Quantitative Analysis of Language Laboratory Research Papers in Foreign Language Teaching of University.

The use of language laboratory and relevant information technology in foreign language teaching is a necessary model and method in modern foreign language teaching. By using the full-text version of the Chinese Academic Journal Network Publication Database in CNKI, this thesis retrieves the statistic output of researches relating to laboratory use and makes a comparative study of the research distribution of time, periodicals, topics, authors and funding institutions. Then a Bibliometrics ' basic law is applied to investigate university language laboratory development process and its present situation, based on which the existing problems are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]