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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Miscommunicated referent tracking in L2 English: a case-by-case analysis31
Internal and external appraisals of analytical writing. A proposal for assessing development and potential improvement29
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Phrasal complexity in EFL learners’ oral performance: The role of task type and proficiency18
Fluency across modes: an exploratory study of L1 and L2 spoken and written fluency18
Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions16
Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications15
Listenership always matters: active listening ability in L2 business English paired speaking tasks14
The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English14
Development and validation of Questionnaire for Self-regulated Learning Writing Strategies (QSRLWS) for EFL learners13
A systematic review of English-as-a-foreign-language vocabulary learning activities for primary school students13
Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading12
Comprehension of English articles by Korean learners of L2 English and L3 Spanish12
The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance12
A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance12
Patterns of interaction between experiential and interpersonal meanings in student texts in Spanish: grounds for system-based applications in an academic writing context12
The combined effects of task repetition and post-task teacher-corrected transcribing on complexity, accuracy and fluency of L2 oral performance12
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Teacher behaviour and student engagement with L2 writing feedback: a case study11
From Yi Language to Mandarin: translanguaging practices and identity construction between actual and ought-to L1 selves10
Investigating optimal spacing schedules for incidental acquisition of L2 collocations10
A cross-modal analysis of lexical sophistication: EFL and ESL learners in written and spoken production10
Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language10
Validation of a multiple-choice implicature test: insights from Chinese EFL learners’ cognitive processes10
Contributions of significant others to second language teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective9
Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging9
“Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation8
Why is L2 pragmatics still a neglected area in EFL teaching? Uncovered stories from Vietnamese EFL teachers8
Measuring and profiling Chinese secondary school English teachers’ language mindsets: an exploratory study of non-native teachers’ perceived L2 proficiency loss8
Exploring aural vocabulary knowledge for TOEIC as a language exit requirement in higher education in Taiwan8
Anxiety and enjoyment in oral presentations: a mixed-method study into Chinese EFL learners’ oral presentation performance8
The association between socioeconomic status and Chinese secondary students’ English achievement: mediation of self-efficacy and moderation of gender8
The effects of pre-task explicit instruction, input modality of task types, and working memory on L2 oral production8
Emotion labor in teacher collaboration: towards developing emotional reflexivity7
Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL7
Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations7
The use of interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) by L2 learners: the impact of age, gender, language learning experience, and L2 proficiency levels7
L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction7
Effects of working memory and task type on syntactic complexity in EFL learners’ writing7
The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management7
Evaluative language in undergraduate academic writing: expressions of attitude as sources of text effectiveness in English as a Foreign Language7
Investigating willingness to communicate in synchronous group discussion tasks: one step closer towards authentic communication7
Toward a better understanding of student engagement with peer feedback: a longitudinal study7
The dynamics of changes in linguistic complexity and writing scores in timed argumentative writing among beginning-level EFL learners7
A Q methodological study into pre-service Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ mindsets about teaching competencies6
The impact of textual enhancement on the acquisition of third person possessive pronouns by child EFL learners6
“I usually just rely on my intuition and go from there.” pedagogical rules and metalinguistic awareness of pre-service EFL teachers6
The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective6
Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis6
Emotion labor in response to supervisor feedback: is feedback a burden or a blessing?6
Influencing factors of L2 writers’ engagement in an assessment as learning-focused context6
Learner beliefs about vocabulary teaching in secondary ESL classrooms: a proficiency and grade-level analysis6
Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition6
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices6
Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship5
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Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers5
Examining the impact of foreign language anxiety and language contact on oral proficiency: a study of Chinese as a second language learners5
High school EFL teachers’ oral corrective feedback beliefs and practices, and the effects of lesson focus5
Exploring the interplay of growth mindset, mindfulness, and L2 self-efficacy in second language achievement: a mixed-methods study5
The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading5
Distance-invoked difficulty as a trigger for errors in Chinese and Japanese EFL learners’ English writings5
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Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing: an ecological approach5
The acquisition of L3 French present simple and present progressive by adult L1 Chinese speakers of L2 English5
Using sentence processing speed and automaticity to predict L2 performance in the productive and receptive tasks5
When are performance-approach goals more adaptive for Chinese EFL learners? It depends on their underlying reasons5
Teaching mental processes to EFL learners: a blended-learning proposal5
Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement5
