Utilization of Educational Technology in Bilingual Education: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Education packaged in bilingual classrooms is increasingly being offered in various developing and developed countries. One way to optimize learning outcomes in bilingual classrooms is to utilize technology in the learning process. This study aims to elaborate on the effectiveness of technology used in a bilingual classroom, the sources of technology used in bilingual classrooms, and the integration of technology using bibliometric analysis. This study covers a qualitative method utilizing a bibliometric approach operated in the R program. The 138 articles were collected from the Scopus database of research articles, reviews, conference articles, conference reviews, books, and book chapters from 1974-2022. Those studies originated from 36 countries using two languages. The nation with the most significant publication dealing with the theme is the United States. In addition, the information of the most often keywords and the most frequently trend of research published is addressed well in this study. This study reveals that the research trend dealing with making use of technology in bilingual education is increasing significantly started from 1874 up to 2022. The research dealing with it rise in the pandemic era. The trend of research is still going to be consistent on the interest with the four-research topic predicted to be trending in the future by the analysis. Those research topics are learning systems, computeraided instruction, content language integrated learning, and sign language. It can be implied that the support of educational parties to the improvements of bilingual education is still high and the following bilingual education researchers can meet the demand in educational technology by addressing those topics in their research.