Research on the Trends and Hot Topics of American Applied Linguistics: Analysis of the Changes of Strands and High-Frequency Words in AAAL Annual Conferences from 1999 to 2019

• Jin 金蓓, Bei ^[1] ; Zhang 张榴琳, Liulin ^[2]
  1. [1] Huazhong Agricultural University

     Huazhong Agricultural University

     China

     
  2. [2] Soochow University

     Soochow University

     China

     
• Localización: Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, ISSN-e 1576-4737, Nº. 87, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Monograph: Tense, Aspect and Modality in L2. Recent Applied Studies), págs. 143-151
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • 美国应用语言学发展趋势和热点––1999-2019年AAAL年会线程变化和高频词分析
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    This paper aims to explore the trends and hot topics of American applied linguistics by the content analysis of AAAL annual conferences’ handbooks. Making a diachronic research on topical strands of AAAL Conference from 1999 to 2019, the paper studies the dynamics and the trends of American applied linguistics by analyzing the changes of the strands in the conferences under study in 20 years. Based on self-built corpora of titles and abstracts of the presented papers in 2019 AAAL Annual Conference, high-frequency vocabulary and their collocations are detected by TagCrowd and AntConc in order to find the current hot topics of applied linguistics research. The conclusion is that the development of applied linguistics has speeded up in the past four years. Educational linguistics, corpus linguistics, research methodology, teacher education, lexical research, phonetics/phonology and oral communication are the new trends in this field. The hot words of applied linguistics in 2019 include academic writing, teacher education, Chinese and translanguaging. Finally, the study found that retrospective review study of international conferences could be a new research method in the field of review study, providing scholars with a comprehensive understanding of the discipline dynamics over a period of time

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    本文旨在通过AAAL年会的会议内容分析美国应用语言学的发展趋势和热点。以1999年-2019年AAAL会议的线程（strands）为历时研究对象，通过分析线程的变化透视国际应用语言学的动态和趋势；聚焦2019年AAAL会议论文的标题和摘要自建小型语料库，以TagCrowd和AntConc为语料库分析工具，研究会议高频词汇和相关搭配，以期发现应用语言学研究的当下热点。研究发现近四年应用语言学进入了高速发展阶段，教育语言学、语料库语言学、研究方法论等是该领域的发展趋势；2019年应用语言学的热词包括学术写作、教师教育、中文和超语；推测2020年应用语言学最新发展动态可能是神经语言学。最后，该研究发现对国际会议的回顾性研究可以比较全面地了解科研动态，可作为一个新的研究方法在综述领域推广。