IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Papers
(The median citation count of IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Toward a transdisciplinary integration of research purposes and methods for complex dynamic systems theory: beyond the quantitative–qualitative divide29
The idiodynamic method: willingness to communicate and anxiety processes interacting in real time26
The associations between working memory and the effects of multimedia input on L2 vocabulary learning22
Testing a model of EFL teachers’ work engagement: the roles of teachers’ professional identity, L2 grit, and foreign language teaching enjoyment17
Measures of variability in transitional phases in second language development16
Measurement of engagement in the foreign language classroom and its effect on language achievement: the case of Chinese college EFL students15
Model texts in collaborative and individual writing among EFL children: noticing, incorporations, and draft quality14
The complex dynamics of adaptive teaching: observing teacher-student interaction in the language classroom14
Contribution of English aural vocabulary size levels to L2 listening comprehension13
Incorporating peer feedback in writing instruction: examining its effects on Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ writing performance13
The effects of task types on L2 oral production and learner engagement11
Classroom assessment and learning motivation: insights from secondary school EFL classrooms11
Unlearning the boundary-crossing constraint: processing instruction and the acquisition of motion event construal10
Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language9
Emergent bilinguals in a digital world: a dynamic analysis of long-term L2 development in (pre)primary school children9
Enjoyment in language teaching: a study into EFL teachers’ subjectivities9
Task complexity, task repetition, and L2 writing complexity: exploring interactions in the TBLT domain9
Concordancing in writing pedagogy and CAF measures of writing8
The predictive roles of enjoyment, anxiety, willingness to communicate on students’ performance in English public speaking classes8
Advanced learners’ responses to Chinese greetings in study abroad8
Role of individual differences in incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition through listening to stories: metacognitive awareness and motivation8
Validation of metacognitive knowledge in vocabulary learning and its predictive effects on incidental vocabulary learning from reading7
Learning aspect in Italian as additional language. The role of second languages7
The same cloze for all occasions?7
The use of interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) by L2 learners: the impact of age, gender, language learning experience, and L2 proficiency levels7
High school EFL teachers’ oral corrective feedback beliefs and practices, and the effects of lesson focus7
Lexical measures as a proxy for bilingual language dominance?6
Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners6
Examining resilience in EFL contexts: a survey study of university students in China6
Glossing and incidental vocabulary learning in L2 reading: a cognitive load perspective6
Lexical and grammatical collocations in beginning and intermediate L2 argumentative essays: a bigram study6
L3 acquisition of aspect: the influence of structural similarity, analytic L2 and general L3 proficiency6
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices5
Elicited metaphoric competence in a second language: a construct associated with vocabulary knowledge and general proficiency?5
Individual perceptions of group work environment, motivation, and achievement5
A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance5
The different effects of the ideal L2 self and intrinsic motivation on reading performance via engagement among young Chinese second-language learners5
Phraseological complexity and low- and intermediate-level L2 learners’ writing quality5
Enhancing English spatial prepositions acquisition among Spanish learners of English as L2 through an embodied approach5
“Am I really abroad?” The informal language contact and social networks of Chinese foundation students in the UK5
When are performance-approach goals more adaptive for Chinese EFL learners? It depends on their underlying reasons5
Revisiting after-class boredom via exploratory structural equation modeling5
Transdisciplinary research methods and complexity theory in applied linguistics: introduction to the special issue4
The influence of L1 script directionality and L2 proficiency on Hanzi learning among Arabic and English learners of L2 Chinese4
Connections between measured and assessed fluency in L2 peer interaction: a problem-solving perspective4
Immediate and long-term improvement in lexical stress perception: the role of teacher and peer feedback4
System mapping simplex spaces: facilitating change in L2 educational contexts from a complexity theory perspective4
Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading4
Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions4
Dynamic development of cohesive devices in English as a second language writing4
Measuring and profiling Chinese secondary school English teachers’ language mindsets: an exploratory study of non-native teachers’ perceived L2 proficiency loss4
The mediating roles of resilience and motivation in the relationship between students’ English learning burnout and engagement: a conservation-of-resources perspective4
The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading3
Acquisition of attributive adjectives and noun adjuncts by L3 learners of French and German: further evidence for the typological primacy model (TPM)3
