Language Learning

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Learning 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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To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?53
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals49
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception45
Order Effects in Second Language Learning37
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)27
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Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability22
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning22
What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary22
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language22
Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)21
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration19
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The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands17
Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages17
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing15
Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’14
Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist13
Open Research in Artificial Intelligence and the Search for Common Ground in Reproducibility: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”12
Where is Community Involvement in Open Science? A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”11
Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overv11
Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”11
Assessing Verb‐Construction Integration in Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Analyses of Written and Spoken Production11
Heading South, Unmuting Multilingualisms: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education”11
The Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics – A response from Europe: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied L10
Dialect‐Specific Modes Influence Second Language Production: Evidence From Bidialectal Shanghai–Mandarin Chinese Learners of English Within the Second Language Linguistic Perception Model10
Optionality, Complexity, Difficulty: The Next Step: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”10
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)10
Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood9
A Commentary on “Proactive Language Learning Theory”9
Study Abroad Students’ Social Contacts in Different Linguistic Contexts and Their Relationship With English Use and Development9
Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian9
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder8
Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study8
Plurality Is a Good Start, but It's Time for Unification: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”8
Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences8
The Unbearable Whiteness of Communicative Competence Research: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”8
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation8
Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study8
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Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education8
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study7
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Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses7
The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language7
Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions6
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis6
The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries6
Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable6
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment6
Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials6
Alignment of Top‐Down Policies With Emerging Bottom‐Up Practices: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”6
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Phraseological Use and Development During a Stay Abroad: Exploring Sensitivity to Frequency and Cue Contingency6
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study6
From a Molar to a Molecular Approach to the Developmental Trajectory of Syntax Comprehension of Persons with Intellectual Disability6
Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension6
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning Sign Languages as Additional Languages: Considering Language‐ and Modality‐Specific Factors5
A Race Critical Peer Commentary With the Post‐White Orientation: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”5
Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children5
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Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment5
On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries5
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Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective5
Social Aspects in Language Learning: New Perspectives from Study‐Abroad Research5
Uncovering Sampling Biases, Advancing Inclusivity, and Rethinking Theoretical Accounts in Second Language Acquisition: Introduction to the Special Issue SLA for All?4
Unraveling the Complexities of Second Language Lexical Stress Processing: The Impact of First Language Transfer, Second Language Proficiency, and Exposure4
Critical and Dialogic Perspectives on Why Ecologies Matter: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Educati4
Process and Product in ISLA Research: Courage, Commitment, and Tolerance for Ambiguity4
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Undesirable Difficulty of Interleaved Practice: The Importance of Initial Blocked Practice for Declarative Knowledge Development in Low‐Achieving Adolescents4
Declarative and Automatized Phonological Vocabulary Knowledge: Recognition, Recall, Lexicosemantic Judgment, and Listening‐Focused Employability of Second Language Words4
Proactive Language Learning Theory4
Teachers’ Verbal Lexical Explanation for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Meta‐Analysis4
Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing4
Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension4
Moving Second Language Processing Beyond an Isolationist View: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”3
Measuring Teenage Learners’ Automatized, Explicit, and/or Implicit Knowledge: A Question of Context?3
To Bilingualism and Beyond! Modeling Bilingualism Requires Looking Beyond Language: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”3
Incidental and Multimodal High Variability Phonetic Training: Potential, Limits, and Future Directions3
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Neural Basis of Second Language Speech Learning – Past and Future: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”3
Word‐Combination‐Based Measures of Phraseological Diversity, Sophistication, and Complexity and Their Relationship to Second Language Chinese Proficiency and Writing Quality3
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Captioned Viewing: A Meta‐Analysis3
