The British are coming…! A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1988

• Authors: Paul Meara

Title variants

PL

The British are coming…! A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1988

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper uses a co-citation analysis to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition that was published in 1988. Two analyses are presented. The first is a detailed account of the 1988 research on its own terms. The second analysis places this work in a larger context by looking at the research published in a five-year window covering 1984–88. The analyses identify important themes in the research and significant sources who are influencing the way the research is developing at this time. A particularly important new research theme centred around corpus linguistics appears in the 1988 data, and there are some surprising changes to the list of influential sources.

Keywords

EN

L2 vocabulary acquisition; vocabulary research; bibliometric analysis

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Linguistics Beyond and Within
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 111-129

Dates

published

2020-12-30

Contributors

author

Paul Meara

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/lingbaw.11835