Shifting sands: A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1991

• Authors: Paul Meara

Abstracts

EN

This paper uses a co-citation analysis to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition that was published in 1991. Two analyses based on co-citations in this research are presented. The first analysis provides a context for the 1991 data. It looks at work that was being cited in a five-year window covering 1987-1991. The second analysis is a more detailed account of the 1991 research on its own terms.

Keywords

EN

L2 vocabulary acquisition; vocabulary research; bibliometric; author co-citation

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Linguistics Beyond and Within
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 112-132

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Paul Meara

• Swansea University
• University of Oxford

• https://orcid.org/0000000188635374

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/lingbaw.17019

Biblioteka Nauki

40225027