Scaffolding in genre-based L2 writing classes: Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices5
The stone left unturned: boredom among young EFL learners5
Factor structures of speed and breakdown fluency in EFL learners’ story retelling performances5
Assessing self-efficacy, working memory, and proficiency in a multimedia writing environment4
Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China4
Lexical and grammatical collocations in beginning and intermediate L2 argumentative essays: a bigram study4
Cognitive fatigue induced by spaced and massed practice: effects on idiom accuracy across L2 proficiency levels4
What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation4
Unpacking the positioning of being “disengaged” and “disrespectful” in class through nexus analysis: an international student’s navigation of institutional and interactional university norms4
Investigating the effects of varying Accelerative Integrated Method instruction on spoken recall accuracy: a case study with junior primary learners of French4
Exploring the hierarchical antecedents of willingness to communicate and its relationship with utterance fluency in learning Chinese as a foreign language4
Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China4
Exploring the dynamic metaphor patterns in describing English public speaking anxiety among Chinese learners4
Teaching L2 Spanish idioms with semantic motivation: should this be done proactively or retroactively?4
Perception of English semivowels by Japanese-speaking learners of English4
Incorporating peer feedback in writing instruction: examining its effects on Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ writing performance4
Exploring relationships between L1 and L2 writing strategy use and integrated writing performance: A cross-linguistic perspective4
An exploratory study on second language learner engagement in different types of interactive tasks in video-chat and text-chat communication4
Young L2 learners in diverse instructional contexts3
Exploring self-regulated learning behaviours of young second language learners during group work3
L3 acquisition of aspect: the influence of structural similarity, analytic L2 and general L3 proficiency3
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools3
Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies3
System networks as a resource in L2 writing education3
Factors behind L2 English learners’ performance of oppositional speech acts: a look at pragmatic-related episodes (PREs) during thinking aloud3
Are L2 listener verbal reports reactive? Insights from the learners3
Effects of guided concept mapping on L2 learners’ listening ability and cognitive load3
The effect of collaborative prewriting on L2 collaborative writing production and individual L2 writing development3
Immediate and long-term improvement in lexical stress perception: the role of teacher and peer feedback3
Scale validation and latent profile identification of GenAI competence for pre-service second language teachers3
Defining competencies for training non-native Korean speaking teachers: a Q methodology approach3
Emotion profiles of Chinese secondary EFL learners: link with subjective well-being, English achievement, and demographics3
What watching subtitled movies does to the learner: the impact of subtitles and modality on cognitive load and vocabulary learning3
Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift3
The influence of language contact and ethnic identification on Chinese as a second language learners’ oral proficiency3
Machine translation as a form of feedback on L2 writing3
Intensity of CLIL exposure and L2 motivation in primary school: evidence from Spanish EFL learners in non-CLIL, low-CLIL and high-CLIL programmes3
Effects of textual enhancement on L2 development: a meta-analysis3
Students’ L2 grit, foreign language anxiety and language learning achievement: a latent profile and mediation analysis3
Exploring the pseudo-longitudinal development of specific morphosyntactic features and syntactic complexity in CLIL young learners3
Implementing an oral task in an EFL classroom with low proficient learners: a micro-evaluation3
Non-finite clause use in disciplinary research writing: a formulaic sequence-based functional comparison between expert and student writers3
Effects of repeated practice on fluency and accuracy in picture description activity: implicit learning by frequency3
The associations between working memory and the effects of multimedia input on L2 vocabulary learning3
Enhancing young EFL learners’ written skills: the role of repeated pre-task planning3
The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom3
Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity3
Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles: a functional analysis of medical discourse2
Scaffolding instruction in an EFL drama lesson: a systemic functional analysis2
Assessing written production in L2 Mandarin Chinese: fluency and accuracy2
Connective Frequency Bands informed by textbook frequencies and midadolescents’ knowledge of connectives: a tool to support Spanish literacy instruction across content areas2
Comparing motivational features between feedback givers and receivers in English speaking class2
Beyond learning opportunities: focused encounters in a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition and teaching2
Effects of random selection tests on second language vocabulary learning: a comparison with cumulative tests2
Low-level visual processing of motion events as a window into language-specific effects on perception2
Children learning Mongolian as an additional language through the implementation of a task-based approach2
Emotional labor of a Brazilian public school teacher: domination and resistance in a neoliberal context2
English language teachers’ social media branding: mapping the construction and perception of brand identities on Instagram2
Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom2
Functional linguistics in life: an embodied approach in teacher education2
Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis2
Understanding salient trajectories and emerging profiles in the development of Chinese learners’ motivation: a growth mixture modeling approach2
Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing2
How teaching modality affects Foreign Language Enjoyment: a comparison of in-person and online English as a Foreign Language classes2
Using automated indices of cohesion to explore the growth of cohesive features in L2 writing2
