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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Phrasal complexity in EFL learners’ oral performance: The role of task type and proficiency29
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Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions22
Fluency across modes: an exploratory study of L1 and L2 spoken and written fluency21
Internal and external appraisals of analytical writing. A proposal for assessing development and potential improvement21
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Miscommunicated referent tracking in L2 English: a case-by-case analysis13
The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English12
Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications12
The use of blocking and inhibition training in processing instruction11
The combined effects of task repetition and post-task teacher-corrected transcribing on complexity, accuracy and fluency of L2 oral performance10
A systematic review of English-as-a-foreign-language vocabulary learning activities for primary school students10
The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance9
Comprehension of English articles by Korean learners of L2 English and L3 Spanish9
Listenership always matters: active listening ability in L2 business English paired speaking tasks9
Development and validation of Questionnaire for Self-regulated Learning Writing Strategies (QSRLWS) for EFL learners9
Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language8
Exploring ESOL teachers’ perspectives on the language learning experiences, challenges, and motivations of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK8
A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance8
A cross-modal analysis of lexical sophistication: EFL and ESL learners in written and spoken production8
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Teacher behaviour and student engagement with L2 writing feedback: a case study7
Why is L2 pragmatics still a neglected area in EFL teaching? Uncovered stories from Vietnamese EFL teachers7
Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading7
Patterns of interaction between experiential and interpersonal meanings in student texts in Spanish: grounds for system-based applications in an academic writing context7
Contributions of significant others to second language teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective7
Validation of a multiple-choice implicature test: insights from Chinese EFL learners’ cognitive processes7
L2 use of pragmatic markers in peer talk: Mandarin utterance-final particles7
Investigating optimal spacing schedules for incidental acquisition of L2 collocations7
Phraseological complexity and low- and intermediate-level L2 learners’ writing quality7
Focus on form in task repetition through oral and written task modeling7
L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction6
Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging6
Anxiety and enjoyment in oral presentations: a mixed-method study into Chinese EFL learners’ oral presentation performance6
Evaluative language in undergraduate academic writing: expressions of attitude as sources of text effectiveness in English as a Foreign Language6
“Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation6
Exploring aural vocabulary knowledge for TOEIC as a language exit requirement in higher education in Taiwan6
The association between socioeconomic status and Chinese secondary students’ English achievement: mediation of self-efficacy and moderation of gender6
Measuring and profiling Chinese secondary school English teachers’ language mindsets: an exploratory study of non-native teachers’ perceived L2 proficiency loss6
The use of interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) by L2 learners: the impact of age, gender, language learning experience, and L2 proficiency levels5
Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations5
The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management5
Emotion labor in teacher collaboration: towards developing emotional reflexivity5
The dynamics of changes in linguistic complexity and writing scores in timed argumentative writing among beginning-level EFL learners5
Effects of working memory and task type on syntactic complexity in EFL learners’ writing5
Toward a better understanding of student engagement with peer feedback: a longitudinal study5
Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis4
The relationship between university EFL teachers’ oral feedback beliefs and practices and the impact of individual differences4
The stone left unturned: boredom among young EFL learners4
Investigating willingness to communicate in synchronous group discussion tasks: one step closer towards authentic communication4
Emotion labor in response to supervisor feedback: is feedback a burden or a blessing?4
The impact of textual enhancement on the acquisition of third person possessive pronouns by child EFL learners4
Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition4
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices4
Examining the impact of foreign language anxiety and language contact on oral proficiency: a study of Chinese as a second language learners4
Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL4
A Q methodological study into pre-service Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ mindsets about teaching competencies4
“I usually just rely on my intuition and go from there.” pedagogical rules and metalinguistic awareness of pre-service EFL teachers4
Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement4
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Influencing factors of L2 writers’ engagement in an assessment as learning-focused context4
The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective4
Learner beliefs about vocabulary teaching in secondary ESL classrooms: a proficiency and grade-level analysis4
Scaffolding in genre-based L2 writing classes: Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices3
High school EFL teachers’ oral corrective feedback beliefs and practices, and the effects of lesson focus3
Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers3
Exploring the interplay of growth mindset, mindfulness, and L2 self-efficacy in second language achievement: a mixed-methods study3
Unpacking the positioning of being “disengaged” and “disrespectful” in class through nexus analysis: an international student’s navigation of institutional and interactional university norms3
Perception of English semivowels by Japanese-speaking learners of English3
Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing: an ecological approach3
The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading3
When are performance-approach goals more adaptive for Chinese EFL learners? It depends on their underlying reasons3
Incorporating peer feedback in writing instruction: examining its effects on Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ writing performance3
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The structure of L2 lexical-semantic networks as seen from a social network perspective3
The acquisition of L3 French present simple and present progressive by adult L1 Chinese speakers of L2 English3
Factor structures of speed and breakdown fluency in EFL learners’ story retelling performances3
Teaching mental processes to EFL learners: a blended-learning proposal3
Using sentence processing speed and automaticity to predict L2 performance in the productive and receptive tasks3
Distance-invoked difficulty as a trigger for errors in Chinese and Japanese EFL learners’ English writings3
Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship3
Teaching L2 Spanish idioms with semantic motivation: should this be done proactively or retroactively?3
Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China2
Intensity of CLIL exposure and L2 motivation in primary school: evidence from Spanish EFL learners in non-CLIL, low-CLIL and high-CLIL programmes2
Exploring self-regulated learning behaviours of young second language learners during group work2
