Modern Language Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Language Journal 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Control–Value Theory Approach to Boredom in English Classes Among University Students in China136
The Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale97
The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future61
Tracking the Evolution of Chinese Learners’ Multilingual Motivation Through a Longitudinal Q Methodology60
Academic Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning: An Investigation of Language‐Specific Grit and Its Conceptual Correlates51
Empirically Defining Language Learning and Teaching Materials in Use Through Sociomaterial Perspectives48
The Relationship Between Utterance and Perceived Fluency: A Meta‐Analysis of Correlational Studies43
How Effective Are Intentional Vocabulary‐Learning Activities? A Meta‐Analysis40
Rewilding Language Education: Emergent Assemblages and Entangled Actions29
Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices: The Ethics of Quantitative Data Handling and Reporting in Applied Linguistics29
Navigating the Challenges of L2 Reading: Self‐Efficacy, Self‐Regulatory Reading Strategies, and Learner Profiles27
Emergency Remote Language Teaching and U.S.‐Based College‐Level World Language Educators’ Intention to Adopt Online Teaching in Postpandemic Times26
Land as Interlocutor: A Study of Ojibwe Learner Language in Interaction on and With Naturally Occurring ‘Materials’26
Digital Game‐Based Learning of Formulaic Expressions in Second Language Chinese21
Student Self‐Initiated Use of Smartphones in Multilingual Writing Classrooms: Making Learner Agency and Multiple Involvements Visible21
Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality20
Cognitive and Socioaffective Predictors of L2 Microdevelopment in Late Adulthood: A Longitudinal Intervention Study20
Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide Through Community‐Engaged Action Research: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration19
Small Samples in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research19
Grammatical and Lexical Development During Short‐Term Study Abroad: Exploring L2 Contact and Initial Proficiency19
Rethinking Mobility and Language: From the Global South18
Coda: An Expanding Research Agenda for the Use of Instructional Materials18
Effects of Plurilingual Teaching on Grammatical Development in Early Foreign‐Language Learning18
May I See Your Credentials, Please? Displays of Pedagogical Expertise by Language Teaching Researchers16
Effect‐Driven Sample Sizes in Second Language Instructed Vocabulary Acquisition Research15
Bridging the Gap Between Willingness to Communicate and Learner Talk15
Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities14
The Negotiation of Meaning in Aviation English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus‐Informed Discursive Approach13
Translingual and Transcultural Reflection in Study Abroad: The Case of a Vietnamese‐American Student in Guatemala13
Student Artifacts as Language Learning Materials: A New Materialist Analysis of South Korean Job Seekers’ Student‐Generated Materials Use12
By the Old Gods and the New: The Effect of the Congruence and Incongruence of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Enjoyment on Self‐Perceived Proficiency12
Learning Potentials Afforded by a Film in Task‐Based Language Classroom Interactions12
The Smartphone as a Personal Cognitive Artifact Supporting Participation in Interaction12
Emergent L2 Grammars in and for Social Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue11
A Q Methodology Study Into Vision of Italian L2 University Students: An Australian Perspective11
Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Introduction to the Special Issue11
Nurturing Teachers’ Research Mindset in an Inquiry‐Based Language Teacher Education Course11
Communicative Effectiveness in BELF (English as a Business Lingua Franca) Meetings: ‘Explaining’ as a Pragmatic Strategy11
Exploring Evolving Motivation to Learn Two Languages Simultaneously in a Study‐Abroad Context10
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning10
Retention and Attrition in Early‐Career Foreign Language Teachers in Austria and the United Kingdom10
Noun‐Phrase Complexity Measures in Chinese and Their Relationship to L2 Chinese Writing Quality: A Comparison with Topic–Comment‐Unit‐Based Measures10
Collaborative Mobilizations of Interbodied Communication for Cooperative Action10
Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study10
Identification and Characteristics of Strong, Average, and Weak Foreign Language Readers: The Simple View of Reading Model10
Performance Profiles on Second Language Speaking Tasks10
Materials‐in‐Action: Pedagogical Ergonomics of a French‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom10
“I Look Mexican, So They Assume I Speak Spanish”: Latinx Teacher Candidates’ Experiences With Raciolinguistic Policing9
Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project9
At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad9
Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)9
Localized Globalization: Directives in Augmented Reality Game Interaction9
The Role of Language Teacher Metacognition and Executive Function in Exemplary Classroom Practice9
Second Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward French Varieties: The Roles of Learning Experience and Social Networks9
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue9
Stance‐Taking in Heritage Language Writing8
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective8
Japanese Students’ Emotional Lived Experiences in English Language Learning, Learner Identities, and Their Transformation8
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice8
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning8
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA8
The effect of the cognitive–emotional dialectic on L2 development: Enhancing our understanding of perezhivanie8
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude7
“I Preferred to Take Another Activity From the Textbook”: An Activity–Theoretical Study of Learning to Design Language Teaching Materials7
Space Oddities: The Acquisition of Agreement Verbs by L2 Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands7
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect6
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward6
Sociomateriality of Semiscripted Pair‐Work Prompts in Beginner‐Level Japanese‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classrooms6
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging6
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction6
The Relative Contribution of Language Complexity to Second Language Video Lectures Difficulty Assessment6
Irony Comprehension in Bidialectal Speakers6
Sustaining Dual Language Immersion: Partner Language Outcomes in a Statewide Program6
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks6
The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements6
Debate as L2 Pedagogy: The Effects of Debating on Writing Development in Secondary Education6
