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Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Second Language Acquisition 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
SLA volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	107
THE PERCEPTION OF ARABIC VOWEL DURATION BY L1 HEBREW SPEAKERS	64
SLA volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	57
SLA volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	54
SLA volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	46
SLA volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	42
The effectiveness of note taking through exposure to L2 input: A meta-analysis	36
REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF OVERTLY IDENTICAL COMPLEX FORMS IN L1 AND L2	36
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations	32
Variability in heritage and second language writers’ linguistic complexity: Roles of proficiency and motivational beliefs – ERRATUM	30
SLA volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	29
THE EFFECTS OF TALKER VARIABILITY AND FREQUENCY OF EXPOSURE ON THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN WORD KNOWLEDGE	28
SLA volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	24
LEARNING ENGLISH IN TODAY’S GLOBAL WORLD	24
The importance of psychological and social factors in adult SLA: The case of productive collocation knowledge in L2 Swedish of L1 French long-term residents	23
SLA volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	21
Estimating reliability for response-time difference measures: Toward a standardized, model-based approach	21
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE-LINGUISTIC TASK DIFFICULTY AND L1-L2 INTERACTION FOR ACADEMIC LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN TURKISH–DUTCH EMERGENT BILINGUALS	18
Reevaluating trials to criterion as a measure in second language research	17
VOICE ONSET TIME IN MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS: ITALIAN HERITAGE SPEAKERS IN GERMANY WITH L3 ENGLISH	17
Exploring the relationship of working memory to the temporal distribution of pausing and revision behaviors during L2 writing	16
PROBING THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF LLAMA_D AS A MEASURE OF IMPLICIT LEARNING APTITUDE	16
SLA volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	16
EXPLORING AN ELICITED IMITATION TASK AS A MEASURE OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY	16
A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT AUDITORY PROCESSING IN L2 SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL ACQUISITION	15

Development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations: The roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice condition	15
EXAMINING RATER PERCEPTION OF HOLDS AS A VISUAL CUE OF LISTENER NONUNDERSTANDING	14
Automated assessment of second language comprehensibility: Review, training, validation, and generalization studies	14
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	14
Comparing the longitudinal development of phraseological complexity across oral and written tasks	13
On the effects of task focus and processing level on the perception–production link in second-language speech learning	13
PRIMING DATIVE CLITICS IN SPOKEN SPANISH AS A SECOND AND HERITAGE LANGUAGE	13
Construction and validation of a questionnaire to study engagement in informal second language learning	13
The prediction from MLAT to L2 achievement is largely due to MLAT assessment of underlying L1 abilities	12
Spanish heritage language learners’ motivational profile in the postsecondary classroom: Insights from psychological network modeling	12
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research	12
DO LEARNERS CONNECT SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION WITH REGIONAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS?	11
Cognitive individual differences in the process and product of L2 writing	11
GROWTH, FIXED, AND MIXED MINDSETS	11
VISUAL CUES AND RATER PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBILITY, ACCENTEDNESS, AND FLUENCY	11
ARE REPLICATION STUDIES INFREQUENT BECAUSE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES?	11
Sense-aware connective-based indices of cohesion and their relationship to cohesion ratings of English language learners’ written production	10
Variability in native and nonnative language: An ERP study of semantic and grammar processing	10
How well are primary and secondary meanings of L2 words acquired?	10
P-CURVING AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINSTP-HACKING IN SLA RESEARCH	10
Foreign language learning boredom: Refining its measurement and determining its role in language learning	10
Feeling signs: Motor encoding enhances sign language learning in hearing adults	10
Language proficiency modulates L2 orthographic learning mechanism: Evidence from event-related brain potentials in overt naming	10
The relationship between social network typology, L2 proficiency growth, and curriculum design in university study abroad	9
Different variables hold varying significance from childhood to adolescence	9
BEYOND LINGUISTIC FEATURES	9
A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency	9
Research methods for IDs and TBLT: A substantive and methodological review	9
Embarrassment in English language classrooms	9
THOUGHTS ON WORD FAMILIES	9
MEASUREMENT PROPERTIES OF A STANDARDIZED ELICITED IMITATION TEST: AN INTEGRATIVE DATA ANALYSIS	8
INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS PLUS	8
The role of processing goals in second language predictive processing	8
COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING	8
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement? – CORRIGENDUM	8
EFFECT SIZE-DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES – CORRIGENDUM	8
Domain-general auditory processing as a conceptual and measurement framework for second language speech learning aptitude: A test-retest reliability study	8
2023 Valdman Award Acceptance Note	7
Explicit information and working memory in second-language acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive: A replication and extension of Fernández (2008)	7
Second language productive knowledge of collocations: Does knowledge of individual words matter?	7
Lexical coverage in L1 and L2 viewing comprehension	7
SLA volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
DO L1-L2 DIFFERENCES IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING REFLECT PROCESSING DEMANDS OR DIFFICULTY OF FORM-FUNCTION MAPPING?	7
FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL L2 LEARNING	6
Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: A conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020)	6
Text recall and use of advance organisers in first and second language	6
SLA volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	6
EXPLORING SYNTACTIC PRIMING AS A MEASURE OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE	6
An fMRI validation study of the word-monitoring task as a measure of implicit knowledge: Exploring the role of explicit and implicit aptitudes in behavioral and neural processing	6
Mind the gap: Psycholinguistic and individual factors affecting expressive and receptive vocabulary skills in English-Gaelic bilingual children	6

WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND L2 READING	6
SLA volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH	5
How to present L2 Chinese words effectively for learning: Exploring learning outcomes and learner perceptions	5
Why are some articles highly cited in applied linguistics? A bibliometric study	5
Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study	5
Language immersion effects in the use of tú and usted by L1-French and L1-European Portuguese learners of Spanish	5
Optimizing distributed practice online	5
Age effects in spoken second language vocabulary attainment beyond the critical period	5
LONGITUDINAL L2 DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROSODIC MARKING OF PRAGMATIC MEANING	5
DOING L2 SPEECH RESEARCH ONLINE: WHY AND HOW TO COLLECT ONLINE RATINGS DATA	4
THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE TIMING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK	4
MAPPING RESEARCH ON L2 PRONUNCIATION	4
Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail	4
MASSED TASK REPETITION IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT	4
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016) – ERRATUM	4
Definite and indefinite article accuracy in learner English: A multifactorial analysis	4
Effects of distributed practice on the acquisition of verb-noun collocations	4
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study	4
A longitudinal study into learners’ productive collocation knowledge in L2 German and factors affecting the learning	4
The effects of interleaved and blocked corpus-based practice on L2 pragmatic development	4
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL PHONOLOGICAL FEATURE DURING A SEMESTER ABROAD IN ARGENTINA – CORRIGENDUM	4
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction	4
The elusive impact of L2 immersion on translation priming	4
EXAMINING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE	4
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING REVISITED	4
Coherence and comprehensibility in second language speakers’ academic speaking performance	4
Co-text, context, and listening proficiency as crucial variables in intelligibility among nonnative users of English – ERRATUM	4
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY: NEW INSIGHTS FROM A COMPARISON OF TWO L2 ENGLISH PARALLEL FORMS – ADDENDUM	4
THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE USE OF LEXICAL UNITS	3
SLA volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Is L2 pronunciation affected by increased task complexity in pronunciation-unfocused speaking tasks?	3
SLA volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
SLA volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
ON COMPLEXITY AND DIVERGENCE IN HERITAGE LANGUAGE GRAMMARS	3
EDITOR’S MESSAGE	3
Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills	3
Learning without awareness revisited and reconsidered	3
THE EFFECTS OF IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON L2 DEVELOPMENT – ERRATUM	3
Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency	3
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
The 2020 Albert Valdman Award	3
SLA volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Task-generated processes in second language speech production: Exploring the neural correlates of task complexity during silent pauses	3
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children	3
SLA volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE LIMITATIONS OF SIZE AND LEVELS TESTS OF WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	3
SLA volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
INCIDENTAL ACQUISITION OF MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS THROUGH AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS	2
Motivational dispositions predict qualitative differences in oral task performance	2
SELECTING LEXICAL UNITS IN WORDLISTS FOR EFL LEARNERS	2
BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS, MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATIONS, EFFORT, AND VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	2
WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING	2
SLA volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
EXPLORING CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN GENDER MARKING IN SPANISH	2
First language effects on incidental vocabulary learning through bimodal input	2
SELLING THE (WORD) FAMILY SILVER?	2
The complexity epistemology and ontology in second language acquisition: A critical review	2
L2 LEARNERS’ ADAPTATION TO AN L2 STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM L1	2
The effects of proficiency level and dual-task condition on L2 self-monitoring behavior	2
Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach	2
Introduction to the special issue on working memory and L2 writing: Implications for SLA individual differences research	2
Exploring working memory and language dominance in heritage bilinguals’ writing processes	2
EMOTION-LADEN TEXTS AND WORDS	2
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF IMPLICIT-STATISTICAL LEARNING APTITUDE TO IMPLICIT SECOND-LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE	2
Scrutinizing LLAMA D as a measure of implicit learning aptitude	2
EFFECT SIZE–DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES	1
Replication Studies in Second Language Acquisition Research: Definitions, Issues, Resources, and Future Directions	1
A meta-analysis of the reliability of second language reading comprehension assessment tools	1
Variability and individual differences in L2 sociolinguistic evaluations: The GROUP, the INDIVIDUAL and the HOMOGENEOUS ENSEMBLE	1
Longitudinal development of second language utterance fluency, cognitive fluency, and their relationship	1
Manufactured crisis	1
SLA volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Evaluating evidence for the reliability and validity of lexical diversity indices in L2 oral task responses	1
Cross-language interactions of phonetic and phonological processes	1
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction	1
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading	1
Examining the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for comprehension: An eye-tracking study	1

L2 GRIT	1
Mapping the predictive role of MLAT subtests for L2 achievement through regression commonality analysis	1
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction – CORRIGENDUM	1
Second language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts	1
Effects of speaking task and proficiency on the midclause pausing characteristics of L1 and L2 speech from the same speakers	1
The interplay of mindsets, aptitude, grit, and language achievement: What role does gender play?	1
A role for verb regularity in the L2 processing of the Spanish subjunctive mood: Evidence from eye-tracking	1
L2 PROCESSING OF LINGUISTIC AND NONLINGUISTIC INFORMATION	1
Contextual learning and retention of phrasal verbs	1
When and how to use confirmatory composite analysis (CCA) in second language research	1
SLA volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN’S HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNING	1
INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS PLUS: CREATING AN IMPROVED PREDICTIVE MODEL OF INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY LEARNING – ERRATUM	1
Acceptance and engagement patterns of mobile-assisted language learning among non-conventional adult L2 learners: A survival analysis	1
Processing to learn noncanonical word orders: Exploring linguistic and cognitive predictors of reanalysis in early L2 sentence comprehension	1
Inhibitory and facilitative effects of lexical neighbors in spoken word recognition: The role of language experience	1
ELICITED IMITATION TASKS AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	1
Assessing accent anxiety: A measure of foreign English speakers’ concerns about their accents	1
EFFECTS OF LEARNING DIRECTION IN RETRIEVAL PRACTICE ON EFL VOCABULARY LEARNING	1