Measuring learners’ writing development in a Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) context2
A bibliometric analysis of the IRAL over the past six decades2
Acquisition of collocations under different glossing modalities and the mediating role of learners’ perceptual learning style2
Relationship between learner creativity, task planning, and speaking performance in L2 narrative tasks2
Listener engagement: the missing link in research on accented speech2
Speech fluency among L1 Arabic elementary and intermediate learners of English as a foreign language2
Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires2
General auditory processing, Mandarin L1 prosodic and phonological awareness, and English L2 word learning2
When concept-based language instruction meets cognitive linguistics: teaching English phrasal verbs with up and out2
What pronunciation specialists believe CELTA tutors need to know to prepare student teachers to teach pronunciation2
Understanding the moderating role of school achievement level between growth mindsets, engagement and achievement in students’ English learning2
“Am I really abroad?” The informal language contact and social networks of Chinese foundation students in the UK2
Competing factors in SLA: how the CASP model of SLA explains the acquisition of English restrictive relative clauses by native speakers of Arabic and Korean2
The effect of form presentation mode and language learning aptitude on the learning burden and decay of L2 vocabulary knowledge2
Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners1
Influence of topic-prominent L1s on the use of L2 English copula be: a corpus-based study1
L2 writing development through two types of writing task repetition1
How concept-based language instruction works in teaching thinking for speaking in an L21
Language pedagogies and late-life language learning proficiency1
Examining L2 studentsʼ development of global cohesion and its relationship with their argumentative essay quality1
Impact of methodological differences in task sequencing on second language learning: a multi-level meta-analysis1
Integrated instruction of Appraisal Theory and rhetorical moves in literature reviews: an exploratory study1
Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress1
Testing a model of EFL teachers’ work engagement: the roles of teachers’ professional identity, L2 grit, and foreign language teaching enjoyment1
Promoting interaction and lowering speaking anxiety in an EMI course: a group dynamic assessment approach1
Self-regulated learning and task engagement: a SEM analysis1
Image-schema-based-instruction enhanced L2 construction learning with the optimal balance between attention to form and meaning1
Incidental learning of collocations through reading an academic text1
The development and initial validation of LexCombi 2: a research-oriented elicitation instrument for L2 learners’ productive collocation knowledge1
Teaching English with Chinese characteristics: a corpus analysis of changes in university curricula1
Second language fluency across contexts: introduction to the special issue1
SFL as a socially accountable praxis: who and what are we working for?1
Exploring the potential of brief peer review training in enhancing student feedback literacy1
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Examining resilience in EFL contexts: a survey study of university students in China1
L2 fluency across tasks: disentangling demands on conceptualisation and formulation in speech production1
On the acquisition of tense and agreement in L2 English by adult speakers of L1 Chinese1
The impact of guessing and retrieval strategies for learning phrasal verbs1
Revisiting after-class boredom via exploratory structural equation modeling1
Relationships between formal and informal input, listening motivation, and listening proficiency among young EFL learners in Hong Kong1
Measurement of engagement in the foreign language classroom and its effect on language achievement: the case of Chinese college EFL students1
Aural vocabulary, orthographic vocabulary, and listening comprehension1
Exploring L2 learners’ processing of unknown words during subtitled viewing through self-reports1
Language transfer in tense acquisition: new evidence from English learning Chinese adolescents1
Teaching Chinese grammar through International Chinese Language Education micro-lectures: negotiating mass and presence through multimodal pedagogic discourse1
Exploring teacher-student interaction in task and non-task sequences1
Exploring the mediating role of boredom in the relationship between ideal L2 self and engagement in Chinese as a foreign language learning1
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Speaking proficiency development in EFL classrooms: measuring the differential effect of TBLT and PPP teaching approaches1
Exploring learner-related variables in child collaborative writing: interaction mindset, willingness to communicate and proficiency1
Learning academic vocabulary through reading online news1
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A frequency, coverage, and dispersion analysis of the academic collocation list in university student writing1
Applying embodied meaning of spatial prepositions and the Principled Polysemy model to teaching English as a second language: the case of to and on1
More human than human? Differences in lexis and collocation within academic essays produced by ChatGPT-3.5 and human L2 writers1
Exploring Chinese university English writing teachers’ emotions in providing feedback on student writing1
“They forget and forget all the time.” The complexity of teaching adult deaf emergent readers print literacy1
Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English1
An idiodynamic study of the interconnectedness between cognitive and affective components underlying L2 willingness to communicate1
Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development1
The impact of text-audio synchronized enhancement on collocation learning from reading-while-listening: an extended replication of Jung and Lee (2023)1
Exploring the professional role identities of English for academic purposes practitioners: a qualitative study1
Assessing effects of source text complexity on L2 learners’ interpreting performance: a dependency-based approach1
Interculturality and Islam in Indonesia’s high-school EFL classrooms1
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Which factors predict teachers’ evaluation of the difficulty and usefulness of phrasal verbs in L2 contexts?1
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