Visual Analysis of Chinese Documents on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Based on CiteSpace

Incidental vocabulary acquisition (IVA) plays a vital part in the field of L2 acquisition. It is critical for scholars to know comprehensively about research status and hotspots IVA future. This paper applies CiteSpace software visually analyze 616 articles from CNKI. turns out that: (1) There lack cooperation author author, institution institution. Meanwhile, between authors better than that institutions; (2) The hot topics this are divided into six parts: involvement load, reading, influencing factors, glossing, teaching empirical study; (3) development China roughly three stages: infancy period, rapid growth period stable period.