Research Hotspots and Trends of French Learner Corpus: Visual Analysis Based on Citespace

Abstract

With the help of Citespace visualization software, based on the bibliometric method, this paper analyzes the development context, core authors, research hotspots and frontier trends of the research on the construction and application of French learner corpus in Scopus database from 1999 to 2024. It is found that the international corpus of French learners has shown a positive trend of continuous growth, which can be divided into two stages : germination stage and fluctuation growth stage. The core research focuses on second language acquisition and computer-assisted French teaching, with special attention to error analysis, verbal communication, pronunciation training, data-driven learning and so on. The topics of cross-language comparative research, data-driven instructional design and corpus annotation automation are the research frontiers. Through analysis, there are some problems in the existing research, such as the small scale of French corpus, the lack of research on Asian French learner corpus, the lack of integrated research on other factors such as multimodal data and context, and the need to strengthen interdisciplinary research.