System

Papers
(The median citation count of System 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.)
ArticleCitations
Language teachers’ coping strategies during the Covid-19 conversion to online teaching: Correlations with stress, wellbeing and negative emotions396
Emotion regulation and psychological well-being in teacher work engagement: A case of British and Iranian English language teachers184
Remote teaching during COVID-19: Implications from a national survey of language educators169
Boredom in online classes in the Iranian EFL context: Sources and solutions140
College students’ writing self-efficacy and writing self-regulated learning strategies in learning English as a foreign language107
Investigating factors responsible for boredom in English classes: The case of advanced learners79
Learner engagement with automated feedback, peer feedback and teacher feedback in an online EFL writing context67
Do well-being and resilience predict the Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment of teachers of Italian?65
The predictive effects of classroom environment and trait emotional intelligence on Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety63
Teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism in a course on translanguaging56
Bringing the outside in: Connecting students’ out-of-school knowledge and experience through translanguaging in Hong Kong English Medium Instruction mathematics classes56
Modeling the contribution of resilience, well-being, and L2 grit to foreign language teaching enjoyment among Iranian English language teachers54
Trait emotional intelligence, positive and negative emotions in first and foreign language classes: A mixed-methods approach50
Implementing pedagogical translanguaging in trilingual schools49
Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context48
Exploring EFL teacher resilience in the Chinese context48
A mixed-methods cross-cultural study of teacher care and teacher-student rapport in Iranian and Polish University students’ engagement in pursuing academic goals in an L2 context48
Pedagogical translanguaging: An introduction47
Predictors of English Medium Instruction academic success: English proficiency versus first language medium46
Exploring “Flow” in young Chinese EFL learners’ online English learning activities45
The antecedents of boredom in L2 classroom learning44
Hong Kong secondary students’ self-regulated learning strategy use and English writing: Influences of motivational beliefs43
Understanding English teachers’ non-volitional use of online teaching: A Chinese study42
Developing literacy or focusing on interaction: New Zealand students’ strategic efforts related to Chinese language learning during study abroad in China40
Translanguaging pedagogy in teaching English for Academic Purposes: Researcher-teacher collaboration as a professional development model39
Pedagogical translanguaging in a multilingual English program in Canada: Student and teacher perspectives of challenges39
Language learners’ enjoyment and emotion regulation in online collaborative learning38
The roles of class social climate, language mindset, and emotions in predicting willingness to communicate in a foreign language38
Ideal L2 self and willingness to communicate: A moderated mediation model of shyness and grit36
Incidental L2 vocabulary learning from viewing captioned videos: Effects of learner-related factors36
Why stories matter: Exploring learner engagement and metacognition through narratives of the L2 learning experience36
Learning Chinese as a second language in China: Positive emotions and enjoyment35
Language teacher agency in emergency online teaching35
A latent profile analysis of EFL learners’ self-efficacy: Associations with academic emotions and language proficiency35
The interaction patterns of pandemic-initiated online teaching: How teachers adapted34
Effect of interaction strategy instruction on learner engagement in peer interaction34
The impact of a professional development program on EFL teachers’ beliefs about corrective feedback33
Synchronous online teaching, a blessing or a curse? Insights from EFL primary students’ interaction during online English lessons33
Doing expertise multilingually and multimodally in online English teaching videos32
Teaching and learning languages online: Challenges and responses32
Classroom interaction in EMI high schools: Do teachers who are native speakers of English make a difference?32
Research on learning and teaching of languages other than English in System31
High school to university transitional challenges in English medium instruction in Japan31
Second language writing instructors’ feedback practice in response to automated writing evaluation: A sociocultural perspective31
Developing awareness of Global Englishes: Moving away from ‘native standards’ for Thai university ELT30
Relationship between self-efficacy and language proficiency: A meta-analysis30
Reducing anxiety in the foreign language classroom: A positive psychology approach29
Students’ academic language-related challenges in English Medium Instruction: The role of English proficiency and language gain29
Studying Chinese language in higher education: The translanguaging reality through learners’ eyes29
Multimodal pedagogy in TESOL teacher education: Students’ perspectives28
