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 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Gender assignment errors in adult L2 Spanish: incorrect assignment or unavailable assignment?28
Internal and external appraisals of analytical writing. A proposal for assessing development and potential improvement27
Fluency across modes: an exploratory study of L1 and L2 spoken and written fluency26
Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions25
Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications24
Translanguaging On Country : trauma responsive pedagogy in Australian Aboriginal early childhood education22
The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English21
Phrasal complexity in EFL learners’ oral performance: The role of task type and proficiency21
Bridging the function-form gap: a multidimensional move analysis of English research article introductions in applied linguistics by L1 English and L1 Chinese scholars21
Listenership always matters: active listening ability in L2 business English paired speaking tasks19
The combined effects of task repetition and post-task teacher-corrected transcribing on complexity, accuracy and fluency of L2 oral performance19
A systematic review of English-as-a-foreign-language vocabulary learning activities for primary school students18
The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance18
A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance17
Development and validation of Questionnaire for Self-regulated Learning Writing Strategies (QSRLWS) for EFL learners16
Patterns of interaction between experiential and interpersonal meanings in student texts in Spanish: grounds for system-based applications in an academic writing context16
Comprehension of English articles by Korean learners of L2 English and L3 Spanish16
A cross-modal analysis of lexical sophistication: EFL and ESL learners in written and spoken production15
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Contributions of significant others to second language teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective15
From Yi Language to Mandarin: translanguaging practices and identity construction between actual and ought-to L1 selves15
Exploring aural vocabulary knowledge for TOEIC as a language exit requirement in higher education in Taiwan14
Teacher behaviour and student engagement with L2 writing feedback: a case study14
Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language14
Investigating optimal spacing schedules for incidental acquisition of L2 collocations14
L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction13
Evaluative language in undergraduate academic writing: expressions of attitude as sources of text effectiveness in English as a Foreign Language13
Incidental and planned focus on form in EMI science classes: possible role of teachers’ past ESL/EFL teaching experience12
Why is L2 pragmatics still a neglected area in EFL teaching? Uncovered stories from Vietnamese EFL teachers12
The association between socioeconomic status and Chinese secondary students’ English achievement: mediation of self-efficacy and moderation of gender11
“Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation11
Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging11
The use of interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) by L2 learners: the impact of age, gender, language learning experience, and L2 proficiency levels10
The effects of pre-task explicit instruction, input modality of task types, and working memory on L2 oral production10
Emotion labor in teacher collaboration: towards developing emotional reflexivity10
Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations10
Anxiety and enjoyment in oral presentations: a mixed-method study into Chinese EFL learners’ oral presentation performance10
The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management10
Investigating willingness to communicate in synchronous group discussion tasks: one step closer towards authentic communication9
Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL9
A Q methodological study into pre-service Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ mindsets about teaching competencies9
Toward a better understanding of student engagement with peer feedback: a longitudinal study9
The dynamics of changes in linguistic complexity and writing scores in timed argumentative writing among beginning-level EFL learners9
Effects of working memory and task type on syntactic complexity in EFL learners’ writing9
The impact of textual enhancement on the acquisition of third person possessive pronouns by child EFL learners8
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Verb-construction integration in L2 spoken production: a comparative analysis of EFL and ESL learners8
Emotion labor in response to supervisor feedback: is feedback a burden or a blessing?7
Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition7
Influencing factors of L2 writers’ engagement in an assessment as learning-focused context7
Learner beliefs about vocabulary teaching in secondary ESL classrooms: a proficiency and grade-level analysis7
“I usually just rely on my intuition and go from there.” pedagogical rules and metalinguistic awareness of pre-service EFL teachers7
Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis7
The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective7
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices7
Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers6
The acquisition of L3 French present simple and present progressive by adult L1 Chinese speakers of L2 English6
