Congratulations to Dr. Yachao Sun for his recently published paper Research trends in ‘trans-’ studies on writing: A bibliometric analysis in System, describing the research trends of ‘trans-’ studies on writing by analyzing 165 journal articles from a bibliometric approach.
The paper was written based on Dr. Sun’s CSCC Faculty Pilot Research Project, titled A Bibliometric Approach to Translingual Practices in Applied Linguistics. The study concentrates on (1) the most highly cited authors and articles and (2) the most frequently discussed concepts and their changes over the past decade. The results reveal that translingual practice, a concept that is mainly developed by Suresh Canagarajah (2013a, 2013b, 2015, 2018), has been increasingly adopted to illustrate language practices in writing processes, whereas some terms, such as translingual writing, code-switching, code-meshing, and monolingualism, have been decreasingly discussed due to some misunderstandings of those terms and the relatively stable conceptualization of ‘trans-’ terms.
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