OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Learning 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Motivational Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Achievement: A Regulatory Focus Perspective	65
Calculating the Relative Importance of Multiple Regression Predictor Variables Using Dominance Analysis and Random Forests	54
(Generalized Linear) Mixed‐Effects Modeling: A Learner Corpus Example	36
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	35
Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics	35
To What Extent Does the Involvement Load Hypothesis Predict Incidental L2 Vocabulary Learning? A Meta‐Analysis	34
Proficiency Reporting Practices in Research on Second Language Acquisition: Have We Made any Progress?	32
Study and Scale Quality in Second Language Survey Research, 2009–2019: The Case of Anxiety and Motivation	30
The Effect of Speaker Proficiency on Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in L2 Spanish: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Munro and Derwing (1995a)	25
A Case for Multisite Second Language Acquisition Research: Challenges, Risks, and Rewards	20
From Play to Language: Infants’ Actions on Objects Cascade to Word Learning	19
Relationships Between Phonological Awareness and Reading in Spanish: A Meta‐Analysis	18
Domain‐General Auditory Processing Partially Explains Second Language Speech Learning in Classroom Settings: A Review and Generalization Study	18
The Nuclear Word Family List: A List of the Most Frequent Family Members, Including Base and Affixed Words	18
Learning and Processing Multiple Languages: The More the Easier?	17
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study	17
Text Readability and Processing Effort in Second Language Reading: A Computational and Eye‐Tracking Investigation	17
(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?	15
Conducting a Netnography in Second Language Acquisition Research	15
Conducting Linguistic Experiments Online With OpenSesame and OSWeb	14
Incidental Learning of Collocations in an Academic Lecture Through Different Input Modes	13
(Ir)regular Mood Swings: Lexical Variability in Heritage Speakers’ Oral Production of Subjunctive Mood	12
Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: The Effects of Semantic Relatedness, Form Similarity, and Translation Direction	12
Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study	11
Danish as a Window Onto Language Processing and Learning	11

Context and Generalizability in Multisite L2 Classroom Research: The Impact of Deductive Versus Guided Inductive Instruction	11
Bilingual and Multilingual Mental Lexicon: A Modeling Study With Linear Discriminative Learning	10
Incidental and Multimodal High Variability Phonetic Training: Potential, Limits, and Future Directions	10
Spacing Effects in Task Repetition Research	10
Controlled and Automatic Processing in the Acceptability Judgment Task: An Eye‐Tracking Study	10
Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning	9
Listening to Songs and Singing Benefitted Initial Stages of Second Language Pronunciation but Not Recall of Word Meaning	9
Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing	9
Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment	9
Self‐Assessment of Comprehensibility and Accentedness in Second Language Korean	8
Exploring “Intersubjectivity Negotiation Episodes” and “Language Related Episodes” in Second‐Language Peer Interaction	8
Novel Word Learning Among Bilinguals Can Be Better Through the (Dominant) First Language Than Through the Second Language	8
A Generative Approach to the Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Spanish se	8
Examining Second Language Listening and Metacognitive Awareness: A Meta‐Analytic Structural Equation Modeling Approach	7
Does Nonlinguistic Segmentation Predict Literacy in Second Language Education? Statistical Learning in Ivorian Primary Schools	7
Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective	7
Crowdsourced Adaptive Comparative Judgment: A Community‐Based Solution for Proficiency Rating	7
Cognitive–Linguistic Skills Explain Chinese Reading Comprehension Within and Beyond the Simple View of Reading in Hong Kong Kindergarteners	7
The Lang‐Track‐App: Open‐Source Tools for Implementing the Experience Sampling Method in Second Language Acquisition Research	6
Whole‐Class Co‐Construction in a High School Spanish Classroom: A Conversation Analytic Perspective	6
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation	6
Uncovering Sampling Biases, Advancing Inclusivity, and Rethinking Theoretical Accounts in Second Language Acquisition: Introduction to the Special Issue SLA for All?	6
A Sociocultural Perspective: Seeking Evidence of Development in a PACE Approach to Grammar Instruction	6
Critical Period Claim Revisited: Reanalysis of Hartshorne, Tenenbaum, and Pinker (2018) Suggests Steady Decline and Learner‐Type Differences	6
Word‐Combination‐Based Measures of Phraseological Diversity, Sophistication, and Complexity and Their Relationship to Second Language Chinese Proficiency and Writing Quality	6
Teachers’ Verbal Lexical Explanation for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	6
Investigating Effects of Bilingualism on Syntactic Processing: Testing Structural Sensitivity Theory	6
To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?	6
Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education	6
The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language	6
Cognitive Predictors of Child Second Language Comprehension and Syntactic Learning	6
Desirable Difficulties in Language Learning? How Talker Variability Impacts Artificial Grammar Learning	5
Assessing Verb‐Construction Integration in Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Analyses of Written and Spoken Production	5
English Language Learners’ Comprehension of Logical Relationships in Expository Texts: Evidence for the Confluence of General Vocabulary and Text‐Connecting Functions	5
Implicit Statistical Learning in Naturalistic and Instructed Morphosyntactic Attainment: An Aptitude‐Treatment Interaction Design	5
Which Aspects of Visual Motivation Aid the Implicit Learning of Signs at First Exposure?	5
Boosting Bilingual Metalinguistic Awareness Under Dual Language Activation: Some Implications for Bilingual Education	5
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning	5
Second Language Chinese Computer‐Based Writing by Learners With Alphabetic First Languages: Writing Behaviors, Second Language Proficiency, Genre, and Text Quality	5
Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood	5
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing	5
Introduction: What's Special About Multilingualism?	4
Error‐Correction Mechanisms in Language Learning: Modeling Individuals	4
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?”	4
Costs and Benefits of Spacing for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Does Relearning Override the Positive and Negative Effects of Spacing?	4
Voices of Three Junior Scholars: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”	4
Introduction: Investigating Explicit L2 Grammar Instruction Through Multiple Theoretical and Methodological Lenses	4
Syntax Matters: Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Similarity in Third Language Acquisition	4
Investigating First and Second Language Speaker Intuitions of Phrasal Frequency and Association Strength of Multiword Sequences	4
Frequency of Exposure Influences Accentedness and Comprehensibility in Learners’ Pronunciation of Second Language Words	4

Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions	4
The Strength of Cross‐Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish–Dutch Emergent Bilinguals: Testing Three Hypotheses	4