Applied Linguistics

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Linguistics 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Minority Language as a Second Language: Challenges and Achievements88
Motivation, Autonomy, and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning: A Multi-Perspective Investigation in Hungary81
A Call for Methodological Reflexivity in Researching Language Testing and Migration66
FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING FROM AUDIOVISUAL INPUT: THE ROLE OF ORIGINAL VERSION TELEVISION BY PATTEMORE & GESA (SPRINGER, 2025)62
Ethical awareness versus actual practices: Chinese doctoral students in AI-assisted academic writing59
The Effects of CLIL and Sources of Individual Differences on Receptive and Productive EFL Skills at the Onset of Primary School53
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions47
COVID-19 Online Medical Consultation: Understanding the Affective Practice44
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time42
Enhancing Educators’ Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Critical Literacy39
Metapragmatic Knowledge and Transfer of Learning across Speech Acts38
“Becoming a Linguist: Advice from Key Thinkers in Language Studies”31
Notes On Contributors31
Suresh Canagarajah: LANGUAGE INCOMPETENCE: LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE THROUGH CANCER, DISABILITY, AND ANOMALOUS EMBODIMENT31
Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education30
Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging The Invention of Multilingualism28
Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing: The Evolution of an Academic Genre28
Translingual Practices27
Open Access Academic Lectures as Sources for Incidental Vocabulary Learning: Examining the Role of Input Mode, Frequency, Type of Vocabulary, and Elaboration25
Knowledge-making from a postgraduate writers’ circle: A Southern Reflectory25
Automatic Analysis of Constructional Diversity as a Predictor of EFL Students’ Writing Proficiency24
Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing23
‘I call myself a five (rubbish/loser), but I don’t really want to be’: online identity and translanguaging play in social media23
Translanguaging and Educational Inequality in the Global South: Stance-taking amongst Brazilian Teachers of English22
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis21
Voice and Voicing Strategies Across Native and Second Language Writing: Extending the Interactional Metadiscourse Framework21
Revisiting US Undergraduate Perceptions of Non-native English Varieties: From Millennials to Generation Z21
Language tester identity in policy contexts: A narrative analytical approach20
Challenging Folk-Linguistics: Grammatical and Spelling Variation in Students’ Writing in Hebrew on WhatsApp and in Essays18
Which Words Matter Most? Operationalizing Lexical Prevalence For Rank-Ordered Word Lists18
Language and Culture as Sources of Inequality in US Police Interrogations18
#FleeingWuhan: Legitimation and Delegitimation Strategies in Hostile Online Discourse18
Fact vs. fiction in professional speechwriting18
Towards Clarification of the Second Language Learner Engagement Construct: Taking Stock of its Conceptual Overlap and Hierarchical Structure18
Correction to: A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education17
Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching17
The ‘Existential Fabric’ of War: Explaining the Phrase of War in the Laws of War17
A semiotic study of small-detailed signs in North America vernacular landscape17
Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction: Affect, Behavior, and Cognition16
Self-access Strategy Instruction for Academic Writing Vocabulary: What Learners Actually Do15
Culture travellers: Theorizing transculturing through transcultural fandom in the GenAI age15
British Conversation is Changing: Resonance and Engagement in the BNC1994 and the BNC201415
Choreographies of Multilingualism. Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore.14
Empowering Students Through the Construction of a Translanguaging Space in an English as a First Language Classroom14
Practice and Automatization in Second Language Research: Perspectives From Skill Acquisition Theory and Cognitive Psychology13
A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education13
Notes on Contributors13
Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions13
Verb semantic cohesion in L2 production: a semantic network analysis of written and spoken modalities by Korean EFL learners12
The Relationship Between L2 Interactional Competence and Proficiency12
Self-Regulated Learning and Knowledge Blindness: Bringing Language into View12
Writing Trajectories of Grammatical Complexity at the University: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers in BAWE12
Gregory Hadley and Andrew Boon: Critical Thinking11
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–202011
A longitudinal examination of psychological capital and academic achievement in EMI courses: A multivariate latent growth curve modeling approach11
English in China: Creativity and commodificationCapital, commodity, and English language teaching11
Doing Vocabulary Research by Elke Peters (Routledge, New York, 2025)11
