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

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2020
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Wydawnictwo KUL
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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.
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L2 vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary research, bibliometric analysis
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"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2020, Vol. 6, pp. 111-129
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7088
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Linguistics Beyond and Within, 2020, Vol. 6