Prior processing, foreign language classroom anxiety, and L2 fluency3
Exploring the professional role identities of English for academic purposes practitioners: a qualitative study3
Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement3
Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis3
The cross-sectional development of verb–noun collocations as constructions in L2 writing3
“They forget and forget all the time.” The complexity of teaching adult deaf emergent readers print literacy3
Analyzing trends in the aural decoding errors of Japanese EFL learners3
The effects of extensive reading on young Korean students’ construction development3
The influence of language contact and ethnic identification on Chinese as a second language learners’ oral proficiency3
Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development3
Pronunciation pedagogy in English as a foreign language teacher education programs in Vietnam3
Comparing motivational features between feedback givers and receivers in English speaking class3
Interculturality and Islam in Indonesia’s high-school EFL classrooms3
The role of working memory in the effects of models as a written corrective strategy3
Speaking proficiency development in EFL classrooms: measuring the differential effect of TBLT and PPP teaching approaches3
Multilingual pedagogies in first versus foreign language contexts: a cross-country study of language teachers3
Learning phrasal verbs in the EFL classroom: the effect of prior vocabulary knowledge and opacity3
The relationship between university EFL teachers’ oral feedback beliefs and practices and the impact of individual differences3
Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition3
Second language listening instruction and learners’ vocabulary knowledge3
A bibliometric analysis of the IRAL over the past six decades3
Validation of a multiple-choice implicature test: insights from Chinese EFL learners’ cognitive processes2
Focus on form in task repetition through oral and written task modeling2
L2 use of pragmatic markers in peer talk: Mandarin utterance-final particles2
Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity2
Explicit grammar instruction in the EFL classroom: studying the impact of age and gender2
The effect of collaborative prewriting on L2 collaborative writing production and individual L2 writing development2
Individual perceptions of group work environment, motivation, and achievement2
Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China2
Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications2
The impact of pragmalinguistic support on video-conferenced collaborative suggestion-giving task2
Understanding salient trajectories and emerging profiles in the development of Chinese learners’ motivation: a growth mixture modeling approach2
Image-schema-based-instruction enhanced L2 construction learning with the optimal balance between attention to form and meaning2
Functions, sociocultural explanations and conversational influence of discourse markers: focus on zenme shuo ne in L2 Chinese2
Understanding the Usefulness of E-Portfolios: Linking Artefacts, Reflection, and Validation2
Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing2
Exploring ESOL teachers’ perspectives on the language learning experiences, challenges, and motivations of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK2
L2 writing development through two types of writing task repetition2
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools2
(Mis) perception of consonant clusters and short vowels in English as a foreign language2
Exploring the learning benefits of collaborative writing in L2 Chinese: a product-oriented perspective2
How teaching modality affects Foreign Language Enjoyment: a comparison of in-person and online English as a Foreign Language classes2
Non-canonical word order as a measure of syntactic complexity in advanced L2 German2
Orchestrating listening in EMI university lectures: how listening proficiency and motivation shape students’ use of metacognitive listening strategies2
Transfer and unlearning of topic prominence by Chinese learners of English2
Aural vocabulary, orthographic vocabulary, and listening comprehension2
Listener engagement: the missing link in research on accented speech2
Online task planning and L2 oral fluency:does manipulating time pressure affect fluency in L2 monologic oral narratives?2
Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom2
When concept-based language instruction meets cognitive linguistics: teaching English phrasal verbs with up and out2
Investigating Indonesian EFL learners’ knowledge and use of English causative constructions2
N-gram use in EFL learners’ retelling and monologic tasks2
System mapping simplex spaces: facilitating change in L2 educational contexts from a complexity theory perspective2
Group trends and individual variability in writing development: a descriptive grammatical complexity analysis2
Low-level visual processing of motion events as a window into language-specific effects on perception2
Emotion labor in teacher collaboration: towards developing emotional reflexivity2
Teaching L2 Spanish idioms with semantic motivation: should this be done proactively or retroactively?2
The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance1
Motivation and growth in kanji proficiency: a longitudinal study using latent growth curve modeling1
The use of metadiscourse by secondary-level Chinese learners of English in examination scripts: insights from a corpus-based study1
Commentary: exploring “the pinch” of emotion labor in language teacher research1
We thought about it together and the solution came to our minds”: languaging linguistic problem-solving in multilingual Finnish classrooms1