The predictive power of sociobiographical and language variables on foreign language anxiety of Chinese university students27
Models of EMI pedagogies: At the interface of language use and interaction27
Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-1927
Effects of ASR-based websites on EFL learners’ vocabulary, speaking anxiety, and language enjoyment26
Pushing the edge in narrative inquiry26
Regulated learning and self-efficacy beliefs in peer collaborative writing: An exploratory study of L2 learners’ written products, task discussions, and self-reports26
Chinese character instruction online: A technology acceptance perspective in emergency remote teaching25
Grit and motivation for learning English among Japanese university students25
Addressing the challenges of interaction in online language courses25
Learning L2 constructions from captioned audio-visual exposure: The effect of learner-related factors25
Book review24
Interactive-whiteboard-technology-supported collaborative writing: Writing achievement, metacognitive activities, and co-regulation patterns24
Digital competence and online language teaching: Hong Kong language teacher practices in primary and secondary classrooms24
The role of emotion labor in English language teacher identity construction: An activity theory perspective24
Implementing Assessment for Learning (AfL) in Chinese university EFL classes: Teachers’ values and practices24
Exploring the relationship between foreign language motivation and achievement among primary school students learning English in China24
Foreign language anxiety and translanguaging as an emotional safe space: Migrant English as a foreign language learners in Australia23
Understanding English language learning in tertiary English-medium instruction contexts in China23
Exploring young learners’ engagement with models as a written corrective technique in EFL and CLIL settings23
Methodological orientations, academic citations, and scientific collaboration in applied linguistics: What do research synthesis and bibliometrics indicate?22
Exploring the self-efficacy beliefs of Vietnamese pre-service teachers of English as a foreign language22
When language teacher emotions and language policy intersect: A critical perspective22
Interactive e-book reading vs. paper-based reading: Comparing the effects of different mediums on middle school students’ reading comprehension22
Motivational profiles and learning experience across Chinese language proficiency levels22
Investigating language learners’ emotion-regulation strategies with the help of the vignette methodology21
What linguistic features distinguish and predict L2 writing quality? A study of examination scripts written by adolescent Chinese learners of English in Hong Kong21
Vocabulary in high-school EFL textbooks: Texts and learner knowledge21
Investigating the link between engagement, readiness, and satisfaction in a synchronous online second language learning environment20
From English as the medium to English as a medium: Perspectives of EMI students in Qatar20
A framework for positioning analysis: From identifying to analyzing (pre)positions in narrated story lines20
Investigating the impact of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on EMI academic success20
Young EFL learners and collaborative writing: A study on patterns of interaction, engagement in LREs, and task motivation20
Self-regulated listening of students at transition from high school to an English medium instruction (EMI) transnational university in China20
Translanguaging in Conjunction with language revitalization19
Syntactic complexity in assessing young adolescent EFL learners’ writings: Syntactic elaboration and diversity19
Opening minds to translanguaging pedagogies19
Measuring Chinese junior high school students' language mindsets: What can we learn from young EFL learners’ beliefs in their language ability?19
A review of recent research in EFL motivation: Research trends, emerging methodologies, and diversity of researched populations19
Using model texts as a form of feedback in L2 writing19
Effects of teacher’s personality traits on EFL learners’ foreign language enjoyment18
‘You just appreciate every little kindness’: Chinese language teachers’ wellbeing in the UK18
A diachronic analysis of explicit definitions and implicit conceptualizations of language learning strategies18
Having a single language interest autonomously predicts L2 achievement: Addressing the predictive validity of L2 grit18
Explaining individual differences in young English language learners’ vocabulary knowledge: The role of Extramural English Exposure and motivation18
Critical language teacher education: A duoethnography of teacher educators’ identities and agency17
Types of social media activities and Hong Kong South and Southeast Asians Youth’s Chinese language learning motivation17
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers16
The effect of highly focused versus mid-focused written corrective feedback on EFL learners’ explicit and implicit knowledge development16
Investigating the interrelationship between rated L2 proficiency and linguistic complexity in L2 speech16
An investigation into EFL learners’ motivational dynamics during a group communicative task: A classroom-based case study16
The emergence of boredom in an online language class: An ecological perspective16
