System

Papers
(The median citation count of System is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching193
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners166
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora100
Editorial Board97
Book review97
Book review94
Book review93
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL91
Subtitles for vocabulary learning: Assessing the effects of L2, L1, and bilingual subtitles over time87
The effect of pre-reading morphological intervention on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words84
A narrative autobiographical exploration of language-in-education policy roles in a youth reengagement program80
When to conduct a vocabulary quiz, before the review or after the review?79
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts78
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus70
English-as-a-foreign language university instructors' perceptions of integrating artificial intelligence: A Turkish perspective69
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale68
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology64
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation64
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs64
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences62
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study61
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers61
Examining EFL learners’ oral advice production: The role of pragmatic demands and task complexity60
Conquering the tower of Babel? How linguistic distance affects second and foreign language reading in German, English, and French in year 9 in Germany60
Corrigendum to “Mitigating ethnic minority students' foreign language anxiety through co-learning in Chinese as an additional language classrooms: A transpositioning perspective” [System 127 (2024) 1058
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students56
Reflective teaching, teacher immunity, and burnout: Investigating possible links54
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education53
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis52
Editorial Board52
How age and L2 proficiency affectthe L2 lexicon51
Book review51
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology50
Book review50
Book review48
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry48
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts47
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership47
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach47
Integrating language and history teaching through cognitive discourse functions: A closer look at the learning outcomes of a design-based research project47
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary46
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production45
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout45
Analysing preservice teachers' enactment of the UDL framework to support diverse students in a remote teaching context44
Mapping the research on language teacher emotion: A systematic literature review44
Bridging classroom and real-life learning mediated by a mobile app with a self-regulation scheme: Impacts on Chinese EFL primary students’ self-regulated vocabulary learning outcomes, enjoyment, and l43
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education41
The impact of different conversational generative AI chatbots on EFL learners: An analysis of willingness to communicate, foreign language speaking anxiety, and self-perceived communicative competence39
Research on language learning motivation in school settings in System39
Growth of lexical and syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency in spoken production of first language and second language children39
Book review39
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis39
Innovations in teaching L2 writing: How changes in teachers' SCK and PCK impact learners’ perceptions and writing outcomes39
Development of L2 disciplinary literacy: A multidimensional analysis38
Editorial Board37
Editorial Board36
The effects of phonics instruction on L2 phonological decoding and vocabulary learning: An experimental study of Chinese EFL learners36
Exploring the influence of teachers’ motivation, self-efficacy, and institutional support on their research engagement: A study of Chinese university EFL teachers35
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China34
Exploring EFL learners' cognitive/emotional dissonance in content-based foreign language instruction: An ecological perspective34
Out-of-class English learning anxiety and its relation to motivation among Chinese university English majors32
Development of morphological diversity in second language Korean: An NLP analysis using the Korean Morphological Richness Analyzer 1.032
When CLIL is for all: Improving learner motivation through peer-tutoring in Mathematics32
“Navigating Precarity”: Motivation of English language teachers in a Chinese higher vocational college32
Conceptualizing and measuring foreign language reading boredom32
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration32
Community of Inquiry perceptions and divergences between students and instructors31
Harnessing AI in academic writing: The complex interplay of AI literacy and self-directed learning among university L2 learners31
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness31
The glocalisation of English-medium instruction examined through of the ROAD-MAPPING framework: A case study of teachers and students in a Vietnamese university31
Vocabulary learning in EMI courses: A longitudinal study of Chinese university students over a term31
A systematic review of reading self-efficacy in second or foreign language learning31
Exploring L2 writing teachers’ feeling rules, emotional labor and regulation strategies30
Beyond monologues – Examining L2 Finnish learners’ interpersonal behavior during dialogue speaking tasks using the computer-joystick method28
Understanding EFL students’ use of self-made AI chatbots as personalized writing assistance tools: A mixed methods study28
Understanding student engagement with teacher and peer feedback in L2 writing27
Assessing writing quality in story continuation writing tasks: The role of linguistic alignment27
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing27
ChatGPT as a tool for self-learning English among EFL learners: A multi-methods study27
Book review27
ChatGPT affordance for logic learning strategies and its usefulness for developing knowledge and quality of logic in English argumentative writing27
Gender, metacognitive intervention, and dialogic interaction: EFL multimedia listening26
Book review26
Book review26
“We were told that the content we delivered was not as important:” disconnect and disparities in world language student teaching during COVID-1926
Book review26
FL listening motivation, interest, linguistic self-confidence, and overall proficiency: A complete double mediation model26
The dynamics of second-language learning experience and motivational variability: Focusing on a reflective autobiography26