Toward Cognitive and Temporal Mobility: Language Considerations in Refugee Education6
A Meta‐Analysis of Hybrid Language Instruction and Call for Future Research5
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword5
The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences5
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions5
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking5
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms5
Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad5
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data5
Proficiency and Preference Organization in Second Language Mandarin Chinese Refusals5
Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power5
An appraisal‐based examination of language teacher emotions in anxiety‐provoking classroom situations using vignette methodology5
Accumulating Semiotic Resources for Social Actions: A Case Study of L2 Icelandic in the Wild5
Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students5
Modeling mediation in the dynamic assessment of listening ability from the cognitive diagnostic perspective5
The processing of multiword expressions in L1 and L2 Chinese: Evidence from reaction times and eye movements4
Visual Context Modulates L2 Long‐Term Structural Priming for the Chinese Ba Construction4
Implementing the Seal of Biliteracy: A Multiple Case Study of Six High‐Awarding Districts4
Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education4
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education4
Translingual caring and translingual aggression: (Re)centering criticality in the research and practice of translanguaging pedagogy4
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences4
Cooperative Accomplishment of Multilingual Language Tutorial: An Intercultural Pragmatics Study4
Discursive Enactment of Agency in Study‐Abroad Interviews4
Is English the Culprit? Longitudinal Associations Between Students’ Value Beliefs in English, German, and French in Multilingual Switzerland4
Does Mode of Input Affect How Second Language Learners Create Form–Meaning Connections and Pronounce Second Language Words?4
Construction Learning by Child Learners of Foreign Language: Input Distribution and Learner Factors4
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning3
Withdrawn: Exploring the associations among task complexity, task motivation, task engagement, and linguistic complexity in L2 writing3
Issue Information ‐ TOC3
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom3
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary3
Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education3
Use of word lists in a high‐stakes, low‐exposure context: Topic‐driven or frequency‐informed3
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction3
The Relationship Between Lexical Coverage and Type of Reading Comprehension in Beginning L2 Spanish Learners3
Translanguaging as a space of simultaneity: Theorizing translanguaging pedagogies in English medium schools from a spatial perspective3
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class3
Pedagogies of discomfort in the world language classroom: Ethical tensions and considerations for educators3
Sociolinguistic competence and varietal repertoires in a second language: A study on addressee‐dependent varietal behavior using virtual reality2
What Does Explicit Knowledge Look Like? An Analysis of Information Structure in Rule Formation by L2 Learners and Its Relationship With Guided Inductive Learning2
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use2
How do learners perceive task repetition? Distributed practice effects on engagement and metacognitive judgment2
Using multimodal language learning histories to understand learning experiences and beliefs of second language learners in Japan2
Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Commentary2
The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing2
The Efficacy of Incidental Attention to Formulaic and Nonformulaic Forms in Focus on Form2
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing2
Individual differences in L1 attainment and language aptitude predict L2 achievement in instructed language learners2
Global perspectives on heritage language education and emotion: Introduction to the special issue2
Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching2
Reframing “the Foreign TA Problem” as “the American Listener Problem”2
Combinations and Connections: Reaching Across Disciplinary Boundaries2
Curriculum as a Discursive and Performative Space for Subjectivity and Learning: Understanding Immigrant Adolescents’ Language Use in Classroom Discourse2
Trans theory: Complexifying positionality, complexifying representation2
Second Language Speech Intelligibility Revisited: Differential Roles of Phonological Accuracy, Visual Speech, and Iconic Gesture1
Undoing cislingualism1
Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility1
L2 English speaking syntactic complexity: Data preprocessing issues, reliability of automated analysis, and the effects of proficiency, L1 background, and topic1
Bringing the body into play: The corporeal aspect in second language acquisition1
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The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom1
Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments1
Emotions and emotion regulation in L2 classroom speaking tasks: A mixed‐methods study combining the idiodynamic and quantitative perspectives1
Forced (Im)Mobilities at the Nexus of Race and Language in Pandemic Times1
Open generative AI changes a lot, but not everything1
Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching1
Understanding teacher professional commitment from a positive psychology perspective: A case from Myanmar's Chinese language teachers1
THE ISSUE1
Elaine K. Horwitz (1950–2022) In Memoriam1
Can Japanese learners of English comprehend inflectional and derivational forms in listening? Testing the validity of the word family counting unit1
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations1
Pero yo también estoy aprendiendo”: Negotiating expert and novice positions in heritage–second language learner interaction1
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Implementation of an Uncontrolled, Real‐World Task: Vocabulary Learning Opportunities and Students’ Perceptions1
Ideology, Policy, and Potentials for Dialogue1
The pursuit of a gender‐just language classroom1
The “Foreign TA Problem” as a Demand for Aesthetic Labor1
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The “Foreign TA Problem” Forty Years On1
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Scaffolding comprehension with reading while listening and the role of reading speed and text complexity1
Unfolding language awareness in a plurilingual context: A study of metalinguistic, practical, and critical language awareness1
Understanding the factors supporting language teachers’ sustained motivation until retirement1
In solidarity: The coalitional work of gender justice and language education1
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