Engaging with language play: practices of Korean English teachers in elementary classrooms11
“It’s very well written!”: Revisiting praise in teacher written feedback from the perspective of feedback literacy10
COVID-19 vaccination campaigns for diverse language groups in Pennsylvania/USA and Western Cape/South Africa: Examples from national and sub-national levels10
Vocabulary knowledge and reading proficiency in extramural L2 English among ESCAPERS in Norway and Flanders10
Managing the Flow of Talk: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Multiword Expression det er sant in L2 Norwegian Interactions10
Adopting social process tracing in applied linguistics: Lessons from an English-medium Instruction policy case study10
Generative AI and its dilemmas: exploring AI from a translanguaging perspective10
Teachers Reflecting on Boredom in the Language Classroom: Mirosław Pawlak, Mariusz Kruk, and Joanna Zawodniak9
Correction to: Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing9
An exploration of psychological capital resources, mindfulness, L2 grit, and L2 achievement: An explanatory mixed-methods study9
Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers9
Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data9
Vocabulary structure in foreign language learners: a complex network analysis perspective8
Linguistic and Geographic Diversity in Research on Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism: An Analysis of Selected Journals8
A Decolonial Crip Linguistics8
Institutional “lingualism” as an interactional achievement: A sequential typology of initial language access8
The Comprehensibility and Appreciation of Non-Binary Pronouns in Newspaper Reporting. The Case of Hen and Die in Dutch8
English and global citizenship education: A critical examination of multilingual classrooms in the global south8
Grounded Theory in Applied Linguistics Research: A Practical Guide (Second Edition)8
Teaching Styles in North American University Classrooms: A Corpus-Driven Linguistic Analysis8
Transitioning between ‘Outside’ and ‘Inside’ Knowledge in an Online University EMI Chemistry Course8
Comparative analysis of epistemic stance in abstracts of published biomedical research and associated National Institutes of Health funding applications (1985–2020)7
Words and meanings in cancer communication: Denotational and connotational misalignments7
The Discourse of Digital Activism: A Linguistic Analysis of Calls for Action Concerning the Fashion Revolution7
Language Assemblages7
Correction7
L2 Pragmatic Development in Constructing and Negotiating Contextual Meanings7
‘Mentor, friend, teacher, and learner’: The beauty, opportunities, and challenges of heritage speakers as heritage language educators7
The Handbook Of Usage-Based Linguistics7
Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency: Motivation, cognition and identity7
What does language commodification do for language teachers? Exploring imaginations of Taiwanese Mandarin as a commodity in the online gig economy6
Rethinking translanguaging: (Trans)bordering, spatiality, and academic discourse socialization in a graduate TESOL classroom6
Examining English language learners’ longitudinal development of syntactic complexity across five CEFR levels with a robust measurement design: A mixed-methods approach6
Spatial policing: Race, surveillance, and the politics of community language schools in White public-school spaces6
The development and trends of complex dynamic systems theory in applied linguistics: A bibliometric analysis from 1997 to 20236
Belonging-in-Interaction: Expressing and Performing Translocal Belongings Through Language and Arts Practice6
Correction to: Connecting Extramural English with ELT: Teacher Reports from Austria, Finland, France and Sweden6
Enhancing disciplinary voice through feedback-seeking in AI-assisted doctoral writing for publication6
Notes On Contributors6
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking Corpus Compilation and Analysis5
Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines5
Correction to: Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions5
Linguistic discrimination and resistance: Puerto Rican youth language ideologies5
Challenging assumptions about migrant language use: Evidence from a Swedish study with the Experience Sampling Method and the Lang-Track-App5
Modeling Intra- and Inter-individual Changes in L2 Classroom Engagement5
Redefining the notion of nativeness and age of first exposure: Evidence from Italian as a second and heritage language5
From Silence to Silencing? Contradictions and Tensions in Language Revitalization5
Bridging voices: Rethinking feedback for heritage learners in the age of artificial intelligence5
Individual Network of Linguistic Practice (INoLP): Quantifying social networks and pragmatic competence of international students during their sojourn abroad5
Making the Case for Audience Design in Conversational AI: Users’ Pragmatic Strategies and Rapport Expectations in Interaction with a Task-Oriented Chatbot5
Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research5
‘I’m a Latina with an Asian body’: Authenticating ethnolinguistic identities amid raciolinguistic and monolingual ideologies5
