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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement?	96
Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach	56
BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS, MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATIONS, EFFORT, AND VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	54
EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH	53
GROWTH, FIXED, AND MIXED MINDSETS	46
COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING	42
ELICITED IMITATION TASKS AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	36
INCIDENTAL ACQUISITION OF MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS THROUGH AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS	30
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF IMPLICIT-STATISTICAL LEARNING APTITUDE TO IMPLICIT SECOND-LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE	30
Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus	29
The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency	29
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF SINGLE WORDS AND COLLOCATIONS THROUGH VIEWING AN ACADEMIC LECTURE	28
EXAMINING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE	24
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS FROM MEANINGFUL INPUT	24
L2 GRIT	21
THE LEMMA DILEMMA	20
EFFECT SIZE–DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES	19
ADVANCING THE STATE OF THE ART IN L2 SPEECH PERCEPTION-PRODUCTION RESEARCH: REVISITING THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICES	18
FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL L2 LEARNING	17
THE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF PROCEDURAL MEMORY ASSESSMENTS USED IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH	17
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research	16
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	16
INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS PLUS	16
WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING	16
ARE REPLICATION STUDIES INFREQUENT BECAUSE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES?	15

Scale quality in second-language anxiety and WTC: A methodological synthesis	15
DOING L2 SPEECH RESEARCH ONLINE: WHY AND HOW TO COLLECT ONLINE RATINGS DATA	14
LEARNING ENGLISH IN TODAY’S GLOBAL WORLD	14
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION AND PROFICIENCY	13
IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE CONSTRUCT, VALIDATING THE MEASURES, AND EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE	13
MEASUREMENT PROPERTIES OF A STANDARDIZED ELICITED IMITATION TEST: AN INTEGRATIVE DATA ANALYSIS	13
INTERRATER RELIABILITY IN SECOND LANGUAGE META-ANALYSES	13
DO LEARNERS CONNECT SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION WITH REGIONAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS?	13
Variability in native and nonnative language: An ERP study of semantic and grammar processing	12
THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE TIMING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK	12
BEYOND LINGUISTIC FEATURES	11
Working memory and second language writing: A systematic review	11
MASSED TASK REPETITION IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT	11
THOUGHTS ON WORD FAMILIES	11
DOMAIN-GENERAL AUDITORY PROCESSING EXPLAINS MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF L2 ACQUISITION IN ADULTHOOD	11
MAPPING RESEARCH ON L2 PRONUNCIATION	11
QUANTIFYING THE DIFFERENCE IN READING FLUENCY BETWEEN L1 AND L2 READERS OF ENGLISH	11
CONCEPTUALIZING L2 VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	10
EMOTION-LADEN TEXTS AND WORDS	10
LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN’S HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNING	10
VISUAL CUES AND RATER PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBILITY, ACCENTEDNESS, AND FLUENCY	10
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE LIMITATIONS OF SIZE AND LEVELS TESTS OF WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	10
A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT AUDITORY PROCESSING IN L2 SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL ACQUISITION	10
USING PROSODY TO PREDICT UPCOMING REFERENTS IN THE L1 AND THE L2	9
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study	9
PREDICTION AND ERROR-BASED LEARNING IN L2 PROCESSING AND ACQUISITION	9
Effects of distributed practice on the acquisition of verb-noun collocations	9
THE EFFECTS OF TALKER VARIABILITY AND FREQUENCY OF EXPOSURE ON THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN WORD KNOWLEDGE	9
IMPLICITNESS AND EXPLICITNESS IN COGNITIVE ABILITIES AND CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK	9
A longitudinal study into learners’ productive collocation knowledge in L2 German and factors affecting the learning	9
Construction and validation of a questionnaire to study engagement in informal second language learning	9
LEMMAS, FLEMMAS, WORD FAMILIES, AND COMMON SENSE	8
VOICE ONSET TIME IN MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS: ITALIAN HERITAGE SPEAKERS IN GERMANY WITH L3 ENGLISH	8
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN L2 LITERACY ACQUISITION	8
SELLING THE (WORD) FAMILY SILVER?	8
Variability as a functional marker of second language development in older adult learners	8
LONGITUDINAL L2 DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROSODIC MARKING OF PRAGMATIC MEANING	8
The role of cognitive factors in second language writing and writing to learn a second language	7
EXPLORING SYNTACTIC PRIMING AS A MEASURE OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE	7
Comparing the longitudinal development of phraseological complexity across oral and written tasks	7
WORD FAMILIES AND LEMMAS, NOT A REAL DILEMMA	7
Foreign language learning boredom: Refining its measurement and determining its role in language learning	7
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING REVISITED	7
PROBING THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF LLAMA_D AS A MEASURE OF IMPLICIT LEARNING APTITUDE	7
Understanding L2-derived words in context: Is complete receptive morphological knowledge necessary?	6
Evaluating evidence for the reliability and validity of lexical diversity indices in L2 oral task responses	6
Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail	6
WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND L2 READING	6
THE SPECIFICITY OF EVENT EXPRESSION IN FIRST LANGUAGE INFLUENCES EXPRESSION OF OBJECT PLACEMENT EVENTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE	6
The complexity epistemology and ontology in second language acquisition: A critical review	6

INVESTIGATING TEXTUAL ENHANCEMENT AND CAPTIONS IN L2 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY	6
