Studies in Second Language Acquisition

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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
On the effects of task focus and processing level on the perception–production link in second-language speech learning155
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Challenges in inflected word processing for L2 speakers75
Estimating reliability for response-time difference measures: Toward a standardized, model-based approach71
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations60
Development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations: The roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice condition45
Comparing the longitudinal development of phraseological complexity across oral and written tasks44
GROWTH, FIXED, AND MIXED MINDSETS41
Validity evidence for an EIT as an assessment for Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners39
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – CORRIGENDUM38
Mind the gap: Psycholinguistic and individual factors affecting expressive and receptive vocabulary skills in English-Gaelic bilingual children33
Co-text, context, and listening proficiency as crucial variables in intelligibility among nonnative users of English – ERRATUM31
Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: A conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020)30
EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH28
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING REVISITED28
Pretesting effects on incidental L2 vocabulary learning through reading25
EXPLORING CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN GENDER MARKING IN SPANISH25
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction25
MASSED TASK REPETITION IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT25
Examining the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for comprehension: An eye-tracking study24
SLA volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Back matter23
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction – CORRIGENDUM23
The relationship between boredom and second language achievement: A multilevel meta-analysis22
Cross-language interactions of phonetic and phonological processes20
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction20
Contextual learning and retention of phrasal verbs20
Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills20
Disentangling the causal role of motivation, enjoyment, and anxiety in second language speech learning: A final report19
Motivational dispositions predict qualitative differences in oral task performance19
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Back matter18
The additive use of prosody and morphosyntax in L2 German18
Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research17
The interplay of mindsets, aptitude, grit, and language achievement: What role does gender play?17
REGULATORY FIT EFFECTS ON THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL STRESS17
Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus16
THE LEMMA DILEMMA16
Differential effects of identification and discrimination training tasks on L2 vowel identification and discrimination15
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)15
PROSODIC PATTERNS IN SYLHETI-ENGLISH BILINGUALS – ADDENDUM15
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN L2 LITERACY ACQUISITION14
Development of verb argument constructions in L2 English learners: A close replication of research question 3 in Römer and Berger (2019)14
The effects of distributed practice on second language fluency development13
Study and instrument quality in perception-based L2 pronunciation research13
THE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF PROCEDURAL MEMORY ASSESSMENTS USED IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH13
ADVANCING THE STATE OF THE ART IN L2 SPEECH PERCEPTION-PRODUCTION RESEARCH: REVISITING THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICES13
Variability as a functional marker of second language development in older adult learners12
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY12
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016)12
SLA volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back matter11
Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons11
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A longitudinal investigation of the effects of language instruction versus immersion on cognitive functions in young adult Chinese speakers learning English11
VOICE ONSET TIME IN MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS: ITALIAN HERITAGE SPEAKERS IN GERMANY WITH L3 ENGLISH11
IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE CONSTRUCT, VALIDATING THE MEASURES, AND EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE11
Reevaluating trials to criterion as a measure in second language research10
Sense-aware connective-based indices of cohesion and their relationship to cohesion ratings of English language learners’ written production10
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study10
SLA volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Back matter10
How to present L2 Chinese words effectively for learning: Exploring learning outcomes and learner perceptions10
How well are primary and secondary meanings of L2 words acquired?10
Text recall and use of advance organisers in first and second language10
LONGITUDINAL L2 DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROSODIC MARKING OF PRAGMATIC MEANING10
Affect as a component of second language speech perception9
Acceptance and engagement patterns of mobile-assisted language learning among non-conventional adult L2 learners: A survival analysis9
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children – ADDENDUM9
Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach9
Task-generated processes in second language speech production: Exploring the neural correlates of task complexity during silent pauses9
Longitudinal development of second language utterance fluency, cognitive fluency, and their relationship8
Introduction to the special issue on working memory and L2 writing: Implications for SLA individual differences research8
SLA volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter8
The effects of proficiency level and dual-task condition on L2 self-monitoring behavior8
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading8
Do they like me?7
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EFFECT SIZE–DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES7
Second language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts7
The 2024 Albert Valdman Award7
L2 PROCESSING OF LINGUISTIC AND NONLINGUISTIC INFORMATION7
