40 Years of Applied Linguistics: Investigating Content Areas, Research Methods, and Statistical Techniques
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Reza Khany
Reza Khany is an Associate Professor of English (applied linguistics) at University of Ilam, in Iran. His research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, Pragmatics, and Psycholinguistics.
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Khalil Tazik
Khalil Tazik is a PhD student of English (applied linguistics) at University of Ilam, in Iran. His research efforts have focused on Discourse Analysis and Psycholinguistics.
Abstract
This review study was designed to map out the research trends through an intensive text analysis of 1,366 research articles (RAs) of applied linguistics during the past 40 years (from 1976 to 2015). RAs were coded and analyzed by four analysts to identify their content of research, research methods, and statistical procedures. It was found that there has been an increase in the number and the average length of articles. The average length has been on the rise from 8.09 pages in 1976-1985 to 14.38 during 2006-2015. The extensive review of the RAs also revealed a broad range of themes that belonged to 34 research domains. SLA, Technology & Language Learning, Language Teaching Methodology, Language Testing, and Psycholinguistics were the most widely researched areas. The qualitative method with 33.97% was the dominant research method in the journals. Regarding the statistical techniques, it was illustrated that descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, ANOVA, and t-test were the most commonly used procedures in the applied linguistic RAs.
About the authors
Reza Khany is an Associate Professor of English (applied linguistics) at University of Ilam, in Iran. His research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, Pragmatics, and Psycholinguistics.
Khalil Tazik is a PhD student of English (applied linguistics) at University of Ilam, in Iran. His research efforts have focused on Discourse Analysis and Psycholinguistics.
Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to their colleagues for their kind help and support. They are also grateful to the editor of the journal and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on this review.
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