XIUWEN ZHAI (GUANGXI UNIVERSITY)

A TRI-METHOD APPROACH TO REVIEW ESP/EAP TEACHER EDUCATION : ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC/SPECIFIC PURPOSES

This paper presents a tri-approach analysis (i.e., bibliometric analysis, content analysis, and scientometric analysis) of studies on ESP/EAP teacher education from 1980 to 2023 with the tool CiteSpace.The research data (i.e.,500 papers) were retrieved from the core collection of Web of Science, SCOPUS, ERIC, and Google-scholar. The status-quo, the developmental route, and the research frontier of ESP/EAP teacher education were identified and visualized. The main research findings include: 1) the top 3 countries in the number of paper publications are the United States (i.e.,412), England (i.e.,165), and China (i.e.,163) ; 2) the top 2 authors in the number of paper publications are Simonova,I.(i.e.,8), and Basturkmen,H.(i.e.,5); and 3) the top 3 strengthen-keywords are professional development,education, and English.

Xiuwen Zhai  (Ph.D.) is currently an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Languages at Guangxi University. She has broad interests in English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, Teacher Education, and Second Language Acquisition.