Abstract
Using 328 papers published in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) journals from the Web of Science between 2009 and 2018, this study analyzed corpus’ influences in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) research with mapping knowledge domains CiteSpace. This study found that the relationship between international EAP studies and corpus tends to increasingly tight in the past ten years. Corpus in EAP study mainly acts as the methodology that EAP is studied by means of self-building or existing corpora using retrieval software together with statistical analysis method. International scholars pay more attention to writing teaching, academic literacy and discourse/discourse analysis in EAP study, and the co-cited references mostly tend to the genres study of EAP.
Highlights
EAP (English for Academic Purposes), as a branch of ESP (English for Specific Purposes), is one of the directions in the college English teaching reform
Using 328 papers published in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) journals from the Web of Science between 2009 and 2018, this study analyzed corpus’ influences in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) research with mapping knowledge domains CiteSpace
Corpus in EAP study mainly acts as the methodology that EAP is studied by means of self-building or existing corpora using retrieval software together with statistical analysis method
Summary
EAP (English for Academic Purposes), as a branch of ESP (English for Specific Purposes), is one of the directions in the college English teaching reform. EAP can be divided into English for EGAP (General Academic Purposes) and ESAP (English for Specific Academic Purposes). With the development of the "Double Top" university plan, the traditional teaching model of college English has stepped into a bottleneck period. A thorough reform must be carried out to break through this bottleneck and that is precisely the chance of EAP. Corpus-based teaching and research methods have been introduced into EAP teaching and study and have become an innovation in EAP in terms of the methodology. It is necessary to grasp the overall development of EAP in the past ten years, to clarify the hot issues of international EAP in the past ten years, and to explore the breadth and depth of corpus-based or corpus-driven EAP research
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