Wu Shujie, Shafait Zahid
Institute of Higher Education, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China.
College of Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China.
Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2024 Aug 7;14(8):2282-2299. doi: 10.3390/ejihpe14080152.
Cultural teaching is the underlying core component of English as Foreign Language (EFL) education. Although the previous literature has intensely studied this theme, a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research characteristics and trends in this field is still lacking regarding cultural teaching in EFL education. This study aims to explore the research distribution, research hot topics, and research the trends of EFL cultural teaching by conducting a bibliometric analysis of 358 articles on Web of Science using CiteSpace. The analysis leads to the following three findings: (a) The countries that teach EFL prevail in terms of number of publications but lag behind in terms of research influence, and a global academic community has not taken shape. (b) Interculturality is the central theme, encompassing a range of related topics such as intercultural competence, intercultural communication, and cultural awareness, with key teachers, learners, and textbooks as research perspectives. (c) Multilingual turn has emerged as a prominent new trend, which emphasizes the importance of cultural diversity and pays more attention to source/native languages and cultures. Furthermore, possible measures of promoting interculturality were discussed on the basis of relevant literature studies. In addition, scholars are suggested to pay more academic attention to the research and practices of EFL countries.
文化教学是外语教育的核心组成部分。尽管以往的文献对这一主题进行了深入研究，但对于外语教育中的文化教学，仍缺乏对该领域研究特征和趋势的全面文献计量分析。本研究旨在通过使用CiteSpace对Web of Science上的358篇文章进行文献计量分析，探索外语文化教学的研究分布、研究热点和研究趋势。分析得出以下三个结果：（a）在外语教学方面，发表文章数量占优的国家在研究影响力方面却落后，尚未形成全球学术共同体。（b）跨文化性是核心主题，涵盖了一系列相关主题，如跨文化能力、跨文化交际和文化意识，以关键教师、学习者和教材为研究视角。（c）多语言转向已成为一个突出的新趋势，它强调文化多样性的重要性，并更加关注源语言/母语及文化。此外，在相关文献研究的基础上讨论了促进跨文化性的可能措施。此外，建议学者们对外语国家的研究和实践给予更多学术关注。
