OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Learning is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual Differences in Second Language Listening: Examining the Role of Knowledge, Metacognitive Awareness, Memory, and Attention	53
Motivational Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Achievement: A Regulatory Focus Perspective	50
Calculating the Relative Importance of Multiple Regression Predictor Variables Using Dominance Analysis and Random Forests	32
(Generalized Linear) Mixed‐Effects Modeling: A Learner Corpus Example	31
To What Extent Does the Involvement Load Hypothesis Predict Incidental L2 Vocabulary Learning? A Meta‐Analysis	30
Methodological Synthesis of Cluster Analysis in Second Language Research	28
Crosslinguistic Sharing of Morphological Awareness in Biliteracy Development: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Correlation Coefficients	27
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	26
Proficiency Reporting Practices in Research on Second Language Acquisition: Have We Made any Progress?	25
Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics	24
Study and Scale Quality in Second Language Survey Research, 2009–2019: The Case of Anxiety and Motivation	23
Collocational Processing in L1 and L2: The Effects of Word Frequency, Collocational Frequency, and Association	22
Optimizing Fluency Training for Speaking Skills Transfer: Comparing the Effects of Blocked and Interleaved Task Repetition	21
The Effect of Speaker Proficiency on Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in L2 Spanish: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Munro and Derwing (1995a)	21
The Neuroscience of Implicit Learning	19
The Role of Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilingual Processing: Lexicon Versus Syntax	19
The Longitudinal Development of Fine‐Phonetic Detail: Stop Production in a Domestic Immersion Program	18
Longitudinal Evidence for Simultaneous Bilingual Language Development With Shifting Language Dominance, and How to Explain It	17
The Long‐Term Proficiency of Early, Middle, and Late Starters Learning English as a Foreign Language at School: A Narrative Review and Empirical Study	17
The Nuclear Word Family List: A List of the Most Frequent Family Members, Including Base and Affixed Words	17
Distinctions in the Acquisition of Vocabulary and Grammar: An Individual Differences Approach	16
Fluency in Dialogue: Turn‐Taking Behavior Shapes Perceived Fluency in Native and Nonnative Speech	16
Learning Novel Word Meanings: An ERP Study on Lexical Consolidation in Monolingual, Inexperienced Foreign Language Learners	16
Revisiting Perception–Production Relationships: Exploring a New Approach to Investigate Perception as a Time‐Varying Predictor	15
The Extraordinary Ordinary: Re‐engineering Multilingualism as a Natural Category	15

Relationships Between Phonological Awareness and Reading in Spanish: A Meta‐Analysis	15
A Case for Multisite Second Language Acquisition Research: Challenges, Risks, and Rewards	15
Foreignness or Processing Fluency? On Understanding the Negative Bias Toward Foreign‐Accented Speakers	14
Learning and Processing Multiple Languages: The More the Easier?	14
Domain‐General Auditory Processing Partially Explains Second Language Speech Learning in Classroom Settings: A Review and Generalization Study	14
The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements	14
Learning Vocabulary Through Listening: The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge and Listening Proficiency	14
Conducting a Netnography in Second Language Acquisition Research	12
The Role of Case Marking and Word Order in Cross‐Linguistic Structural Priming in Late L2 Acquisition	12
Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: The Effects of Semantic Relatedness, Form Similarity, and Translation Direction	12
The What and When of Universal Perception: A Review of Early Speech Sound Acquisition	11
The Relationship Between First and Second Language Writing: Investigating the Effects of First Language Complexity on Second Language Complexity in Advanced Stages of Learning	11
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study	11
Danish as a Window Onto Language Processing and Learning	11
Text Readability and Processing Effort in Second Language Reading: A Computational and Eye‐Tracking Investigation	11
Bilingual and Multilingual Mental Lexicon: A Modeling Study With Linear Discriminative Learning	10
Conducting Linguistic Experiments Online With OpenSesame and OSWeb	10
Brain Plasticity in Adulthood—ERP Evidence for L1‐attrition in Lexicon and Morphosyntax After Predominant L2 Use	10
Using Utterance Recall to Assess Second Language Proficiency	9
(Ir)regular Mood Swings: Lexical Variability in Heritage Speakers’ Oral Production of Subjunctive Mood	9
Context and Generalizability in Multisite L2 Classroom Research: The Impact of Deductive Versus Guided Inductive Instruction	9
From Play to Language: Infants’ Actions on Objects Cascade to Word Learning	9
Incidental Learning of Collocations in an Academic Lecture Through Different Input Modes	9
Controlled and Automatic Processing in the Acceptability Judgment Task: An Eye‐Tracking Study	8
The Role of Linguistic Alignment on Question Development in Face‐to‐Face and Synchronous Computer‐Mediated Communication Contexts: A Conceptual Replication Study	8
Novel Word Learning Among Bilinguals Can Be Better Through the (Dominant) First Language Than Through the Second Language	8
Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing	8
Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study	8
Listening to Songs and Singing Benefitted Initial Stages of Second Language Pronunciation but Not Recall of Word Meaning	7
Background Characteristics and Oral Proficiency Development Over Time in Lower‐Division College Foreign Language Programs	7
A Generative Approach to the Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Spanish se	7
Self‐Assessment of Comprehensibility and Accentedness in Second Language Korean	6
Teachers’ Verbal Lexical Explanation for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	6
Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective	6
Whole‐Class Co‐Construction in a High School Spanish Classroom: A Conversation Analytic Perspective	6
Effects of Orthographic Forms on Second Language Speech Production and Phonological Awareness, With Consideration of Speaker‐Level Predictors	6
Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning	6
A Sociocultural Perspective: Seeking Evidence of Development in a PACE Approach to Grammar Instruction	6
(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?	6
Incidental and Multimodal High Variability Phonetic Training: Potential, Limits, and Future Directions	6
Distributional Learning of Speech Sounds: An Exploratory Study Into the Effects of Prior Language Experience	6
The Efficacy of Gesture on Second Language Pronunciation: An Exploratory Study of Handclapping as a Classroom Instructional Tool	6