Time pressure in careful on-line planning: comparing its effects on L2 speaking task performance and strategy use6
Scaffolding in genre-based L2 writing classes: Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices6
Teaching mental processes to EFL learners: a blended-learning proposal6
Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing: an ecological approach6
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Examining the impact of foreign language anxiety and language contact on oral proficiency: a study of Chinese as a second language learners6
Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement6
Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship6
The stone left unturned: boredom among young EFL learners6
Factor structures of speed and breakdown fluency in EFL learners’ story retelling performances6
Effects of task complexity and task condition on Chinese EFL learners’ word engagement and incidental vocabulary learning5
The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading5
Investigating the effects of varying Accelerative Integrated Method instruction on spoken recall accuracy: a case study with junior primary learners of French5
Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China5
The effect of collaborative prewriting on L2 collaborative writing production and individual L2 writing development5
Exploring relationships between L1 and L2 writing strategy use and integrated writing performance: a cross-linguistic perspective5
Unpacking the positioning of being “disengaged” and “disrespectful” in class through nexus analysis: an international student’s navigation of institutional and interactional university norms5
Exploring the interplay of growth mindset, mindfulness, and L2 self-efficacy in second language achievement: a mixed-methods study5
Perception of English semivowels by Japanese-speaking learners of English5
Assessing self-efficacy, working memory, and proficiency in a multimedia writing environment5
Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China5
Effects of textual enhancement on L2 development: a meta-analysis5
Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity5
Using sentence processing speed and automaticity to predict L2 performance in the productive and receptive tasks5
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Distance-invoked difficulty as a trigger for errors in Chinese and Japanese EFL learners’ English writings5
What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation5
Exploring the dynamic metaphor patterns in describing English public speaking anxiety among Chinese learners5
Cognitive fatigue induced by spaced and massed practice: effects on idiom accuracy across L2 proficiency levels5
Young L2 learners in diverse instructional contexts5
Emotion profiles of Chinese secondary EFL learners: link with subjective well-being, English achievement, and demographics4
The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom4
Effects of guided concept mapping on L2 learners’ listening ability and cognitive load4
An exploratory study on second language learner engagement in different types of interactive tasks in video-chat and text-chat communication4
Exploring self-regulated learning behaviours of young second language learners during group work4
Non-finite clause use in disciplinary research writing: a formulaic sequence-based functional comparison between expert and student writers4
Functional linguistics in life: an embodied approach in teacher education4
Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom4
Enhancing young EFL learners’ written skills: the role of repeated pre-task planning4
Defining competencies for training non-native Korean speaking teachers: a Q methodology approach4
Intensity of CLIL exposure and L2 motivation in primary school: evidence from Spanish EFL learners in non-CLIL, low-CLIL and high-CLIL programmes4
Machine translation as a form of feedback on L2 writing4
The influence of language contact and ethnic identification on Chinese as a second language learners’ oral proficiency4
Students’ L2 grit, foreign language anxiety and language learning achievement: a latent profile and mediation analysis4
Implementing an oral task in an EFL classroom with low proficient learners: a micro-evaluation4
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools4
Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift4
Effects of repeated practice on fluency and accuracy in picture description activity: implicit learning by frequency4
Factors behind L2 English learners’ performance of oppositional speech acts: a look at pragmatic-related episodes (PREs) during thinking aloud4
Are L2 listener verbal reports reactive? Insights from the learners4
Scale validation and latent profile identification of GenAI competence for pre-service second language teachers4
Exploring the hierarchical antecedents of willingness to communicate and its relationship with utterance fluency in learning Chinese as a foreign language4
Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies4
Scaffolding instruction in an EFL drama lesson: a systemic functional analysis4
What watching subtitled movies does to the learner: the impact of subtitles and modality on cognitive load and vocabulary learning4
System networks as a resource in L2 writing education4
Understanding the moderating role of school achievement level between growth mindsets, engagement and achievement in students’ English learning3
Measuring learners’ writing development in a Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) context3
