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In:The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 247] 2014
► pp. 111–130

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Life before Nation

Bibliometrics and L2 vocabulary studies in 1982

 | Swansea University, UK
Published online: 16 May 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.247.06mea
This paper presents a bibliometric analysis comparing the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition published in 1982 and 2006. A set of co-citation maps shows that there are some significant changes in the field over this period. The most important of these changes is a growing consensus in vocabulary research, mainly focussed on the work of Paul Nation, whose seminal book Teaching and Learning Vocabulary appeared in 1990. The data also suggest that the influence of cognitive psychologists – important in the 1982 data has become much weaker in the 2006 research. The paper argues that co-citation analysis provides a useful tool for exploring important trends in the intellectual history of vocabulary research.
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