A Review of Foreign Studies on Third Language Acquisition

Abstract

The article employs CiteSpace analysis tool and the visualization method of bibliometrics to analyze the knowledge structure of the third language acquisition field in the past 30 years based on 221 foreign research articles from Web of Science core journal database. The study finds and combs the main research frontiers and development evolution processes in the field of third language acquisition through cluster analysis and co-citation analysis, which helps to grasp the knowledge structure and development context in third language acquisition, and provides enlightenment for the research in the field of third language acquisition in China.