Humour strategies in teaching Chinese as second language classrooms16
Profiles of motivation and engagement in foreign language learning: Associations with emotional factors, academic achievement, and demographic features16
Teachers in automated writing evaluation (AWE) system-supported ESL writing classes: Perception, implementation, and influence16
Comparing incidental vocabulary learning from reading-only and reading-while-listening16
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity16
Syntactic complexity of research article part-genres: Differences between emerging and expert international publication writers16
Effects of a xu-argument based iterative continuation task on an EFL learner’s linguistic and affective development: Evidence from errors, self-initiated error corrections, and foreign language learni16
A review of the methodological quality of quantitative mobile-assisted language learning research16
Parental support for young learners’ online learning of English in a Chinese primary school16
Research trends in ‘trans-’ studies on writing: A bibliometric analysis15
Motivational profiles of learners of multiple foreign languages: A self-determination theory perspective15
English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturer support needs in Japan and China15
Translanguaging/trans-semiotizing in teacher-learner interactions on social media: Making learner agency visible and achievable15
The impact of Google Translate on L2 writing quality measures: Evidence from Chilean EFL high school learners15
Pre-service language teacher wellbeing as a complex dynamic system15
Metacognitive strategy use in L2 writing assessment15
Does asking learners to revise add to the effect of written corrective feedback on L2 acquisition?15
A methodological review of qualitative research syntheses in CALL: The state-of-the-art15
Exploring the use of models as a written corrective feedback technique among EFL children15
Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) research trends and patterns through bibliometric analysis: Empowering language learners through ubiquitous educational technologies14
The effect of hands-on and hands-off data-driven learning on low-intermediate learners’ verb-preposition collocations14
Tibetan CSL learners’ L2 Motivational Self System and L2 achievement14
Can engaging L2 teachers as material designers contribute to their professional development? findings from Colombia14
The interconnection between second language teachers’ language assessment literacy and professional agency: The mediating role of institutional policies14
Towards crosslinguistic pedagogy: Demystifying pre-service teachers’ beliefs regarding the target-language-only rule14
Grit, emotions, and their effects on ethnic minority students’ English language learning achievements: A structural equation modelling analysis14
Rescuing “emotion labor” from (and for) language teacher emotion research14
The effects of in-class debates on argumentation skills in second language education14
Engagement in the foreign language classroom: Micro and macro perspectives14
Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts14
Learners' flow experience during peer revision in a virtual writing course during the global pandemic14
The impact of collaborative listening to podcasts on high school learners’ listening comprehension and vocabulary learning13
The development of receptive vocabulary in CLIL vs EFL: Is the learning context the main variable?13
“I'm a salesman and my client is China”: Language learning motivation, multicultural attitudes, and multilingualism among university students in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan13
Enhancing EFL vocabulary learning with multimodal cues supported by an educational robot and an IoT-Based 3D book13
Exploring the role of English proficiency, self-efficacy, and motivation in listening for learners transitioning to an English-medium transnational university in China13
“I took physical lessons for granted”: A case study exploring students’ interpersonal interactions in online synchronous lessons during the outbreak of COVID-1913
Innovating language curriculum design through design thinking: A case study of a blended learning course at a Colombian university13
Chinese ESL learners’ perceptual errors of English connected speech: Insights into listening comprehension13
Planning conditions (strategic planning, task repetition, and joint planning), cognitive task complexity, and task type: Effects on L2 oral performance13
Emotion and identity construction in teachers of young learners of English: An ecological perspective12
Predicting content proficiency through disciplinary-literacy variables in English-medium writing12
Examining whether learning outcomes are enhanced when L2 learners’ cognitive styles match listening instruction methods12
Epistemic agency, a double-stimulation, and video-based learning: A formative intervention study in language teacher education12
Comparing the merits of word writing and retrieval practice for L2 vocabulary learning12
Form and rhetorical function of phrase-frames in promotional writing: A corpus- and genre-based analysis12
Collage of confusion: An analysis of one university’s multiple plagiarism policies12
Interrelationships of motivation, self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategy use: An investigation into study abroad experiences12
