Emerging Trends and Issues in English Language Teaching: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

English language has been considered a lingua franca and used as a medium of instruction in Pakistan. The English language has been taught with traditional methods of teaching, which fail to develop language competency among learners. The study has been designed to analyze Pakistan's emerging English teaching trends based on available literature. The data has been collected by secondary literature published in various research journals. The articles were selected by inclusion and exclusion criteria by searching with key words of English language teaching. We then selected various articles, read them, and used them as a resource. For this purpose, the content analysis was used by Braun and Clark (2006) by focusing on the content of the paper. It has been found that there needs to be more technology in language teaching and technological resources for teaching purposes, along with a shortage of language teaching skills and professional development of the teachers in English language teaching. Using technology in the classroom is recommended, adopting multi-model learning and communicative language teaching.