy, and writing performance, with publication output increasing markedly after 2021, reflecting post-pandemic and AI-assisted learning contexts. Citation analysis identifies the foundational contributions of Tahmouresi and Papi, Rahimi, and Sabti et al., while author productivity remains concentrated among a small group of recurring scholars. China emerged as the most influential country in terms of citations, followed by Malaysia, the United States, Turkey, and New Zealand, highlighting the dominance of Asian and other non-Western EFL contexts. Despite sustained growth, the field exhibits limited international collaboration and underrepresentation of Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and much of Europe. The study recommends expanding database coverage, strengthening cross-country collaboration, and examining writing anxiety within AI-mediated writing environments and diverse learner populations. The findings provide a comprehensive overview of research trends and offer a benchmark for future scholarship and pedagogical innovation in English language education.
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