When CLIL is for all: Improving learner motivation through peer-tutoring in Mathematics12
A systematic narrative review of International Posture: What is known and what still needs to be uncovered12
Unravelling students’ perceived EFL teacher support11
Communicative pronunciation teaching: Insights from the Vietnamese tertiary EFL classroom11
Foreign language enjoyment, ideal L2 self, and intercultural communicative competence as predictors of willingness to communicate among EFL learners11
The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools11
Why do you choose to teach Chinese as a second language? A study of pre-service CSL teachers’ motivations11
“We were told that the content we delivered was not as important:” disconnect and disparities in world language student teaching during COVID-1911
Looking into English-medium instruction teachers’ metadiscourse: An ELF perspective11
Navigating ethical challenges in second language narrative inquiry research11
Vocabulary size and depth as predictors of second language speaking ability11
Predicting L2 learners’ noticing of L2 errors: Proficiency, language analytical ability, and interaction mindset11
Student engagement with teacher written feedback: Insights from low-proficiency and high-proficiency L2 learners11
University graduates’ transition into the workplace: How they learn to use English for work and cope with language-related challenges10
The effect of task complexity on integrated writing performance: The case of multiple-text source-based writing10
The effect of self-regulated writing strategies on students’ L2 writing engagement and disengagement behaviors10
English for Da'wah? L2 motivation in Indonesian pesantren schools10
Why so nervous? Revisiting the sources of speech anxiety in Chinese as a second language10
Teacher agency in perceiving affordances and constraints of videoconferencing technology: Teaching primary school students online10
Enhancing the content- and language-integrated multiple literacies framework: Systemic functional linguistics for teaching regional diversity10
Brain changes associated with language development and learning: A primer on methodology and applications10
Uncovering the hidden face of narrative analysis: A reflexive perspective through MAXQDA10
Covid-19 as a critical incident: Reflection on language assessment literacy and the need for radical changes10
The effect of a digital game-based learning task on the acquisition of the English Article System10
The effect of input characteristics and individual differences on L2 comprehension of authentic and modified listening tasks10
Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective9
Stimulating learner engagement in app-based L2 vocabulary self-study: Goals and feedback for effective L2 pedagogy9
Examining differences between pre- and in-service teachers’ cognition when lesson planning9
Examining the potential of digital flashcards to facilitate independent grammar learning9
Influences of process-based instruction on students’ use of self-regulated learning strategies in EFL writing9
Aligning higher education language policies with lecturers’ views on EMI practices: A comparative study of ten European Universities9
The role of learner creativity in L2 semantic fluency. An exploratory study9
Experienced EFL teachers switching to online teaching: A case study from China9
How can EFL teachers make their questions more interactive with students? Interpersonal patterns of teacher questions9
Space in narrative inquiry on second language learning9
Homophones facilitate lexical development in a second language9
Effects of attention to segmental vs. suprasegmental features on the speech intelligibility and comprehensibility of the EFL learners targeting the perception or production-focused practice9
Combining computer-mediated communication with data-driven instruction: EFL learners’ pragmatic development of compliment responses9
Recurrent restorying through language teacher narrative inquiry9
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study8
Effects of n-grams on the rated L2 writing quality of expository essays: A conceptual replication and extension8
Considered in context: EFL teachers’ views on the classroom as a bilingual space and codeswitching in shared-L1 and in multilingual contexts8
Comparing L2 learners’ writing against parallel machine-translated texts: Raters’ assessment, linguistic complexity and errors8
Investigating the effects of cognitive linguistic approach in developing EFL learners’ pragmatic proficiency8
Mining opinions on LMOOCs: Sentiment and content analyses of Chinese students’ comments in discussion forums8
The role of mixed emotions in language learning and teaching: A positive psychology teacher intervention8
Preschool English teachers gaining bilingual competencies in a monolingual context8
Negotiation of emotions in emerging language teacher identity of graduate instructors8
Exploring first-year university students’ learning journals: Conceptions of second language self-concept and self-efficacy for academic writing8
The effect of spacing on incidental and deliberate learning of L2 collocations8
Exploring the intricate relationship between foreign language anxiety, attention and self-repairs during L2 speech production8
Putting translanguaging into practice: A view from England8