Translanguaging Practices in Content-based Instruction in L2 Arabic5
Abnormal deceivers? Biopower in clinician accounts of embodiment and life for people with intersex variations5
The pragmatism of emotional-expressive words in Kazakh linguistics: A study of M. Auezov’s ‘The Way of Abai’4
Transformation of Applied Linguistics in the Global South Context of Bangladesh: Researcher Agency, Imagination, and North-South Cooperation4
Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: An investigation of the Foreign Language Effect4
Destabilizing Racial Discourses in Casual Talk-in-interaction4
Teachers as influencers and personal brands on Instagram: double-tapping language ideologies in the attention economy4
Processability Theory4
Interpreting Swearwords in Police Interviews and Perceived Offensiveness of Insults in the UK and Spain4
Multilingual Realities, Monolingual Ideologies: Social Media Representations of Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States4
Pedagogical translanguaging with GenAI: From dilemmas to design4
Correction to: Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–20204
The Effect of Automatic Text Simplification on L2 Readers’ Text Comprehension4
Mobile Assisted Language Learning Across Educational Contexts4
Four decades of research on multiword expressions: A bibliometric analysis4
Purpose and Strategic Engagement in Informal English Digital Activities and Aspects of Vocabulary Knowledge4
Exploring artificial intelligence appraisal: Appraisal patterns in GPT-generated and human-authored book reviews3
Notes on Contributors3
A neglected area: Elementary school EFL education and teacher self-efficacy3
English-medium instruction in European higher education: Measurement validity and the state of play in 2023/20243
Contribution of linguistic complexity to L2 learners’ perception on Chinese text comprehensibility and reading speed: a comparative judgment approach3
Transprogramming in the primary-level programming lessons: reconceptualizing translanguaging in the era of artificial intelligence3
ELF Density: Extending English as a Lingua Franca Research to Monological ELF Texts and Speeches3
Correction to: Handoyo Puji Widodo, Alistair Wood, and Deepti Gupta: Asian English Language Classrooms: Where Theory and Practice Meet3
Towards Epistemic Justice: Constructing Knowers in Multilingual Classrooms3
Rethinking language learning motivation through a dialogic lens3
Weight Stigma: Towards a Language-Informed Analytical Framework3
Individual Differences in Second Language Learning: A Book Review of Kristin Kersten and Adam Winsler (2023) And Shaofeng Li, Phil Hiver, and Mostafa Papi (2022)3
English-Medium Instruction in International Bio-Science Engineering Programs in Vietnam: Incentivization, Support, and Discretion in a Context of Academic Consolidation3
Problematizing Possible -isms in Adult Second Language Classrooms3
Virtuous Outlaws: Affective Claims to Value in Professional Speechwriters’ Discourse3
A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Second Language Pragmatics Instruction3
David M. Palfreyman and Nizar Habash (Eds): Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis3
Sadeghi Karim and Ghaderi Farah (Eds): Theory and Practice in Second Language Teacher Identity: Researching, Theorising and Enacting3
Accent Bias in Professional Evaluations: A Conceptual Replication Study in Brazil2
Testing Talk: Ways to Assess Second Language Oral Proficiency2
From pop psychology to L2 pedagogy: The ‘Let Them Theory’ as a reflective frame in applied linguistics2
Behind the screen: Turning to language work in the movies2
Online commenting culture and ideologies of language learning: Masculinities, optimization and techno-solutionism in an informal learning community2
Are Textbooks Authentic From a Developmental Perspective? A Corpus Analysis of Word Use in Chinese Textbooks in US Universities2
Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education: Criticality, Decolonization, and Social Justice: Derek Hird2
How Do Students Receive Help from Teachers? Initiating Assistance in Small Group Classroom Interactions2
Vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary use in writing: A cross-sectional comparison of L2 English and L2 French2
Notes On Contributors2
Do Examiners and Test-takers imitate each other? Dialogic resonance in second language testing2
Multi-discourse Modes in Student Writing: Effects of Combining Narrative and Argument Discourse Modes on Argumentative Essay Scores2
Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and Applications: by Shu-Ling Wu, Lihong Huang and Carl Polley2
‘We can fix this. Let’s get you out of trouble, son’: an analysis of the transitivity and appraisal patterns in the Netflix TV show When They See Us2
Emotional, Attitudinal, and Sociobiographical Sources of Flow in Online and In-Person EFL Classrooms2
Automatized phonological vocabulary knowledge as L2 cognitive fluency: Testing the declarative–automatized integrative model in L2 speech production2
Expertise in Second Language Writing Instruction: Conceptual and Empirical Understandings2
The effects of typographic enhancement on L2 collocation processing and learning from reading: An eye-tracking study2
To what extent does reviewing notes affect L2 vocabulary learning?2
