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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A CLOSER LOOK AT GRIT AND LANGUAGE MINDSET AS PREDICTORS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT	89
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement?	58
BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS, MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATIONS, EFFORT, AND VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	42
EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH	38
THE ASPECT HYPOTHESIS AND THE ACQUISITION OF L2 PAST MORPHOLOGY IN THE LAST 20 YEARS	37
LIMITATIONS OF SIZE AND LEVELS TESTS OF WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	36
THE EFFECT OF LEARNER CHOICE ON L2 TASK ENGAGEMENT	36
HOW DOES MODE OF INPUT AFFECT THE INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS?	29
COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING	28
GROWTH, FIXED, AND MIXED MINDSETS	27
ELICITED IMITATION TASKS AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	26
EXAMINING ADOLESCENT EFL LEARNERS’ TV VIEWING COMPREHENSION THROUGH CAPTIONS AND SUBTITLES	26
YOUNG LEARNERS’ PROCESSING OF MULTIMODAL INPUT AND ITS IMPACT ON READING COMPREHENSION	25
PROMOTING GRAMMATICAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH CAPTIONS AND TEXTUAL ENHANCEMENT IN MULTIMODAL INPUT-BASED TASKS	23
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF IMPLICIT-STATISTICAL LEARNING APTITUDE TO IMPLICIT SECOND-LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE	22
Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach	21
THE EFFECTS OF IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON L2 DEVELOPMENT	21
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF SINGLE WORDS AND COLLOCATIONS THROUGH VIEWING AN ACADEMIC LECTURE	21
MEASURING LONGITUDINAL WRITING DEVELOPMENT USING INDICES OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY AND SOPHISTICATION	20
INCIDENTAL ACQUISITION OF MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS THROUGH AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS	20
The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency	19
CAN CAPTIONED VIDEO BENEFIT SECOND LANGUAGE PRONUNCIATION?	19
EXAMINING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE	19
PREDICTING L2 FLUENCY FROM L1 FLUENCY BEHAVIOR	19
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT PRONUNCIATION INSTRUCTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF L2 PRONUNCIATION	19

Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus	18
THE LEMMA DILEMMA	18
EVEN IN THE BEST-CASE SCENARIO L2 LEARNERS HAVE PERSISTENT DIFFICULTY PERCEIVING AND UTILIZING TONES IN MANDARIN	17
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS FROM MEANINGFUL INPUT	16
L2 GRIT	16
INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS PLUS	15
INITIAL PROFICIENCY AND L2 GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT DURING SHORT-TERM IMMERSION ABROAD	15
DOES IT MATTER WHEN YOU REVIEW?	15
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE	14
WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING	13
FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL L2 LEARNING	13
A CALL FOR CAUTIOUS INTERPRETATION OF META-ANALYTIC REVIEWS	13
WHICH FACTORS DETERMINE THE CHOICE OF REFERENTIAL EXPRESSIONS IN L2 ENGLISH DISCOURSE?	12
SAMPLE SIZE PLANNING IN QUANTITATIVE L2 RESEARCH	12
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	12
EFFECT SIZE–DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES	12
ARE REPLICATION STUDIES INFREQUENT BECAUSE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES?	11
MAPPING RESEARCH ON L2 PRONUNCIATION	11
OBSERVING AND PRODUCING DURATIONAL HAND GESTURES FACILITATES THE PRONUNCIATION OF NOVEL VOWEL-LENGTH CONTRASTS	11
ADVANCING THE STATE OF THE ART IN L2 SPEECH PERCEPTION-PRODUCTION RESEARCH: REVISITING THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICES	11
DO LEARNERS CONNECT SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION WITH REGIONAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS?	11
ON THE SCOPE OF OUTPUT IN SLA	11
THE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF PROCEDURAL MEMORY ASSESSMENTS USED IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH	10
ORAL LANGUAGE PROFILES OF ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN ADOLESCENCE	10
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION AND PROFICIENCY	10
PREDICTIVE PROCESSING OF IMPLICIT CAUSALITY IN A SECOND LANGUAGE	10
QUANTIFYING THE DIFFERENCE IN READING FLUENCY BETWEEN L1 AND L2 READERS OF ENGLISH	9
USING PROSODY TO PREDICT UPCOMING REFERENTS IN THE L1 AND THE L2	9
VISUAL CUES AND RATER PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBILITY, ACCENTEDNESS, AND FLUENCY	9