How teaching modality affects Foreign Language Enjoyment: a comparison of in-person and online English as a Foreign Language classes3
Speech fluency among L1 Arabic elementary and intermediate learners of English as a foreign language3
Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis3
English language teachers’ social media branding: mapping the construction and perception of brand identities on Instagram3
Competing factors in SLA: how the CASP model of SLA explains the acquisition of English restrictive relative clauses by native speakers of Arabic and Korean3
Assessing written production in L2 Mandarin Chinese: fluency and accuracy3
General auditory processing, Mandarin L1 prosodic and phonological awareness, and English L2 word learning3
Using automated indices of cohesion to explore the growth of cohesive features in L2 writing3
Low-level visual processing of motion events as a window into language-specific effects on perception3
The effect of form presentation mode and language learning aptitude on the learning burden and decay of L2 vocabulary knowledge3
Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires3
Children learning Mongolian as an additional language through the implementation of a task-based approach3
Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles: a functional analysis of medical discourse3
Effects of random selection tests on second language vocabulary learning: a comparison with cumulative tests3
Beyond learning opportunities: focused encounters in a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition and teaching3
“Am I really abroad?” The informal language contact and social networks of Chinese foundation students in the UK3
Personality as a catalyst for strategic self-regulation in language learning3
Emotional labor of a Brazilian public school teacher: domination and resistance in a neoliberal context3
Acquisition of collocations under different glossing modalities and the mediating role of learners’ perceptual learning style3
Relationship between learner creativity, task planning, and speaking performance in L2 narrative tasks3
Connective Frequency Bands informed by textbook frequencies and midadolescents’ knowledge of connectives: a tool to support Spanish literacy instruction across content areas3
What pronunciation specialists believe CELTA tutors need to know to prepare student teachers to teach pronunciation3
The development and initial validation of LexCombi 2: a research-oriented elicitation instrument for L2 learners’ productive collocation knowledge2
Self-regulated learning and task engagement: a SEM analysis2
Exploring teacher-student interaction in task and non-task sequences2
Exploring Chinese university English writing teachers’ emotions in providing feedback on student writing2
Language transfer in tense acquisition: new evidence from English learning Chinese adolescents2
Exploring the professional role identities of English for academic purposes practitioners: a qualitative study2
Teaching English with Chinese characteristics: a corpus analysis of changes in university curricula2
Shh…is silence really golden? A multivariate analysis of subjectivity in academic writings and translations2
Exploring learner-related variables in child collaborative writing: interaction mindset, willingness to communicate and proficiency2
Towards a model of self-regulation, self-efficacy, working memory, English proficiency, and writing performance in an EFL multimedia writing context2
Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners2
Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress2
Revisiting after-class boredom via exploratory structural equation modeling2
Testing a model of EFL teachers’ work engagement: the roles of teachers’ professional identity, L2 grit, and foreign language teaching enjoyment2
On the acquisition of tense and agreement in L2 English by adult speakers of L1 Chinese2
Assessing effects of source text complexity on L2 learners’ interpreting performance: a dependency-based approach2
The effects of individual differences on adolescent L1 Chinese EFL learners’ incidental vocabulary acquisition through extensive reading2
Profiling adolescent EFL learners’ socio-psychological orientations toward willingness to communicate: a Q methodology study2
Second language fluency across contexts: introduction to the special issue2
Junior high school students’ engagement with automated feedback in EFL writing: a case from China2
Which factors predict teachers’ evaluation of the difficulty and usefulness of phrasal verbs in L2 contexts?2
Exploring L2 learners’ processing of unknown words during subtitled viewing through self-reports2
Integrated instruction of Appraisal Theory and rhetorical moves in literature reviews: an exploratory study2
Examining L2 studentsʼ development of global cohesion and its relationship with their argumentative essay quality2
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Applying embodied meaning of spatial prepositions and the Principled Polysemy model to teaching English as a second language: the case of to and on2
Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English2
Exploring the mediating role of boredom in the relationship between ideal L2 self and engagement in Chinese as a foreign language learning2
Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development2
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Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing2
Incidental learning of collocations through reading an academic text2
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