Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis

IF 3.2 1区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Ruiying Yang , Liang Xu , John M. Swales
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Abstract

As the most important journal for ESP research, The ESP Journal/English for Specific Purposes (ESPJ) is now more than 40 years old, having been launched in 1980. With source data from 705 articles published between 1980 and 2019 in ESPJ, we set out to trace the development of the journal in terms of the most frequently explored topics, the most highly cited ESPJ articles and the references of ESPJ articles, plus the changes in contributors with regard to countries/regions. The topic analyses highlight two broad trends in ESPJ over four decades. The first trend is the significantly increased focus on the analyses of target language varieties, which has grown in both research scope and depth. The second trend appears to be a shift from the coverage of a wide range of teaching issues in the 1980s to the primacy of writing and literacy since the 2000s. Given that the ability to use the target language variety to communicate effectively in writing is a main objective for the majority of ESP learners, ESPJ has been playing a leading role in the field by focusing more on issues central to this aspect of ESP teaching.

追踪四十年来(1980-2019)专用英语的发展:文献计量学分析
《特殊用途英语期刊》创刊于1980年,至今已有40多年的历史,是ESP研究领域最重要的期刊。我们利用1980年至2019年间发表在《ESPJ》上的705篇文章的源数据,从最常被探索的主题、最常被引用的ESPJ文章、ESPJ文章的引用以及不同国家/地区贡献者的变化等方面追踪该期刊的发展。主题分析突出了四十年来ESPJ的两大趋势。第一个趋势是对目的语变体分析的关注显著增加,研究范围和深度都有所增加。第二个趋势似乎是,从20世纪80年代对广泛教学问题的覆盖,到21世纪头十年以来,写作和读写能力的首要地位发生了转变。考虑到使用目标语言多样性进行有效的书面交流是大多数ESP学习者的主要目标,ESPJ通过更多地关注ESP教学这方面的核心问题,一直在该领域发挥着主导作用。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
5.70
自引率
8.00%
发文量
41
审稿时长
62 days
期刊介绍: English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.
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