Speaking and writing are the most important and productive language skills. Through speaking and writing, students can convey and formulate thoughts, feelings, or assessments about any area of science and life in the spoken and composed form. As far as the English educational process, the students’ creative thinking ability to reason is considered to make a few impacts and assume significant parts as they are learning English, and it, consequently, impacts the manner in which they figure out how to write and speak. This study demonstrates a bibliometric analysis of the creative thinking edition from the Scopus database from 1991-2023. In this research study we try to collect all Scopus-based 781 publications for 32 years involving creative thinking, speaking and writing skills as keywords. This study reports the outcomes using standard bibliometric indicators: (1) the present state of publication of creative thinking, (2) subject areas in creative thinking, (3) keyword analysis, (4) publishing authors, (5) geographical distribution of publication, and (6) most productive institutions in creative thinking. The VOSviewer software was used as a program for building and displaying bibliometric networks obtained through the Scopus database in this paper. The majority of this perceptive data provides the current level and development of creative thinking in speaking and writing abilities.  

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