OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Second Language Research 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating L2 writing processes across independent and integrated tasks: A mixed-methods study	34
Five common pitfalls in eye-tracking research	27
What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language	26
Effects of spacing on contextual vocabulary learning: Spacing facilitates the acquisition of explicit, but not tacit, vocabulary knowledge	22
Which words do English non-native speakers know? New supernational levels based on yes/no decision	20
L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Response to commentaries on the keynote ‘Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition’	17
Lexical frequency and morphological regularity as sources of heritage speaker variability in the acquisition of mood	16
On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds: Evidence from Anglophones’ processing of the French /u/–/y/ contrast	16
From sounds to words: The relation between phonological and lexical processing of tone in L2 Mandarin	16
Cue coalitions and additivity in predictive processing: The interaction between case and prosody in L2 German	14
Reviewing the potential of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) for capturing second language exposure and use	14
L2 transfer of L1 island-insensitivity: The case of Norwegian	13
Audio-visual input for learning L2 vocabulary and grammatical constructions	13
The emergence of awareness in uninstructed L2 learning: A visual world eye tracking study	13
L1, L2 and L3: Same or different?	12
Roles of collocation in L2 oral proficiency revisited: Different tasks, L1 vs. L2 raters, and cross-sectional vs. longitudinal analyses	12
CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research	12
Exploring the depths of second language processing with eye tracking: An introduction	12
Promoting L2 acquisition of multiword units through textually enhanced audiovisual input: An eye-tracking study	9
Cratylus’ silence: On the philosophy and methodology of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA	8
Successful second language pronunciation learning is linked to domain-general auditory processing rather than music aptitude	8
Language acquisition in the digital age: L2 English input effects on children’s L1 Icelandic	8
Turtles all the way down: Micro-cues and piecemeal transfer in L3 phonology and syntax	8
Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope	7
Effects of verb–construction association on second language constructional generalizations in production and comprehension	7

Language transfer: a useful or pernicious concept?	7
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge: The mediating effects of salience in form–meaning connections	6
The role of feedback and instruction on the cross-situational learning of vocabulary and morphosyntax: Mixed effects models reveal local and global effects on acquisition	6
Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition: Pros and cons	5
Activation of L1 orthography in L2 word reading: Constraints from language and writing system	5
From a simple to a complex aspectual system: Feature reassembly in L2 acquisition of Chinese imperfective markers by English speakers	5
The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming	5
The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy	5
In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’	5
Learnability in the acquisition of the English tough construction by L1-Korean adult and child L2 learners	5
Language switch costs in a lexical decision task: Symmetry and cognitive correlates	5
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	4
The production and comprehension of Spanish se use in L2 and heritage Spanish	4
Identification of English vowels by non-native listeners: Effects of listeners’ experience of the target dialect and talkers’ language background	4
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	4
Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil	4
Effects of L1 morphological type on L2 morphological awareness	4
Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing	4
Lexical fixedness and compositionality in L1 speakers’ and L2 learners’ intuitions about word combinations: Evidence from Italian	4
Polarity adverbs facilitate predictive processing in L2 Japanese	4