Back to Normality? A Bibliometric Analysis of L2 Vocabulary Research 1989–93
Paul Meara
Swansea University and University of Oxford , United Kingdomhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8863-5374
Abstract
This paper is the latest in a series of studies published in LingBaW that contribute towards a historical review of research into L2 vocabulary acquisition. This instalment uses an author co-citation analysis (Small 1973) to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition published in 1993. Two analyses are presented. The first analysis provides a context for the 1993 data. It looks at work that was being cited in a five-year window covering 1989–93. The second analysis is a more detailed account of the 1993 research on its own terms. These analyses suggest that a surge in psycholinguistic research identified in 1992 may be a transient feature of the field. 1993 exhibits a return the patterns noted in our earlier studies, where the most significant influences come from an applied linguistics perspective.
Keywords:
L2 vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary research, bibliometric, author co-citationReferences
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