Castañeda, Harold2019-09-192019-09-19http://hdl.handle.net/11349/18055There is little profiling academic research on discourse studies in relation to second language learning from a regional perspective. Thisstudy aims at unveiling what, when, where and who constitute scholarly work in research about these two interrelated fields. A dataset wasconfigured from registers taken from Dialnet and studied using specialized text-mining software. Findings revealed myriad research interests,few prolific years and the lack of networking. It is recommended to trace out our research as an ELT community locally and globally.application/pdftext/htmlDiscourse analysissecond language learningresearch profilingliterature reviewtext mininginfo:eu-repo/semantics/article