Protocol for a scoping review on learning analytics in language education

Learning Analytics (LA) holds growing promise to inform language education, yet information on its application, pedagogical impact, and implementation challenges remains fragmented. This scoping review aims to systematically map existing primary research on the use of LA in language education. Following the SMART framework, this review will collect data by searching five major databases, EBSCO, ACM Digital Library, Scopus, Web of Science, and CNKI, with a predefined search strategy. It will include primary research focusing on LA in any language learning context across all educational levels and settings. Extracted data will be synthesised descriptively and thematically to report the purposes for which LA has been applied in language education, its pedagogical outcomes, the challenges impacting its implementation and the methodological approaches used in LA research. The findings are likely to inform future practice, research, and tool development on LA in language education contexts.