Collecting Big Data Through Citizen Science: Gamification and Game-based Approaches to Data Collection in Applied Linguistics2
Critical intersubjectivity: Leveraging designed narratives to mitigate language ideologies in preservice teacher education2
It’s an Imagined Fuṣḥatopia: Teacher Language Ideologies and Multilingual Practices in Arabic Heritage Learning in the United States2
How many L2 word meanings can learners recall? A latent trait approach to vocabulary size estimation2
Paths to cultural adjustment: A configurational analysis of individual, sociocultural, and environmental factors in the experiences of international students2
The Twenty Most Effective Language Teaching Techniques: Ian Stephen Paul Nation2
Correction to: The Causal Relationship between Learner Motivation and Language Achievement: New Dynamic Perspective2
Move–Bundle Connection in Conclusion Sections of Research Articles Across Disciplines2
Marrying Collective Wisdom: Researcher-practitioner Collaboration in Developing ELT Textbooks2
Discourse-based approaches to autistic focussed interests: Understanding shared focus, mutual accommodation, and multimodal expression2
Implementing the ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements: The Localization of Aviation English Testing2
A Migrant’s Chronotopic Identities in Playful Talk in a Classroom1
Translanguaging in practice: A motherscholar’s journey to nurture Cantonese heritage language development1
Corpus Linguistics And Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives, Issues, And Findings1
Firebreak, circuit break, or water break? The impact of metaphor on people’s perception and attitudes towards lockdown measures1
Diversity and Standards in Writing for Publication in the Age of AI—Between a Rock and a Hard Place1
‘Rising Number of Homeless is the Legacy of Tory Failure’: Discoursal Changes and Transitivity Patterns in the Representation of Homelessness in The Guardian and Daily Mail from 2000 to 1
Processing Pronouns of Address in a Job Interview in French and German1
Reflexivity in human-written and ChatGPT-generated English research article abstracts: A comparison of metadiscourse1
Unpacking translanguaging practices in intercultural healthcare communication: Experiences of international medical students in a Chinese hospital1
Pockets of Possibility: Students of English in Diverse, Multilingual Secondary Schools in Austria1
Unilingualism and Unibilingualism in Colombia1
“Man, I don’t know anything”: Students insights into Afro-Latinx (re)presentation in Spanish textbooks1
Multimodal Academic Discourse Socialization: Examining Geoscience Students’ Disciplinary Knowledge Construction and Socialization at a Canadian University1
Task Planning and Oral L2 Production: A Research Synthesis and Meta-analysis1
Refashioning linguistic expertise: Translanguaging TESOL in social media1
Colonizability and Hermeneutical Injustice in Applied Linguistics Research: (Im)possibilities for Epistemological Delinking1
Narrative Skills in Mandarin–English Dual Language Immersion Learners1
Capturing Thresholds and Continuities: Individual Differences as Predictors of L2 Sociolinguistic Repertoires in Adult Migrant Learners in Austria1
Can sentiment analysis help to assess accuracy in interpreting? A corpus-assisted computational linguistic approach1
Measuring the impact of academic literacy interventions: Refining an evaluation design through self-reflection and feedback1
How Children Read Multilingual Texts: A Description of Reading Translanguaging Strategies1
Sketches Toward a Decolonial Applied Linguistics1
“Bridging cultures with love”: Spirituality in fostering intercultural effectiveness. The effects of language1
Linguistic dissociation: A general theory to explain the phenomenon of linguistic distancing behaviours1
The Impact of Filipina Domestic Workers on Hong Kong Primary School Children’s L2 English Spoken CAF and Reading Accuracy and Fluency1
Topic and Accent Coverage in a Commercialized L2 Listening Test: Implications for Test-takers’ Identity1
L1 and L2 use in pre-task planning and task repetition: The role of proficiency1
Linguistic Features Distinguishing Students’ Writing Ability Aligned with CEFR Levels1
Correction to: A Translanguaging Perspective on Teacher Contingency in Hong Kong English Medium Instruction History Classrooms1
Precarity in an adult refugee’s basic literacy learning1
Linguistic correlates of coherence in L2 narrative speech: a mixed-methods approach1
Revisiting the Construct Validity of Self-Regulating Capacity in Vocabulary Learning Scale: The Confirmatory Composite Analysis (CCA) Approach1
The Art of the Possible: The Constraints Associated with Writing Local TESOL Textbooks1
Applied Linguistics Communities of Practice: Improving the Research Practice Relationship1
English in Specialized Communication and its Impact on Spanish Medical Lexicon1
Failing Fortunes of Applied Linguistics: Towards Surviving Mastery1
Heritage Language Instruction to Young Immigrants: An In-depth Look at the Psycholinguistic Effects During the Simultaneous Acquisition of Two Second Languages1
Unveiling the dynamics of learner engagement: An idiodynamic investigation of L2 speaking tasks1
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