Book review26
The impact of early foreign language learning on language proficiency development from middle to high school26
The role of positive learning emotions in sustaining cognitive motivation for multilingual development25
Learner engagement in comprehension-based and production-based tasks: Insights from young learners through an ecological perspective25
A comparative study of thematic choices and thematic progression patterns in human-written and AI-generated texts25
Adapting to Complexity: Teacher-Student interactions in synchronous online language classes through a dynamic systems lens25
Beyond ideologies of nativeness in the intelligibility principle for L2 English pronunciation: A corpus-supported review25
Buoyancy and engagement in online English learning: The mediating roles and complex interactions of anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom24
Yet another look at strategies for learning grammar: Validating the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Iranian EFL context24
The dimensionality of L2 teacher self-regulation strategies and its interactions with teacher self-efficacy: Exploratory structural equation modeling24
Interplay among assessment practices, legitimacy of multimodality and learner identity: The case of embodied multimodal composing in L2 writing classes24
A latent profile analysis of EFL learners’ self-efficacy: Associations with academic emotions and language proficiency24
Postgraduate Chinese EFL learners’ emotional vulnerability displays and regulation strategies23
Book review23
The impact of concordancing on English learners’ foreign language anxiety and enjoyment: An application of data-driven learning23
Evaluating AI's impact on self-regulated language learning: A systematic review23
Enjoyable, anxious, or bored? Investigating Chinese EFL learners’ classroom emotions and their engagement in technology-based EMI classrooms23
The relationship of language anxiety and English learners’ accentedness, comprehensibility, and speech rate across three communication tasks23
Examining the association between teacher support and commitment as well as willingness to communicate in Chinese college students: The sequential mediation role of growth language mindset and enjoyme23
Book review23
NLP-based analysis of verb semantic cohesion in L2 writing: Interaction of genre and proficiency on verb networks23
Learning to construct authorial voice through citations: A longitudinal case study of L2 postgraduate novice writers22
Exploring the effect of corpus-informed and conventional homework materials on fostering EFL students’ grammatical construction learning22
Editorial Board22
Proficiency pairing and engagement with language in L2 peer interaction22
Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape22
In pursuit of pink elephants: Sociocultural Theory and the determination of learning in assessments that support L2 teaching and learning22
Book review22
Enhancing Chinese university students' writing performance and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategy use through a strategy-based intervention22
Metacognitive strategies and self-efficacy co-shape L2 achievement: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach22
Book review22
Promoting L2 reading fluency at the tertiary level through timed and repeated reading22
The effect of self-perceived learning needs on self-regulated learning and learning outcomes in an EFL listening course21
Technology-enhanced self-regulated second language learning interventions: A systematic review21
ChatGPT: The catalyst for teacher-student rapport and grit development in L2 class21
Integrated effects of interactional cognitions and emotional regulation capacity on peer interaction in the L2 classroom21
The mediating effects of online learning engagement on the relationship between Chinese university students’ L2 grit and their English language achievement20
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution20
Implicit statistical learning and working memory predict EFL development and written task outcomes in adolescents20
CACTI: Use of a survey instrument as a semistructured interview protocol to facilitate teacher retrospection on bi/multilingual practices in EMI20
Modelling the interrelationships among self-regulated learning components, critical thinking and reading comprehension by PLS-SEM: A mixed methods study20
Unraveling the relationships among EFL teacher emotions, immunity, and teaching quality: A multilevel structural-equation modelling analysis20
Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers’ synchronous small group online tutorials20
Internationally mobile students’ language views in an Inner Circle English writing course20
Bidirectional relationship between L2 pragmatic development and learner identity in a study abroad context20
Mobilizing ‘context’: Vocabulary checks in ESL tutoring sessions19
Reflective dialogues in negotiating the research-practice nexus: A case study of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher-researcher collaboration19
The relationship between L2 grit and vocabulary knowledge in first-year Moroccan university students19
Topicalization as a practice for facilitating L2 discussion in video-mediated extensive reading book club meetings19
The effects of chunk reading strategy training on the word chunking skills of L1-Japanese English learners19
Language teacher associations as a nexus of research and practice: A collaborative autoethnography19
Book review19
Covid-19 as a critical incident: Reflection on language assessment literacy and the need for radical changes19
Exploring the intricate relationship between foreign language anxiety, attention and self-repairs during L2 speech production18
Rising China and rising Chinese: An investigation into African international students’ language beliefs18
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language18
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words18
Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners’ acquisition of Italian consonant length contrast18
A comparative study of the effects of L1 and L2 prewriting discussions on L2 writing performance18
Examining Chinese EFL learners’ online self-regulated learning: A mixed-methods approach18
Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances18
Peer interaction, writing proficiency, and the quality of collaborative digital multimodal composing task: Comparing guided and unguided planning18
Development and initial validation of learner engagement with teacher written corrective feedback scale18
Using a metaphor task to explore TESOL students’ beliefs about the roles of teachers18
Book review18
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]18
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement18
A configurational exploration of how emotions influence willingness to communicate among Chinese EFL learners: A fsQCA approach18
Book review17
Book review17
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users17