Improving self-efficacy beliefs and English language proficiency through a summer intensive program8
Early Chinese heritage language learning in Canada: A study of Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking children's receptive vocabulary attainment8
Multimodality in the classroom presentation genre: Findings from a study of Turkish psychology undergraduate talks8
Being a YouTuber that language learners recognize: A study on constructing language teacher identities in social media community of practice8
A dialogic approach to promoting professional development: Understanding change in Hong Kong language teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding vocabulary teaching and learning8
Local culture and locally produced ELT textbooks: How do teachers bridge the gap?8
Are learners ready for Englishes in the EFL classroom? A large-scale survey of learners’ views of non-standard accents and teachers’ accents8
The case for Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Pedagogy: Bilingual Reading to learn for Spanish-Speaking immigrant mothers8
The effect of visuospatial designing elements of zoomable user interfaces on second language vocabulary acquisition8
Autobiography writing instruction: The journey of a teacher participating in a systemic functional linguistics genre pedagogy professional development8
Effects of peer collaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension of conversational implicatures8
The impact of early foreign language learning on language proficiency development from middle to high school8
Exploring students’ demotivation and remotivation in learning English8
Protecting and enhancing willingness to communicate with idiodynamic peer-peer strategy sharing8
The effects of individual differences in field dependence/independence and analogical reasoning for L2 instruction7
Explicit instruction for the development of L2 Spanish pragmatic ability during study abroad7
Developing a task-based approach to assessment in an Asian context7
Managing language issue in second language storytelling7
MC listening questions vs. integrated listening-to-summarize tasks: What listening abilities do they assess?7
Materializing narratives: The story behind the story7
Nonlinearity and inter- and intra-individual variability in the extent of engagement in self-reflection and its role in second language writing: A multiple-case study7
Examining the underlying structure of after-class boredom experienced by English majors7
Instanarratives: Stories of foreign language learning on Instagram7
L2 development of phraseological knowledge via a xu-argument based continuation task: A latent curve modeling approach7
Exploring engagement of users of Global Englishes in a community of inquiry7
SFL pedagogies in language education: Special issue introduction7
Using corpus analysis to extend experimental research: Genre effects in L2 writing7
Rhetorical and phraseological features of research article introductions: Variation among five social science disciplines7
A helping hand for thinking and speaking: Effects of gesturing and task planning on second language narrative discourse7
Listening strategies in the English Medium Instruction (EMI) classroom: How students comprehend the teacher input7
Knowing me, knowing you: A comparative study on the effects of anonymous and conference peer feedback on the writing of learners of English as an additional language7
New teaching strategies from student teachers’ pedagogical conceptual change in CALL7
Learning to listen strategically: Developing a listening comprehension strategies questionnaire for learning English as a global language7
Proficiency and pragmatic production in L2 Chinese study abroad7
The progression of collaborative argumentation among English learners: A qualitative study7
Person factors and strategic processing in L2 listening comprehension: Examining the role of vocabulary size, metacognitive knowledge, self-efficacy, and strategy use7
Effects of multidimensional foreign language reading anxiety on achievement in Japanese EFL classrooms7
Teachers' beliefs on multilingualism in the Basque Country: Basque at the core of multilingual education7
The impact of task complexity on patterns of interaction during web-based asynchronous collaborative writing tasks6
Multimodal alignment in telecollaboration: A methodological exploration6
Effects of a professional development program on teachers’ oral corrective feedback practices6
Classroom discourse in lower secondary French-as-a-foreign-language classes in Norway: Amounts and contexts of first and target language use6
Emotion(less) textbooks? An investigation into the affective lexical content of EFL textbooks6
Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?6
Productive versus receptive L2 knowledge of polysemous phrasal verbs: A comparison of determining factors6
Professional development for English-medium instruction professors at Korean universities6
Examining students’ reflections on a collaborative online international learning project in an ICLHE context6
Understanding EFL reading anxiety in relation to learning motivation, attitudes and strategies for Chinese and Spanish undergraduates6
Incidental learning of a grammatical feature from reading by Japanese learners of English as a foreign language6
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