A RetrospectiveProspective Mapping of Roshd FLT:

This study sought to provide empirically-grounded evidence for two important research questions. The first purpose of the study, subscribing to research synthetic techniques, was to examine the cumulative status of substantive and methodological research issues in Roshd FLT Journal. We synthesized a sample of 160 empirical articles which were distributed over a 35-year period. The findings revealed that “researching L2 skills” was the most prevalently represented topics in the corpus across different age groups and time span. Our findings further indicated that quantitative research approaches were conducted more frequently than other approaches, though practitioner research was almost solely missing. The second purpose of the study, adhering to bibliometric analysis, was to map the authorship and collaboration in the journal. Based on the findings, the most frequently represented collaborative profile was related to those co-authors who are working in different institutions. However, International collaboration was almost absent in the corpus. The results further reveal that the degree of collaboration is 71.42% in Roshd FLT. The average number of authors per paper is 1.75. Implications for the research consumers are discussed.