Life before Nation
Bibliometrics and L2 vocabulary studies in 1982
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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