Exploration and Analysis on Frontier of Language Transfer Research in China

In view of the current situation of language transfer research in China, it takes research papers on language transfer published in core journals included in CNKI database as the research object, draws the scientific knowledge graph of language transfer research in China with the help of bibliometrics visualization tool CiteSpaceV, and discusses the hotspots and frontiers of language transfer research in China. It is found that in recent years, research on language transfer in China mainly focus on language structure and concept transfer, and take “Second language acquisition”, “Interlanguage”, “Markedness”, “Language structure transfer”, “Concept transfer”, “Third language acquisition” and “Multilingual” as research frontiers.