OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
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Miscommunicated referent tracking in L2 English: a case-by-case analysis	31
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Internal and external appraisals of analytical writing. A proposal for assessing development and potential improvement	29
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Fluency across modes: an exploratory study of L1 and L2 spoken and written fluency	18
Phrasal complexity in EFL learners’ oral performance: The role of task type and proficiency	18
Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions	16
Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications	15
The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English	14
Listenership always matters: active listening ability in L2 business English paired speaking tasks	14
A systematic review of English-as-a-foreign-language vocabulary learning activities for primary school students	13
Development and validation of Questionnaire for Self-regulated Learning Writing Strategies (QSRLWS) for EFL learners	13
Patterns of interaction between experiential and interpersonal meanings in student texts in Spanish: grounds for system-based applications in an academic writing context	12
The combined effects of task repetition and post-task teacher-corrected transcribing on complexity, accuracy and fluency of L2 oral performance	12
Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading	12
Comprehension of English articles by Korean learners of L2 English and L3 Spanish	12
The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance	12
A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance	12
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Teacher behaviour and student engagement with L2 writing feedback: a case study	11
Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language	10
Validation of a multiple-choice implicature test: insights from Chinese EFL learners’ cognitive processes	10
From Yi Language to Mandarin: translanguaging practices and identity construction between actual and ought-to L1 selves	10

Investigating optimal spacing schedules for incidental acquisition of L2 collocations	10
A cross-modal analysis of lexical sophistication: EFL and ESL learners in written and spoken production	10
Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging	9
Contributions of significant others to second language teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective	9
Anxiety and enjoyment in oral presentations: a mixed-method study into Chinese EFL learners’ oral presentation performance	8
The association between socioeconomic status and Chinese secondary students’ English achievement: mediation of self-efficacy and moderation of gender	8
The effects of pre-task explicit instruction, input modality of task types, and working memory on L2 oral production	8
“Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation	8
Why is L2 pragmatics still a neglected area in EFL teaching? Uncovered stories from Vietnamese EFL teachers	8
Measuring and profiling Chinese secondary school English teachers’ language mindsets: an exploratory study of non-native teachers’ perceived L2 proficiency loss	8
Exploring aural vocabulary knowledge for TOEIC as a language exit requirement in higher education in Taiwan	8
Effects of working memory and task type on syntactic complexity in EFL learners’ writing	7
The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management	7
Evaluative language in undergraduate academic writing: expressions of attitude as sources of text effectiveness in English as a Foreign Language	7
Investigating willingness to communicate in synchronous group discussion tasks: one step closer towards authentic communication	7
Toward a better understanding of student engagement with peer feedback: a longitudinal study	7
The dynamics of changes in linguistic complexity and writing scores in timed argumentative writing among beginning-level EFL learners	7
Emotion labor in teacher collaboration: towards developing emotional reflexivity	7
Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL	7
Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations	7
The use of interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) by L2 learners: the impact of age, gender, language learning experience, and L2 proficiency levels	7
L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction	7
Learner beliefs about vocabulary teaching in secondary ESL classrooms: a proficiency and grade-level analysis	6
Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition	6
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices	6
A Q methodological study into pre-service Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ mindsets about teaching competencies	6
The impact of textual enhancement on the acquisition of third person possessive pronouns by child EFL learners	6
“I usually just rely on my intuition and go from there.” pedagogical rules and metalinguistic awareness of pre-service EFL teachers	6
The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective	6
Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis	6
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 context	6
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Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing: an ecological approach	5
The acquisition of L3 French present simple and present progressive by adult L1 Chinese speakers of L2 English	5
Using sentence processing speed and automaticity to predict L2 performance in the productive and receptive tasks	5
When are performance-approach goals more adaptive for Chinese EFL learners? It depends on their underlying reasons	5
Teaching mental processes to EFL learners: a blended-learning proposal	5
Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement	5
Scaffolding in genre-based L2 writing classes: Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices	5
The stone left unturned: boredom among young EFL learners	5
Factor structures of speed and breakdown fluency in EFL learners’ story retelling performances	5
Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship	5
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Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers	5
Examining the impact of foreign language anxiety and language contact on oral proficiency: a study of Chinese as a second language learners	5
High school EFL teachers’ oral corrective feedback beliefs and practices, and the effects of lesson focus	5
Exploring the interplay of growth mindset, mindfulness, and L2 self-efficacy in second language achievement: a mixed-methods study	5
The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading	5
Distance-invoked difficulty as a trigger for errors in Chinese and Japanese EFL learners’ English writings	5

Perception of English semivowels by Japanese-speaking learners of English	4
Incorporating peer feedback in writing instruction: examining its effects on Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ writing performance	4
Exploring relationships between L1 and L2 writing strategy use and integrated writing performance: A cross-linguistic perspective	4
Teaching L2 Spanish idioms with semantic motivation: should this be done proactively or retroactively?	4
An exploratory study on second language learner engagement in different types of interactive tasks in video-chat and text-chat communication	4
Assessing self-efficacy, working memory, and proficiency in a multimedia writing environment	4
Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China	4
Lexical and grammatical collocations in beginning and intermediate L2 argumentative essays: a bigram study	4
Cognitive fatigue induced by spaced and massed practice: effects on idiom accuracy across L2 proficiency levels	4
Unpacking the positioning of being “disengaged” and “disrespectful” in class through nexus analysis: an international student’s navigation of institutional and interactional university norms	4
Investigating the effects of varying Accelerative Integrated Method instruction on spoken recall accuracy: a case study with junior primary learners of French	4
Exploring the hierarchical antecedents of willingness to communicate and its relationship with utterance fluency in learning Chinese as a foreign language	4
What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation	4
Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China	4
Exploring the dynamic metaphor patterns in describing English public speaking anxiety among Chinese learners	4