Manufactured crisis7
Multilingualism and native speakerism in academic journals’ language policies: Exploring a potential power of applied linguistics journals in promoting equitable publishing practices6
PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF STRESS BY NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS LEARNING SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE6
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – CORRIGENDUM – RETRACTION6
Individual differences in L2 listening proficiency revisited: Roles of form, meaning, and use aspects of phonological vocabulary knowledge6
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading – ERRATUM6
PROSODIC PATTERNS IN SYLHETI-ENGLISH BILINGUALS6
Predicting L2-Spanish fluency from L1-English fluency and L2 proficiency: A conceptual replication6
Meta-analysis of second language research with complex research designs6
The interpretation of verbal moods in Spanish: A close replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014)6
Kimberly Geeslin, In Memoriam6
The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency6
QUANTIFYING THE DIFFERENCE IN READING FLUENCY BETWEEN L1 AND L2 READERS OF ENGLISH6
DOUBLE-NUMBER MARKING MATTERS FOR BOTH L1 AND L2 PROCESSING OF NONLOCAL AGREEMENT SIMILARLY6
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SLA volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Back matter5
EPILOGUE5
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“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context5
Do verbal and nonverbal declarative memory tasks in second language research measure the same abilities?5
WHY IS THE COMPONENTIAL CONSTRUCT OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE SO DIFFICULT TO CAPTURE?5
The 2022 Albert Valdman Award5
SLA volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Front matter5
PREDICTION AND ERROR-BASED LEARNING IN L2 PROCESSING AND ACQUISITION5
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE-LINGUISTIC TASK DIFFICULTY AND L1-L2 INTERACTION FOR ACADEMIC LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN TURKISH–DUTCH EMERGENT BILINGUALS4
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement? – CORRIGENDUM4
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research4
SLA volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study4
Spanish heritage language learners’ motivational profile in the postsecondary classroom: Insights from psychological network modeling4
Foreign language learning boredom: Refining its measurement and determining its role in language learning4
Learning without awareness revisited and reconsidered4
The effects of interleaved and blocked corpus-based practice on L2 pragmatic development4
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children4
SLA volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Back matter4
Cognitive individual differences in the process and product of L2 writing4
A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency4
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016) – ERRATUM4
Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail4
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Processing to learn noncanonical word orders: Exploring linguistic and cognitive predictors of reanalysis in early L2 sentence comprehension3
Inhibitory and facilitative effects of lexical neighbors in spoken word recognition: The role of language experience3
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L2 GRIT3
Task design, L1 literacy, and second language oracy3
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SELLING THE (WORD) FAMILY SILVER?3
First language effects on incidental vocabulary learning through bimodal input3
L2 LEARNERS’ ADAPTATION TO AN L2 STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM L13
Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency3
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction – CORRIGENDUM3
SLA volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
ELICITED IMITATION TASKS AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY3
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The impact of collocational proficiency features on expert ratings of L2 English learners’ writing3
EXAMINING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE3
Meta-analysis of second language research with complex research designs – ADDENDUM3
Wh-Dependency Processing in a Naturalistic Exposure Context: Sensitivity to Abstract Syntactic Structure in High-Working-Memory L2 Speakers3
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS FROM MEANINGFUL INPUT2
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – RETRACTED2
Language proficiency modulates L2 orthographic learning mechanism: Evidence from event-related brain potentials in overt naming2
VISUAL CUES AND RATER PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBILITY, ACCENTEDNESS, AND FLUENCY2
Understanding L2-derived words in context: Is complete receptive morphological knowledge necessary?2
Second language anxiety in conversation and its relationship with speakers’ perceptions of the interaction and their social networks2
Perceptual integrality of foreign segmental and tonal information: Dimensional transfer hypothesis2
WORD FAMILIES AND LEMMAS, NOT A REAL DILEMMA2
Modulating motion event categorization through brief training: Meaning-focused versus form-focused instructional conditions2
The relationship between poststimulus pause, learner proficiency, and working memory in an Elicited Imitation Task2
Announcing the 2024 Susan Gass Award for Impact in SLA2
Different variables hold varying significance from childhood to adolescence2
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement?2
Optimizing the input for learning of L2-specific constructions: The roles of Zipfian and balanced input, explicit rules and working memory2
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Structural priming facilitates L2 learning of the dative alternation in Mandarin2
Individual differences in the acquisition of language-specific and dialect-specific allophones of intervocalic /d/ by L2 and heritage Spanish speakers studying abroad in Sevilla2
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Exploring the relationship of working memory to the temporal distribution of pausing and revision behaviors during L2 writing2
The validation crisis in the L2 motivational self system tradition2
Revisiting the moderating effect of speaker proficiency on the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish2
Reexamining the role of regulatory focus in second language achievement2
Linguistic dissimilarity increases age-related decline in adult language learning2
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