Meara, Paul2024-05-202024-05-202018"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2018, Vol. 4, pp. 108-1282450-5188https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7113This paper uses a co-citation analysis to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition that was published in 1986. This year seems to mark a serious consolidation of L2 vocabulary research, with the main themes of future research appearing. The paper also reports a larger analysis of all the work that appeared in a five-year window from 1982-1986. This analysis clearly shows the beginnings of a recognisable research focus on L2 vocabulary acquisition, though this work is influenced by some surprising sources, who do not figure in more recent work in the field.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/L2 vocabulary acquisitionvocabulary researchbibliometric analysisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/lingbaw.5669