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Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Second Language Acquisition is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
On the effects of task focus and processing level on the perception–production link in second-language speech learning	142
Development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations: The roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice condition	80
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations	73
SLA volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	67
Estimating reliability for response-time difference measures: Toward a standardized, model-based approach	56
Challenges in inflected word processing for L2 speakers	43
REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF OVERTLY IDENTICAL COMPLEX FORMS IN L1 AND L2	39
GROWTH, FIXED, AND MIXED MINDSETS	37
DO LEARNERS CONNECT SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION WITH REGIONAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS?	37
Comparing the longitudinal development of phraseological complexity across oral and written tasks	34
Mind the gap: Psycholinguistic and individual factors affecting expressive and receptive vocabulary skills in English-Gaelic bilingual children	33
Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: A conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020)	29
MASSED TASK REPETITION IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT	27
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction	27
Validity evidence for an EIT as an assessment for Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners	26
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING REVISITED	24
Co-text, context, and listening proficiency as crucial variables in intelligibility among nonnative users of English – ERRATUM	24
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – CORRIGENDUM	24
EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH	23
Examining the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for comprehension: An eye-tracking study	22
EXPLORING CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN GENDER MARKING IN SPANISH	22
Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills	21
Disentangling the causal role of motivation, enjoyment, and anxiety in second language speech learning: A final report	20
EDITOR’S MESSAGE	20
SLA volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	19

Motivational dispositions predict qualitative differences in oral task performance	19
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction – CORRIGENDUM	19
The relationship between boredom and second language achievement: A multilevel meta-analysis	18
REGULATORY FIT EFFECTS ON THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL STRESS	17
Contextual learning and retention of phrasal verbs	17
Cross-language interactions of phonetic and phonological processes	17
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction	17
The additive use of prosody and morphosyntax in L2 German	16
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	16
Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research	16
THE LEMMA DILEMMA	15
The interplay of mindsets, aptitude, grit, and language achievement: What role does gender play?	15
Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus	15
Differential effects of identification and discrimination training tasks on L2 vowel identification and discrimination	15
PROSODIC PATTERNS IN SYLHETI-ENGLISH BILINGUALS – ADDENDUM	14
Why you should stop using the ideal L2 self and the L2 motivational self-system to measure motivation (Reaction to Al-Hoorie, Hiver & In’nami, 2024)	14
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN L2 LITERACY ACQUISITION	13
A longitudinal investigation of the effects of language instruction versus immersion on cognitive functions in young adult Chinese speakers learning English	13
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	12
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016)	12
Variability as a functional marker of second language development in older adult learners	11
Development of verb argument constructions in L2 English learners: A close replication of research question 3 in Römer and Berger (2019)	11
Study and instrument quality in perception-based L2 pronunciation research	11
CLASSROOM LEARNERS’ ACQUISITION OF THE SPANISH COPULA WITH ADJECTIVES	11
THE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF PROCEDURAL MEMORY ASSESSMENTS USED IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH	10
Sense-aware connective-based indices of cohesion and their relationship to cohesion ratings of English language learners’ written production	10
ADVANCING THE STATE OF THE ART IN L2 SPEECH PERCEPTION-PRODUCTION RESEARCH: REVISITING THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICES	10
IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE CONSTRUCT, VALIDATING THE MEASURES, AND EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE	10
The effects of distributed practice on second language fluency development	10
VOICE ONSET TIME IN MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS: ITALIAN HERITAGE SPEAKERS IN GERMANY WITH L3 ENGLISH	9
SLA volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	9
How well are primary and secondary meanings of L2 words acquired?	9
SLA volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	9
SLA volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	9
Reevaluating trials to criterion as a measure in second language research	9
How to present L2 Chinese words effectively for learning: Exploring learning outcomes and learner perceptions	9
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children – ADDENDUM	8
Text recall and use of advance organisers in first and second language	8
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading	8
Introduction to the special issue on working memory and L2 writing: Implications for SLA individual differences research	8
Task-generated processes in second language speech production: Exploring the neural correlates of task complexity during silent pauses	8
Longitudinal development of second language utterance fluency, cognitive fluency, and their relationship	8
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study	8
LONGITUDINAL L2 DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROSODIC MARKING OF PRAGMATIC MEANING	8
The effects of proficiency level and dual-task condition on L2 self-monitoring behavior	7
Acceptance and engagement patterns of mobile-assisted language learning among non-conventional adult L2 learners: A survival analysis	7
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF IMPLICIT-STATISTICAL LEARNING APTITUDE TO IMPLICIT SECOND-LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE	7