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Peer Interaction Dynamics and Second Language Learning Trajectories During Study Abroad: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Dynamic Computational Social Network Analysis3
Engaging Indigenous Language Learning Through Relational Accountability: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”3
Lexico‐Semantic Attrition of Native Language: Evidence From Russian–Hebrew Bilinguals3
Desirable Difficulties in Language Learning? How Talker Variability Impacts Artificial Grammar Learning3
Implicit Learning in Production: Productive Generalization of New Form–Meaning Connections in the Absence of Awareness3
Novel Word Learning Among Bilinguals Can Be Better Through the (Dominant) First Language Than Through the Second Language3
Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals3
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Text Readability and Processing Effort in Second Language Reading: A Computational and Eye‐Tracking Investigation2
The Interplay of Complexity, Genre, and Second Language Proficiency: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”2
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Even in a Relatively New Field We Can Learn From the Past to Build a More Robust Future: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past 2
Rethinking First Language–Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project2
Investigating the Relation Between Second Language Proficiency and Study Success Using a Causal Inference Approach2
Neural Evidence for Syntactic Unification in Second Language Sentence Comprehension: A Time‐Frequency Analysis2
Linguistic Priming and Learning Adjacent and Nonadjacent Dependencies in Serial Reaction Time Tasks2
Incidental Learning of Collocations in an Academic Lecture Through Different Input Modes2
Disambiguating Complexity: From CAF to CAFIC: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”2
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L2 Learners’ Signed Language Processing Relates, in Part, to Perspective‐Taking Skills2
Investigating Effects of Bilingualism on Syntactic Processing: Testing Structural Sensitivity Theory2
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The Association Between Metalinguistic Awareness and Chinese Word Reading: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis2
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Simulating the Relationship Between Nonword Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2‐Year‐Olds: Evidence From the Language 0–5 Project2
Move, Rove, Love: Color Cues Help Learning Novel English Words When Pronunciation Is Not Predictable From Spelling2
Inventing and Reinventing the Cog: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”2
Testing the Relationship of Linguistic Complexity to Second Language Learners’ Comparative Judgment on Text Difficulty2
Costs and Benefits of Spacing for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Does Relearning Override the Positive and Negative Effects of Spacing?2
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From Play to Language: Infants’ Actions on Objects Cascade to Word Learning1
Repetition and Incidental Learning of Multiword Units: A Conceptual Multisite Replication Study of Webb, Newton, and Chang (2013)1
Cognitive–Linguistic Skills Explain Chinese Reading Comprehension Within and Beyond the Simple View of Reading in Hong Kong Kindergarteners1
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Crowdsourced Adaptive Comparative Judgment: A Community‐Based Solution for Proficiency Rating1
Whither Bilinguals, Natives, and Variability? A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”1
Spacing Effects in Task Repetition Research1
The Bidirectionality of Pragmatic Transfer in Chinese English Language Learners' Compliment Responses: The Effects of Second Language Proficiency1
Error‐Correction Mechanisms in Language Learning: Modeling Individuals1
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Contrasting Fixed‐ and Mixed‐Effects Modeling in Vocabulary Research: Reanalyzing Laufer (2024) and McLean et al. (2020)1
Overcoming Challenges to Open Research Practices – A Perspective From the Global South: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”1
The Postprint Pledge – Toward a Culture of Researcher‐Driven Initiatives: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”1
Is Second Language Attrition Inevitable After Instruction Ends? An Exploratory Longitudinal Study of Advanced Instructed Second Language Users1
Context and Generalizability in Multisite L2 Classroom Research: The Impact of Deductive Versus Guided Inductive Instruction1
Signature Dynamics of Development in Second Language Sociolinguistic Competence: Evidence From an Intensive Microlongitudinal Study1
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CLASSIC Utterance Boundary: A Chunking‐Based Model of Early Naturalistic Word Segmentation1
Relationships Between Phonological Awareness and Reading in Spanish: A Meta‐Analysis1
(Ir)regular Mood Swings: Lexical Variability in Heritage Speakers’ Oral Production of Subjunctive Mood1
Critical Period Claim Revisited: Reanalysis of Hartshorne, Tenenbaum, and Pinker (2018) Suggests Steady Decline and Learner‐Type Differences1
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Learning Novel Words in an Immersive Virtual‐Reality Context: Tracking Lexicalization Through Behavioral and Event‐Related‐Potential Measures1
Longitudinal Predictors of Listening Comprehension in Bilingual Primary School‐Aged Children1
Chinese Learners of English Are Conceptually Blind to Temporal Differences Conveyed by Tense1
Which Aspects of Visual Motivation Aid the Implicit Learning of Signs at First Exposure?1
The Effect of COVID‐Related Quarantine and Attitudes on Time Conceptualization: Evidence From Temporal Focus and Implicit Space‐Time Mappings1
Modeling the Effects of Task Repetition in Second Language Writing: Examining Interindividual and Intraindividual Variability1
Rejecting Competence – Essentialist Constructs Reproduce Ableism and White Supremacy in Linguistic Theory: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of 1
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Self‐Repair in Hearing L2 Learners’ Spontaneous Signing: A Developmental Study1
Practice Makes Perfect, but How Much Is Necessary? The Role of Relearning in Second Language Grammar Acquisition1
The Evolution of Science in Second Language Acquisition Research: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”1
“That Was a Good One”: Talking About Irony in Study Abroad1
Iconicity and Gesture Jointly Facilitate Learning of Second Language Signs at First Exposure in Hearing Nonsigners1
The Role of Cognates and Language Distance in Simultaneous Bilingual Children's Productive Vocabulary Acquisition1
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Diving Deep Into the Relationship Between Speech Fluency and Second Language Proficiency: A Meta‐Analysis1
Academic Language as Linguistic Capital – A Window to Social Justice: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research a1
Exploring “Intersubjectivity Negotiation Episodes” and “Language Related Episodes” in Second‐Language Peer Interaction1
A Generative Approach to the Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Spanish se1
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