Deferred multimodal input enhances L2 listening and fast-speech adaptation: A predictive coding perspective17
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts17
Book review17
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom17
Corrigendum to “Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective” [System 113 (2023) 102959]17
Book review17
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model17
Foregrounding language teacher agency and positioning of EFL teachers in the research-practice nexus16
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features16
The effect of spacing on incidental and deliberate learning of L2 collocations16
Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-1916
Book review16
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses16
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model16
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners16
Situating emotionality within socialization in study abroad contexts: The Student's perspective16
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college16
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use15
Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis15
Enhancing the research-praxis nexus: Critical moments implementing translanguaging pedagogies in English language education at an Austrian middle school15
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks15
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context15
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors15
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity15
Developing critical minds: An ethnographic study on the implementation of conspiracy theories to foster critical digital literacy in English language classrooms15
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality15
Guest editorial: L2 pragmatics in language teacher education15
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities15
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning15
Book review14
Book review14
Evaluating the roles of breadth and depth of aural vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension of EFL learners: An investigation applying auditory measures14
Book review14
Investigating the mediating role of positive and negative beliefs about competition and competitive orientation in the relationship between language mindsets and emotions14
Effects of Global Englishes-oriented pedagogy in the EFL classroom14
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners14
Raising the (meta)pragmatic awareness of non-native pre-service teachers of L2 Italian with a telecollaborative data-driven learning project on formal email writing14
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review14
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews14
The impact of input mode on incidental vocabulary learning for CSL learners: Evidence from offline tests and eye-tracking studies14
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing14
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses13
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections13
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the L2 teacher boredom scale13
Measuring the Global Englishes mindset: Development and validation of the GEM-Q for EFL learners13
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?13
Editorial Board13
Book review13
A latent profile analysis of emotional intelligence and its relationship with L2 student writing feedback literacy13
Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme13
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user13
Book review13
Talking science: Women scientists’ engagement in spoken public science communication online13
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation13
Exploring the linguistic signature of interpersonal liking in second language interaction12
The emergence of boredom in an online language class: An ecological perspective12
The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools12
Language teachers as pedagogical designers in technology-mediated language education12
‘Finally, it's all in vain’: A Chinese as an additional language teacher's agency in navigating the teaching-research nexus in a neoliberal Chinese university12
Book review12
Reading aloud listening test items to young learners: Attention, item understanding, and test performance12
Facilitating EFL learners' intercultural competence through culturally responsive teaching in oral English classrooms12
Language teacher investment as resistance: Why do teachers engage in practitioner research in an uneven world12
Looking into English-medium instruction teachers’ metadiscourse: An ELF perspective12
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators12
A word to the wise: Crafting impactful prompts for ChatGPT12
Book review12
The mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between foreign language anxiety and learning burnout among college students with different language environments12
When extending wait-time is not enough for student participation: Eliciting student responses during L2 whole-class speaking12
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with professor Jean-Marc Dewaele12
An overview of TBLT approaches and cognitive processes with heritage language learners12
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach12
Multimedia enhanced vocabulary learning: The role of input condition and learner-related factors12
Investigating teacher questioning in Hong Kong secondary EMI classrooms: (Mis)alignment between beliefs and practices12
Book review12
Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions12
Investigating the capability of ChatGPT for generating multiple-choice reading comprehension items12
Conversation Cloud: A videoconferencing learning ecology for Thai undergraduate EFL learners12
Editorial Board12
Editorial Board11
Enhancing EMI learning through L1 use and ESP: A mixed-methods study in a Chinese transnational education context11
A latent profile analysis of Informal Digital Learning of English: Emotion regulation strategies as predictors and willingness to communicate as outcomes11
Exploring Chinese university students’ motivation and engagement in English medium instruction: A latent profiling approach11
Assessment of Interactional Competence in L2 German: Integrating an innovative rubric to help language teachers effectively evaluate pragmatics11
The predictive value of gaze behavior and mouse-clicking in testing listening proficiency: A sensor technology study11
A study on the affordances of digital fairy-tale rewriting: A critical literacy approach to digital multimodal composing11
Exploring students’ demotivation and remotivation in learning English11
Corrigendum to “Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers' synchronous small group online tutorials” [System 121 (2024) 103185]11
Book review11
Becoming a teacher in the era of AI: A multiple-case study of pre-service teachers’ investment in AI-facilitated learning-to-teach practices11
Book review11
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