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Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Second Language Acquisition is 6. 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
The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency	29
Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus	29
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF SINGLE WORDS AND COLLOCATIONS THROUGH VIEWING AN ACADEMIC LECTURE	28
INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS FROM MEANINGFUL INPUT	24
EXAMINING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE	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
THE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF PROCEDURAL MEMORY ASSESSMENTS USED IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH	17
FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL L2 LEARNING	17
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY	16
INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS PLUS	16
WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING	16
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research	16
Scale quality in second-language anxiety and WTC: A methodological synthesis	15

ARE REPLICATION STUDIES INFREQUENT BECAUSE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES?	15
LEARNING ENGLISH IN TODAY’S GLOBAL WORLD	14
DOING L2 SPEECH RESEARCH ONLINE: WHY AND HOW TO COLLECT ONLINE RATINGS DATA	14
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
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION AND PROFICIENCY	13
THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE TIMING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK	12
Variability in native and nonnative language: An ERP study of semantic and grammar processing	12
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
BEYOND LINGUISTIC FEATURES	11
Working memory and second language writing: A systematic review	11
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
CONCEPTUALIZING L2 VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE	10
EMOTION-LADEN TEXTS AND WORDS	10
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
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
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
LEMMAS, FLEMMAS, WORD FAMILIES, AND COMMON SENSE	8
VOICE ONSET TIME IN MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS: ITALIAN HERITAGE SPEAKERS IN GERMANY WITH L3 ENGLISH	8
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
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
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
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