MULTIMODAL INPUT IN SLA RESEARCH	9
ELICITED IMITATION: A TEST FOR ALL LEARNERS?	9
MASSED TASK REPETITION IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT	9
Variability in native and nonnative language: An ERP study of semantic and grammar processing	9
INTERRATER RELIABILITY IN SECOND LANGUAGE META-ANALYSES	9
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE LIMITATIONS OF SIZE AND LEVELS TESTS OF WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	9
DOING L2 SPEECH RESEARCH ONLINE: WHY AND HOW TO COLLECT ONLINE RATINGS DATA	9
BEYOND LINGUISTIC FEATURES	9
INTEGRATION OF VERBAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL INFORMATION IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF ENGLISH DATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS	8
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL PHONOLOGICAL FEATURE DURING A SEMESTER ABROAD IN ARGENTINA	8
LEARNING ENGLISH IN TODAY’S GLOBAL WORLD	8
IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE CONSTRUCT, VALIDATING THE MEASURES, AND EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE	8
THOUGHTS ON WORD FAMILIES	8
THE EFFECTS OF TALKER VARIABILITY AND FREQUENCY OF EXPOSURE ON THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN WORD KNOWLEDGE	8
LEMMAS, FLEMMAS, WORD FAMILIES, AND COMMON SENSE	8
A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT AUDITORY PROCESSING IN L2 SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL ACQUISITION	8
MEASUREMENT PROPERTIES OF A STANDARDIZED ELICITED IMITATION TEST: AN INTEGRATIVE DATA ANALYSIS	8
LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN’S HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNING	7
A longitudinal study into learners’ productive collocation knowledge in L2 German and factors affecting the learning	7
PREDICTION AND ERROR-BASED LEARNING IN L2 PROCESSING AND ACQUISITION	7
WORD FAMILIES AND LEMMAS, NOT A REAL DILEMMA	7

EFFECTS OF MULTITALKER INPUT AND INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD ON THE DIMENSION-BASED STATISTICAL LEARNING OF SYLLABLE-TONE COMBINATIONS	7
CONCEPTUALIZING L2 VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	7
SELLING THE (WORD) FAMILY SILVER?	7
THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE TIMING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK	7
DOMAIN-GENERAL AUDITORY PROCESSING EXPLAINS MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF L2 ACQUISITION IN ADULTHOOD	7
Scale quality in second-language anxiety and WTC: A methodological synthesis	6
EMOTION-LADEN TEXTS AND WORDS	6
PROBING THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF LLAMA_D AS A MEASURE OF IMPLICIT LEARNING APTITUDE	6
PARSING AMBIGUOUS RELATIVE CLAUSES IN L2 ENGLISH	6
LONGITUDINAL L2 DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROSODIC MARKING OF PRAGMATIC MEANING	6
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research	6
IMPLICITNESS AND EXPLICITNESS IN COGNITIVE ABILITIES AND CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK	6
THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE USE OF LEXICAL UNITS	6
VOICE ONSET TIME IN MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS: ITALIAN HERITAGE SPEAKERS IN GERMANY WITH L3 ENGLISH	6
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement? – CORRIGENDUM	6
WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND L2 READING	5
EXPLORING SYNTACTIC PRIMING AS A MEASURE OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE	5
FILLED PAUSES ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CROSS-LANGUAGE PHONETIC INFLUENCE	5
THE SPECIFICITY OF EVENT EXPRESSION IN FIRST LANGUAGE INFLUENCES EXPRESSION OF OBJECT PLACEMENT EVENTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE	5
YOUNG LEARNERS’ PROCESSING OF MULTIMODAL INPUT AND ITS IMPACT ON READING COMPREHENSION: AN EYE-TRACKING STUDY – CORRIGENDUM	5
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study	5
A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency	5
SECOND LANGUAGE USERS EXHIBIT SHALLOW MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING	5
SOURCES OF VARIATION IN SECOND AND NATIVE LANGUAGE SPEAKING PROFICIENCY AMONG COLLEGE-AGED SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS	5
The elusive impact of L2 immersion on translation priming	5
INVESTIGATING TEXTUAL ENHANCEMENT AND CAPTIONS IN L2 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY	5
EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF PHONETIC SYMBOLS AND KEYWORDS AS LABELS FOR PERCEPTUAL TRAINING	5
INTRODUCING THE SSLA METHODS FORUM	5
“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context	4
Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail	4
