Mapping Research on L2 Pronunciation

Abstract

This study reports on a bibliometric mapping analysis of L2 pronunciation research. Analyses on 629 articles published between 1977 and 2020 in 15 prestigious SSCI-indexed applied linguistics journals identified significant research themes and trends, influential authors, documents, and publication sources. The results of the analyses of citation impact, cocitation, and research trends provide valuable insights into understanding the dynamics, evolution patterns, and the intellectual background of L2 pronunciation research, thereby guiding future research and practice.

Mapping the research trends of third language acquisition: A bibliometric analysis based on Scopus

“…Previous studies have divided the period according to calendar decades ( Lei and Liu, 2019a , b ) or observations made by scholars ( Dong et al, 2022 ). However, following Demir and Kartal (2022) , we employed the non-parametric Mann-Kendall test and Pettitt’s test for change-point detection to identify a potential change point.…”

“…It has only been 5 years since Liao and Lei (2017) claimed that bibliometric studies on linguistics are in short supply. Recently, numerous bibliometric studies have been published within this field: applied linguistics ( de Bot, 2015 ; Liao and Lei, 2017 ; Gong et al, 2018 ; Chen et al, 2019 ; Lei and Liu, 2019a ), translation studies ( van Doorslaer and Gambier, 2015 ; Zanettin et al, 2015 ; Ping, 2021 ; Rovira-Esteva et al, 2021 ), education ( Hung and Zhang, 2012 ; Hernández et al, 2017 ; Gong et al, 2018 ), bilingualism and multilingualism ( Lin and Lei, 2020 ; Gutiérrez and Duque, 2021 ), discourse analysis ( Swales, 1986 ; White, 2004 ; Huan and Guan, 2020 ; Xiao and Li, 2021 ; Wang et al, 2022 ), L2 pronunciation research ( Demir and Kartal, 2022 ), L2 writing ( Arik and Arik, 2017 ; Sun and Lan, 2021 ; Swatek et al, 2022 ), language teaching and learning ( Jiang et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2021 ; Hiver et al, 2021 ; Hyland and Jiang, 2021 ; Bakelak and Reyes, 2022 ), among others.…”

Development of a pronunciation teaching perception scale (PTPS) for preservice English language teachers

“…However, the most recent research has focused on different areas of L2 pronunciation. In a state-of-the-art article, Demir and Kartal ( 2022 ) aimed at mapping and analyzing L2 pronunciation articles published between 1977 and 2020 and indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) in the Web of Science (WoS) database. As significant results, they revealed the influential sources, featured documents, and authors in the field.…”

Sketching the Landscape of Speech Perception Research (2000–2020): A Bibliometric Study

“…It employs statistical and data visualisation methods to examine bibliographic big data, covering a much larger scope of research items compared with traditional qualitative reviews. So far, the field of speech perception has not been investigated via bibliometric analysis, although there exist such attempts in neighbouring fields, such as linguistics ( Lei and Liao, 2017 ), applied linguistics ( Lei and Liu, 2019 ), and in some interdisciplinary topics, such as visual word recognition ( Fu et al, 2020 ), second language pronunciation ( Demir and Kartal, 2022 ) and multilingualism ( Lin and Lei, 2020 ).…”