Affect as a component of second language speech perception	7
Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach	7
EFFECT SIZE–DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES	7

Do they like me?	7
PROSODIC PATTERNS IN SYLHETI-ENGLISH BILINGUALS	6
Second language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts	6
Manufactured crisis	6
Predicting L2-Spanish fluency from L1-English fluency and L2 proficiency: A conceptual replication	6
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – CORRIGENDUM – RETRACTION	6
DOUBLE-NUMBER MARKING MATTERS FOR BOTH L1 AND L2 PROCESSING OF NONLOCAL AGREEMENT SIMILARLY	6
Kimberly Geeslin, In Memoriam	6
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading – ERRATUM	6
Multilingualism and native speakerism in academic journals’ language policies: Exploring a potential power of applied linguistics journals in promoting equitable publishing practices	6
L2 PROCESSING OF LINGUISTIC AND NONLINGUISTIC INFORMATION	6
SLA volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
The interpretation of verbal moods in Spanish: A close replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014)	6
PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF STRESS BY NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS LEARNING SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE	5
SLA volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	5
QUANTIFYING THE DIFFERENCE IN READING FLUENCY BETWEEN L1 AND L2 READERS OF ENGLISH	5
The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency	5
SLA volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Meta-analysis of second language research with complex research designs	5
Individual differences in L2 listening proficiency revisited: Roles of form, meaning, and use aspects of phonological vocabulary knowledge	5
The 2022 Albert Valdman Award	4
Cognitive individual differences in the process and product of L2 writing	4
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research	4
SLA volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
Do verbal and nonverbal declarative memory tasks in second language research measure the same abilities?	4
SLA volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
THE EFFECTS OF TALKER VARIABILITY AND FREQUENCY OF EXPOSURE ON THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN WORD KNOWLEDGE	4
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE-LINGUISTIC TASK DIFFICULTY AND L1-L2 INTERACTION FOR ACADEMIC LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN TURKISH–DUTCH EMERGENT BILINGUALS	4
Foreign language learning boredom: Refining its measurement and determining its role in language learning	4
“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context	4
SLA volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
PREDICTION AND ERROR-BASED LEARNING IN L2 PROCESSING AND ACQUISITION	4
SLA volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	4
Spanish heritage language learners’ motivational profile in the postsecondary classroom: Insights from psychological network modeling	4
A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency	4
EPILOGUE	4
WHY IS THE COMPONENTIAL CONSTRUCT OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE SO DIFFICULT TO CAPTURE?	4
DOING L2 SPEECH RESEARCH ONLINE: WHY AND HOW TO COLLECT ONLINE RATINGS DATA	3
Learning without awareness revisited and reconsidered	3
The effects of interleaved and blocked corpus-based practice on L2 pragmatic development	3
EXAMINING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE	3
SELLING THE (WORD) FAMILY SILVER?	3
The impact of collocational proficiency features on expert ratings of L2 English learners’ writing	3
Inhibitory and facilitative effects of lexical neighbors in spoken word recognition: The role of language experience	3
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement? – CORRIGENDUM	3
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016) – ERRATUM	3
THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE TIMING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK	3
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children	3
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
First language effects on incidental vocabulary learning through bimodal input	3
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
SLA volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study	3
Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail	3
Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency	3
L2 LEARNERS’ ADAPTATION TO AN L2 STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM L1	3
Linguistic dissimilarity increases age-related decline in adult language learning	2
Revisiting the moderating effect of speaker proficiency on the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish	2
ELICITED IMITATION TASKS AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	2
SLA volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
L2 GRIT	2
Task design, L1 literacy, and second language oracy	2
SLA volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
WORD FAMILIES AND LEMMAS, NOT A REAL DILEMMA	2
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – RETRACTED	2
The relationship between poststimulus pause, learner proficiency, and working memory in an Elicited Imitation Task	2
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS FROM MEANINGFUL INPUT	2
Meta-analysis of second language research with complex research designs – ADDENDUM	2
WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING	2
THE INFLUENCE OF ORTHOGRAPHY ON ORAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN LEARNERS OF CHINESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE	2
Perceptual integrality of foreign segmental and tonal information: Dimensional transfer hypothesis	2
Announcing the 2024 Susan Gass Award for Impact in SLA	2
Modulating motion event categorization through brief training: Meaning-focused versus form-focused instructional conditions	2
Reexamining the role of regulatory focus in second language achievement	2
SLA volume 46 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	2
Processing to learn noncanonical word orders: Exploring linguistic and cognitive predictors of reanalysis in early L2 sentence comprehension	2
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction – CORRIGENDUM	2
Wh-Dependency Processing in a Naturalistic Exposure Context: Sensitivity to Abstract Syntactic Structure in High-Working-Memory L2 Speakers	2
Optimizing the input for learning of L2-specific constructions: The roles of Zipfian and balanced input, explicit rules and working memory	2
Second language anxiety in conversation and its relationship with speakers’ perceptions of the interaction and their social networks	2