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

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Paul Meara
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Research Theme ◽  
New Research ◽  
L2 Vocabulary ◽  
The Way

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.

scholarly journals A time for consolidation: A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research 1985–1989

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Paul Meara
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Significant Source ◽  
Substantial Growth ◽  
L2 Vocabulary ◽  
The Way

This paper uses a co-citation analysis to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition that was published in 1989. Two analyses are presented. The first is a detailed account of the 1989 research on its own terms. The second analysis places this work in a larger context by looking at research published in a five-year window covering 1985–89. The analyses identify important themes in the research and significant sources who are influencing the way the research is developing at this time. The main features of this work are the substantial growth in dictionary and corpus research, and the emergence of Paul Nation as the Most Significant Source in 1989.

scholarly journals A new beginning? A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1985

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 136-154
Author(s):  
Paul Meara
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Research Front ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

This paper uses a co-citation analysis to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition that was published in 1985. This year seems to mark a kind of transition in the field. Unlike the earlier years analysed in this series of papers, 1985 shows signs of a coherent L2 vocabulary research front developing. The number of papers that qualify for inclusion is much greater than in previous years, and the analysis suggests that recognisable research themes are beginning to be clearly articulated.

scholarly journals Laying the foundations: A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1982-1986

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 108-128
Author(s):  
Paul Meara
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

This 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.

Two steps backwards: A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1984

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Paul Meara
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
L2 Vocabulary ◽  
The Way

This paper is the fourth instalment in a series of studies which attempt to plot the way research in L2 vocabulary acquisition has developed over the last fifty years. Earlier papers have analysed the research for 1982, 1983 and 2006 (Meara 2012, 2014, 2015). This paper follows on directly from my analysis of the 1983 research, and it uses the same bibliometric techniques that were used in the earlier papers: the co-citation methodology, first developed by Small (1973) and White and Griffith (1981). The analysis of the 1984 data shows some consolidation of the main research themes, but for the most part the L2 vocabulary research published in this year continues to be made up of small research clusters, sharing few common points of reference.

scholarly journals Steady as she goes? A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1987

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
Paul Meara
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

This paper uses a co-citation analysis to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition that was published in 1987. This year is surprisingly volatile compared with the previous year, 1986, with a very large number of new sources appearing in the maps, and many sources identified in previous years losing their influence in the research papers that make up the 1987 data set. The paper also reports a larger analysis of all the work that appeared in a five year window from 1983–1987. This larger data set is not quite as volatile as the smaller 1987 data set, but it suggests that some sources who dominated the co-citation maps in earlier years are losing their influence.

scholarly journals Dispersion and frequency: Is there any difference as regards their relation to L2 vocabulary gains?

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Alcaraz-Mármol
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Reliable Predictor ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
L2 Vocabulary ◽  
The Way

<p>Despite the current importance given to L2 vocabulary acquisition in the last two decades, considerable<br />deficiencies are found in L2 students’ vocabulary size. One of the aspects that may influence vocabulary<br />learning is word frequency. However, scholars warn that frequency may lead to wrong conclusions if the way<br />words are distributed is ignored. That is to say, it seems that not only the number of occurrences (frequency)<br />might affect L2 vocabulary acquisition, but also the way occurrences are distributed (distribution). This<br />relationship between these two factors is represented by the so-called Gries’ index, known as dispersion. The<br />present study aims to find out whether dispersion is more an accurate and reliable predictor for L2 vocabulary<br />learning than frequency only.</p>

FBI and Religion

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interdisciplinary Assessment ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This volume is an interdisciplinary assessment of the relationship between religion and the FBI. We recount the history of the FBI’s engagement with multiple religious communities and with aspects of public or “civic” religion such as morality and respectability. The book presents new research to explain roughly the history of the FBI’s interaction with religion over approximately one century, from the pre-Hoover period to the post-9/11 era. Along the way, the book explores vexed issues that go beyond the particulars of the FBI’s history—the juxtaposition of “religion” and “cult,” the ways in which race can shape the public’s perceptions of religion (and vica versa), the challenges of mediating between a religious orientation and a secular one, and the role and limits of academic scholarship as a way of addressing the differing worldviews of the FBI and some of the religious communities it encounters.

Theorizing Corporate Governance: Organizational Alternatives

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Learmount
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Social Controls ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Way

In this paper I contrast ‘economic’ and ‘organizational’ approaches to corporate governance, in order to draw out some of their distinctive features and discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses. I identify some promising areas of new research that examine the role of social controls and trust for the way that companies are governed. Although these are fairly embryonic, I argue that they call into question the hegemony of economic theories in theorizing the governance of the corporation. I conclude by advocating a re-consideration and broadening of the current conceptual scope of corporate governance, so as to facilitate and encourage other potentially valuable ways of exploring and understanding how companies are governed.

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