English and Spanish speakers’ interpretations of L2 Chinese applicative double object constructions1
Exploring aural vocabulary knowledge for TOEIC as a language exit requirement in higher education in Taiwan1
Chinese EFL learners’ basic psychological needs satisfaction and foreign language emotions: a person-centered approach1
Intra-language: the study of L2 morpheme productivity as within-item variance1
The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective1
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in motion event conceptualisation in bilingual speakers of Spanish and English1
Fostering well-being in the university L2 classroom: the “I am an author” project1
Factor structures of speed and breakdown fluency in EFL learners’ story retelling performances1
Investigating willingness to communicate in synchronous group discussion tasks: one step closer towards authentic communication1
“I’ve just lived inside a tumble dryer”: a narrative of emotion labour, (de)motivation, and agency in the life of a language teacher1
The use of blocking and inhibition training in processing instruction1
Lexical stress assignment preferences in L2 German1
Development and validation of Questionnaire for Self-regulated Learning Writing Strategies (QSRLWS) for EFL learners1
Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL1
Factors behind L2 English learners’ performance of oppositional speech acts: a look at pragmatic-related episodes (PREs) during thinking aloud1
Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China1
Teaching South African Sign Language as a second language to university students: an integrated pedagogy1
Language pedagogies and late-life language learning proficiency1
Deciphering the role of multilingualism in creativity at university: the influence of context1
Emotional labor of a Brazilian public school teacher: domination and resistance in a neoliberal context1
Distance-invoked difficulty as a trigger for errors in Chinese and Japanese EFL learners’ English writings1
She is “just an intern”: transnational Chinese language teachers’ emotion labor with mentors in a teacher residency program1
The left and right periphery in native and non-native speech – A comparative study between French L1/L2, Spanish L1/L2 and Swedish L11
Emotion labor in response to supervisor feedback: is feedback a burden or a blessing?1
The combined effects of a higher-level verb distribution and verb semantics on second language learners’ restriction of L2 construction generalization1
Syntactic prediction in L2 learners: evidence from English disjunction processing1
The structure of L2 lexical-semantic networks as seen from a social network perspective1
Using automated indices of cohesion to explore the growth of cohesive features in L2 writing1
Relationship between second language vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary learning strategy use: a meta-analysis of correlational studies1
The relative effects of corrective feedback and language proficiency on the development of L2 pragmalinguistic competence: the case of request downgraders1
Fossilized mistakes in Spanish relative clauses learned by Chinese students1
Learning phrasal verbs in the EFL classroom: the effect of prior vocabulary knowledge and opacity1
How concept-based language instruction works in teaching thinking for speaking in an L21
Scaffolding in genre-based L2 writing classes: Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices1
What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation1
Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift1
Emotionally (in)hospitable spaces: reflecting on language teacher–teacher educator collaboration as a source of emotion labor and emotional capital1
Intensity of CLIL exposure and L2 motivation in primary school: evidence from Spanish EFL learners in non-CLIL, low-CLIL and high-CLIL programmes1
Translanguaging and emotionality of English as a second language (ESL) teachers1
Which approach best promoted low-proficiency learners’ listening performance: metacognitive, bottom-up or a combination of both?1
The acquisition of relative clauses by Spanish-Basque learners of L3 English: does dominance play a role?1
The association between socioeconomic status and Chinese secondary students’ English achievement: mediation of self-efficacy and moderation of gender1
The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom1
Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis1
Teaching English in an engineering international branch campus: a collaborative autoethnography of our emotion labor1
The acquisition of L3 French present simple and present progressive by adult L1 Chinese speakers of L2 English1
The relationship between university EFL teachers’ oral feedback beliefs and practices and the impact of individual differences1
Investigating the impact of task complexity on uptake and noticing of corrective feedback recasts1
Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations1
Examining L2 studentsʼ development of global cohesion and its relationship with their argumentative essay quality1
Investigating willingness to communicate vis-à-vis learner talk in a low-proficiency EAP classroom in the UK study-abroad context1
The role of self-construal in EFL vocabulary learning1
Unraveling the differential effects of task rehearsal and task repetition on L2 task performance: the mediating role of task modality1
Advancing language teacher emotion research: a nuanced, dialectical, and empowering stance1
Defining competencies for training non-native Korean speaking teachers: a Q methodology approach1
Intra-language: the study of L2 morpheme productivity as within-item variance1
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