Construction and validation of a questionnaire to study engagement in informal second language learning	4
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN L2 LITERACY ACQUISITION	4
REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF OVERTLY IDENTICAL COMPLEX FORMS IN L1 AND L2	4
Automated assessment of second language comprehensibility: Review, training, validation, and generalization studies	4
ACQUIRING L2 PRONOUN INTERPRETATION BIASES	4
The role of cognitive factors in second language writing and writing to learn a second language	4
PRIMING DATIVE CLITICS IN SPOKEN SPANISH AS A SECOND AND HERITAGE LANGUAGE	4
Comparing the longitudinal development of phraseological complexity across oral and written tasks	4
Revisiting the moderating effect of speaker proficiency on the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish	3
Evaluating evidence for the reliability and validity of lexical diversity indices in L2 oral task responses	3
ON COMPLEXITY AND DIVERGENCE IN HERITAGE LANGUAGE GRAMMARS	3
EFFECTS OF LEARNING DIRECTION IN RETRIEVAL PRACTICE ON EFL VOCABULARY LEARNING	3
P-CURVING AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST P-HACKING IN SLA RESEARCH	3
Variability as a functional marker of second language development in older adult learners	3
THE IMPACT OF ORTHOGRAPHY ON LEXICAL ACCESS	3
Working memory and second language writing: A systematic review	3
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN HOW LANGUAGE LEARNERS PURSUE GOALS	3
A CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE PERCEPTION OF EMOTIONAL INTONATION	3
A NEW TYPE OF MASKED FORM PRIMING	3
Effects of distributed practice on the acquisition of verb-noun collocations	3
EXPLORING AN ELICITED IMITATION TASK AS A MEASURE OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY	3
COMPREHENSION OF FOCUS-TO-ACCENTUATION MAPPING IN SENTENCES WITH ONLY BY ADVANCED CANTONESE LEARNERS AND DUTCH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH	3
DISCRIMINABILITY AND PROTOTYPICALITY OF NONNATIVE VOWELS	3
PROSODIC PATTERNS IN SYLHETI-ENGLISH BILINGUALS	3
REGULATORY FIT EFFECTS ON THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL STRESS	3
EXAMINING THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARKEDNESS TO THE L2 PROCESSING OF SPANISH PERSON AGREEMENT	3
Scrutinizing LLAMA D as a measure of implicit learning aptitude	3
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING REVISITED	3
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	3
Understanding L2-derived words in context: Is complete receptive morphological knowledge necessary?	3
CLASSROOM LEARNERS’ ACQUISITION OF THE SPANISH COPULA WITH ADJECTIVES	2
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF /S/-WEAKENING IN A STUDY ABROAD CONTEXT	2
PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF STRESS BY NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS LEARNING SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE	2
SELECTING LEXICAL UNITS IN WORDLISTS FOR EFL LEARNERS	2
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY: NEW INSIGHTS FROM A COMPARISON OF TWO L2 ENGLISH PARALLEL FORMS – ADDENDUM	2
The prediction from MLAT to L2 achievement is largely due to MLAT assessment of underlying L1 abilities	2
Co-text, context, and listening proficiency as crucial variables in intelligibility among nonnative users of English	2
LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION AS L2 SHADOW BOXING	2
LEARNING CONDITION, LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY, AND FIRST LANGUAGE TRANSFER IN SEMIARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE LEARNING	2
WORDS THAT MATTER IN L2 RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGY	2
Second language productive knowledge of collocations: Does knowledge of individual words matter?	2
Text recall and use of advance organisers in first and second language	2
Development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations: The roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice condition	2
Perceptual integrality of foreign segmental and tonal information: Dimensional transfer hypothesis	2
Learning words with unfamiliar orthography: The role of cognitive abilities	2
Linguistic dissimilarity increases age-related decline in adult language learning	2
Variability and individual differences in L2 sociolinguistic evaluations: The GROUP, the INDIVIDUAL and the HOMOGENEOUS ENSEMBLE	2
EXPLORING THE VERIDICALITY AND REACTIVITY OF SUBJECTIVE MEASURES OF AWARENESS	2
DO L1-L2 DIFFERENCES IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING REFLECT PROCESSING DEMANDS OR DIFFICULTY OF FORM-FUNCTION MAPPING?	2
The relationship between social network typology, L2 proficiency growth, and curriculum design in university study abroad	2