Implementing an oral task in an EFL classroom with low proficient learners: a micro-evaluation2
Children learning Mongolian as an additional language through the implementation of a task-based approach2
Effects of guided concept mapping on L2 learners’ listening ability and cognitive load2
Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift2
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools2
The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom2
Students’ L2 grit, foreign language anxiety and language learning achievement: a latent profile and mediation analysis2
Exploring the hierarchical antecedents of willingness to communicate and its relationship with utterance fluency in learning Chinese as a foreign language2
Lexical and grammatical collocations in beginning and intermediate L2 argumentative essays: a bigram study2
Glossing and incidental vocabulary learning in L2 reading: a cognitive load perspective2
Assessing self-efficacy, working memory, and proficiency in a multimedia writing environment2
System networks as a resource in L2 writing education2
An exploratory study on second language learner engagement in different types of interactive tasks in video-chat and text-chat communication2
Machine translation as a form of feedback on L2 writing2
Listener engagement: the missing link in research on accented speech2
The associations between working memory and the effects of multimedia input on L2 vocabulary learning2
Factors behind L2 English learners’ performance of oppositional speech acts: a look at pragmatic-related episodes (PREs) during thinking aloud2
Effects of task complexity on the learning of genre specific rhetorical moves and linguistic forms: the case of contrast and argumentative essays2
Enhancing young EFL learners’ written skills: the role of repeated pre-task planning2
The effect of collaborative prewriting on L2 collaborative writing production and individual L2 writing development2
Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity2
What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation2
Exploring relationships between L1 and L2 writing strategy use and integrated writing performance: A cross-linguistic perspective2
Defining competencies for training non-native Korean speaking teachers: a Q methodology approach2
Investigating the effects of varying Accelerative Integrated Method instruction on spoken recall accuracy: a case study with junior primary learners of French2
L3 acquisition of aspect: the influence of structural similarity, analytic L2 and general L3 proficiency2
Relationship between learner creativity, task planning, and speaking performance in L2 narrative tasks2
Emotion profiles of Chinese secondary EFL learners: link with subjective well-being, English achievement, and demographics2
The influence of language contact and ethnic identification on Chinese as a second language learners’ oral proficiency2
Non-finite clause use in disciplinary research writing: a formulaic sequence-based functional comparison between expert and student writers2
Exploring the pseudo-longitudinal development of specific morphosyntactic features and syntactic complexity in CLIL young learners2
Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies2
Young L2 learners in diverse instructional contexts2
Immediate and long-term improvement in lexical stress perception: the role of teacher and peer feedback2
Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China2
Exploring teacher-student interaction in task and non-task sequences1
Incidental learning of collocations through reading an academic text1
Understanding salient trajectories and emerging profiles in the development of Chinese learners’ motivation: a growth mixture modeling approach1
Exploring L2 learners’ processing of unknown words during subtitled viewing through self-reports1
Competing factors in SLA: how the CASP model of SLA explains the acquisition of English restrictive relative clauses by native speakers of Arabic and Korean1
Language transfer in tense acquisition: new evidence from English learning Chinese adolescents1
Acquisition of morphology by L2 children in naturalistic environments: a case of Japanese case markers1
Effects of random selection tests on second language vocabulary learning: a comparison with cumulative tests1
Exploring learner-related variables in child collaborative writing: interaction mindset, willingness to communicate and proficiency1
A bibliometric analysis of the IRAL over the past six decades1
When concept-based language instruction meets cognitive linguistics: teaching English phrasal verbs with up and out1
Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires1
Acquisition of collocations under different glossing modalities and the mediating role of learners’ perceptual learning style1
Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom1
How teaching modality affects Foreign Language Enjoyment: a comparison of in-person and online English as a Foreign Language classes1
On the acquisition of tense and agreement in L2 English by adult speakers of L1 Chinese1
Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners1
Teaching English with Chinese characteristics: a corpus analysis of changes in university curricula1
Speech fluency among L1 Arabic elementary and intermediate learners of English as a foreign language1
Deciphering the role of multilingualism in creativity at university: the influence of context1
Low-level visual processing of motion events as a window into language-specific effects on perception1
Assessing effects of source text complexity on L2 learners’ interpreting performance: a dependency-based approach1
Comparing motivational features between feedback givers and receivers in English speaking class1
Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis1
Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing1
Assessing written production in L2 Mandarin Chinese: fluency and accuracy1
English language teachers’ social media branding: mapping the construction and perception of brand identities on Instagram1
Scaffolding instruction in an EFL drama lesson: a systemic functional analysis1
Using automated indices of cohesion to explore the growth of cohesive features in L2 writing1
Exploring the professional role identities of English for academic purposes practitioners: a qualitative study1
Examining L2 studentsʼ development of global cohesion and its relationship with their argumentative essay quality1
Which factors predict teachers’ evaluation of the difficulty and usefulness of phrasal verbs in L2 contexts?1
Measuring learners’ writing development in a Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) context1
Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development1
Emotional labor of a Brazilian public school teacher: domination and resistance in a neoliberal context1
Integrated instruction of Appraisal Theory and rhetorical moves in literature reviews: an exploratory study1
General auditory processing, Mandarin L1 prosodic and phonological awareness, and English L2 word learning1
“Am I really abroad?” The informal language contact and social networks of Chinese foundation students in the UK1
The relationship between university EFL teachers’ oral feedback beliefs and practices and the impact of individual differences1
Connective Frequency Bands informed by textbook frequencies and midadolescents’ knowledge of connectives: a tool to support Spanish literacy instruction across content areas1
Beyond learning opportunities: focused encounters in a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition and teaching1
The effect of form presentation mode and language learning aptitude on the learning burden and decay of L2 vocabulary knowledge1
Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles: a functional analysis of medical discourse1
Functional linguistics in life: an embodied approach in teacher education1
We thought about it together and the solution came to our minds”: languaging linguistic problem-solving in multilingual Finnish classrooms1
What pronunciation specialists believe CELTA tutors need to know to prepare student teachers to teach pronunciation1
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