Open AccessCharacteristics and Trends of English Testing Research in China: Visual Analysis Based on CiteSpace
Author(s) -
Na Ming
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
region - educational research and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2661-4634
pISSN - 2661-4626
DOI - 10.32629/rerr.v3i3.386
Subject(s) - formative assessment , summative assessment , china , field (mathematics) , computer science , mathematics education , psychology , geography , archaeology , mathematics , pure mathematics
This thesis aims to have a visualized analysis of English testing from 1995 to 2020 in China with the help of the Scientometric software CiteSpace by drawing a map of keyword co-occurrence, time zone, and author cooperation network as well as scientific research institution cooperation network. It found that the cooperation between the authors is not strong and so do the research institutions. Besides, research focus detected mainly include college English, formative assessment, assessment, college English teaching, summative assessment and language testing. And according to the map of time zone, this research field is constantly moving towards enrichment and refinement. Finally, based on the mapping knowledge domains drawn by CiteSpace, the future development trends and deficiencies of this research are summarized.