Content analysis of the professional journal of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, III: 1966-2015-into the 21st century

Using Data Mining, Text Mining, and Bibliometric Techniques to the Research Trends and Gaps in the Field of Language and Linguistics

This study adopted descriptive and explorative methods to analyze 2162 published documents, in general, and 1903 articles, in particular, in System from 1973 to 2020 based on the Scopus database. Data preprocessing and analysis were performed using data mining, text mining, and bibliometric techniques through Excel, VOSviewer, and RapidMiner software. To analyze the article titles and identify their themes, N-Grams was considered among the text mining techniques. From the data mining techniques, clustering was applied to explore the clusters of languages, educational technologies, technological spaces for foreign languages, etc. Bibliometric techniques such as co-authorship networks and citation analysis were in turn used to analyze the tops and trends of research in System. The results are classified into 5 categories including: (1) journal status; (2) publication trend; (3) articles with and without abstract/keyword; (4) highly-cited and uncited articles; (5) core and poor topics and keywords. The core topics are English as a Foreign Language, motivation, and second language acquisition. Among the languages, English, Chinese, and Japanese are at the top, and Italian, Danish, Persian, and Taiwanese are less discussed. Based on the findings, System has moved in line with its goals and scope, which are the applications of educational technology and applied linguistics to solve the problems of foreign language teaching and learning.

Talking points: Oral histories of Australian and British speech-language pathologists who qualified in the three decades after 1945

Purpose: There has been limited academic exploration of the history of speech-language pathology (SLP). This article uses oral histories to explore the experiences reported by speech-language pathologists who began to practise in Australia and Britain, two politically related, but geographically very distant and distinct countries, in the first three decades after the Second World War.Method: Archived oral history transcripts from eight Australian and sixteen British speech-language pathologists were analysed using thematic network analysis (TNA).Result: Two global themes are reported, "personal stories" and "professional stories". Transcripts revealed the ways in which participants negotiated the social and cultural expectations of their time and place and how they developed professional identity and autonomy as their careers progressed. While there were many commonalities, there were both between- and within-group differences in the ways the two cohorts reported the details of their career progression.Conclusion: This article offers a picture of the challenges and experiences of Australian and British speech-language pathologists in the second half of the twentieth century. It highlights some of the changes over time and forms the basis for comparison with current working practices in the two countries.