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement? – CORRIGENDUM	6
“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context	6
SOURCES OF VARIATION IN SECOND AND NATIVE LANGUAGE SPEAKING PROFICIENCY AMONG COLLEGE-AGED SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS	6
THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE USE OF LEXICAL UNITS	6
The elusive impact of L2 immersion on translation priming	6
When and how to use confirmatory composite analysis (CCA) in second language research	5
Second language productive knowledge of collocations: Does knowledge of individual words matter?	5
ACQUIRING L2 PRONOUN INTERPRETATION BIASES	5
Variability and individual differences in L2 sociolinguistic evaluations: The GROUP, the INDIVIDUAL and the HOMOGENEOUS ENSEMBLE	5
PRIMING DATIVE CLITICS IN SPOKEN SPANISH AS A SECOND AND HERITAGE LANGUAGE	5
EXAMINING THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARKEDNESS TO THE L2 PROCESSING OF SPANISH PERSON AGREEMENT	5
Motivational dispositions predict qualitative differences in oral task performance	5
The validation crisis in the L2 motivational self system tradition	4
ARE MIGRANT STUDENTS CLOSING THE GAP?	4
PROSODIC PATTERNS IN SYLHETI-ENGLISH BILINGUALS	4
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN HOW LANGUAGE LEARNERS PURSUE GOALS	4
Scrutinizing LLAMA D as a measure of implicit learning aptitude	4
A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency	4
The prediction from MLAT to L2 achievement is largely due to MLAT assessment of underlying L1 abilities	4
DISCRIMINABILITY AND PROTOTYPICALITY OF NONNATIVE VOWELS	4
THE IMPACT OF ORTHOGRAPHY ON LEXICAL ACCESS	4
Revisiting the moderating effect of speaker proficiency on the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish	4
EFFECTS OF LEARNING DIRECTION IN RETRIEVAL PRACTICE ON EFL VOCABULARY LEARNING	4
P-CURVING AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINSTP-HACKING IN SLA RESEARCH	4
REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF OVERTLY IDENTICAL COMPLEX FORMS IN L1 AND L2	4
EXPLORING AN ELICITED IMITATION TASK AS A MEASURE OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY	4
Individual differences in the acquisition of language-specific and dialect-specific allophones of intervocalic /d/ by L2 and heritage Spanish speakers studying abroad in Sevilla	4
Individual differences in L2 listening proficiency revisited: Roles of form, meaning, and use aspects of phonological vocabulary knowledge	4
A CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE PERCEPTION OF EMOTIONAL INTONATION	4
L2 LEARNERS’ ADAPTATION TO AN L2 STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM L1	4
Development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations: The roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice condition	4
Automated assessment of second language comprehensibility: Review, training, validation, and generalization studies	4
The relationship between social network typology, L2 proficiency growth, and curriculum design in university study abroad	3
PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF STRESS BY NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS LEARNING SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE	3
LEARNING CONDITION, LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY, AND FIRST LANGUAGE TRANSFER IN SEMIARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE LEARNING	3
The processing advantage of multiword sequences: A meta-analysis	3
SELECTING LEXICAL UNITS IN WORDLISTS FOR EFL LEARNERS	3
Exploring the relationship of working memory to the temporal distribution of pausing and revision behaviors during L2 writing	3
The congruency effect in L2 collocational processing: The underlying mechanism and moderating factors	3
Learning words with unfamiliar orthography: The role of cognitive abilities	3
Explicit Instruction within a Task: Before, During, or After?	3
Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills	3
ON COMPLEXITY AND DIVERGENCE IN HERITAGE LANGUAGE GRAMMARS	3
Spanish heritage language learners’ motivational profile in the postsecondary classroom: Insights from psychological network modeling	3
Perceptual integrality of foreign segmental and tonal information: Dimensional transfer hypothesis	3
Linguistic dissimilarity increases age-related decline in adult language learning	3
REGULATORY FIT EFFECTS ON THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL STRESS	3
Examining the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for comprehension: An eye-tracking study	3
Co-text, context, and listening proficiency as crucial variables in intelligibility among nonnative users of English	2
COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING: A SCOPING REVIEW OF 25 YEARS OF RESEARCH – CORRIGENDUM	2
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF /S/-WEAKENING IN A STUDY ABROAD CONTEXT	2
The effects of proficiency level and dual-task condition on L2 self-monitoring behavior	2
Exploring working memory and language dominance in heritage bilinguals’ writing processes	2
Text recall and use of advance organisers in first and second language	2
Estimating reliability for response-time difference measures: Toward a standardized, model-based approach	2
WHY IS THE COMPONENTIAL CONSTRUCT OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE SO DIFFICULT TO CAPTURE?	2
Variability in heritage and second language writers’ linguistic complexity: Roles of proficiency and motivational beliefs	2
LEXICAL COMPETENCE UNDERLYING SECOND LANGUAGE WORD ASSOCIATION TASKS	2
WORDS THAT MATTER IN L2 RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGY	2
COMBINING EXPLICIT AND SENSITIVE INDICES FOR MEASURING L2 VOCABULARY LEARNING THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZED INPUT AND WORD-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION	2
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY: NEW INSIGHTS FROM A COMPARISON OF TWO L2 ENGLISH PARALLEL FORMS – ADDENDUM	2
Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study	2
CLASSROOM LEARNERS’ ACQUISITION OF THE SPANISH COPULA WITH ADJECTIVES	2
Meta-analysis of second language research with complex research designs	2
The relationship between poststimulus pause, learner proficiency, and working memory in an Elicited Imitation Task	2
Working memory, L2 proficiency, and task complexity: Independent and interactive effects on L2 written performance	2
Introduction to the special issue on working memory and L2 writing: Implications for SLA individual differences research	2
DO L1-L2 DIFFERENCES IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING REFLECT PROCESSING DEMANDS OR DIFFICULTY OF FORM-FUNCTION MAPPING?	2
Cognitive individual differences in the process and product of L2 writing	2