OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Learning is 5. 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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Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability	38
Order Effects in Second Language Learning	31
What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary	30
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning	29
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals	29
Prosody in Pragmatic Competence: Proficiency Impact on Pitch and Fluency Features in Request‐Making in Second Language Chinese	25
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)	23
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language	22
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception	22
Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)	21
To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?	21
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The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands	19
Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist	18
Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions	17
Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)	16
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration	15
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing	14
Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’	14
Optionality, Complexity, Difficulty: The Next Step: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”	13
Where is Community Involvement in Open Science? A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”	13
Heading South, Unmuting Multilingualisms: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education”	13

Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages	13
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?”	13
Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overv	12
Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”	12
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 L	12
Assessing Verb‐Construction Integration in Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Analyses of Written and Spoken Production	12
Study Abroad Students’ Social Contacts in Different Linguistic Contexts and Their Relationship With English Use and Development	12
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)	11
Dialect‐Specific Modes Influence Second Language Production: Evidence From Bidialectal Shanghai–Mandarin Chinese Learners of English Within the Second Language Linguistic Perception Model	11
Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian	11
Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences	11
Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study	10
The Unbearable Whiteness of Communicative Competence Research: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”	10
Incorporating Co‐occurrence Into the Operationalization of Speech Disfluency for Second Language Pronunciation and Oral Proficiency Assessment	10
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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”	10
Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study	10
Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood	10
A Commentary on “Proactive Language Learning Theory”	10
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder	10
The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language	10
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment	9
Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education	9
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Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions	9
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation	9
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	8
Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses	8
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study	8
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?”	7
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From a Molar to a Molecular Approach to the Developmental Trajectory of Syntax Comprehension of Persons with Intellectual Disability	7
Phraseological Use and Development During a Stay Abroad: Exploring Sensitivity to Frequency and Cue Contingency	7
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study	7
Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension	7
Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning	6
Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable	6
Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment	6
The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	6
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The Role of Prosody in International Communication in English in Call Center Interactions	6
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Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials	6
Developing an Automatic Pronunciation Scorer: Aligning Speech Evaluation Models and Applied Linguistics Constructs	6
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Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective	5
On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	5
Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning Sign Languages as Additional Languages: Considering Language‐ and Modality‐Specific Factors	5
Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children	5

Social Aspects in Language Learning: New Perspectives from Study‐Abroad Research	5
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
Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language	5
Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing	5