System

Papers
(The TQCC of System is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book review317
Book review201
Book review196
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL180
A narrative autobiographical exploration of language-in-education policy roles in a youth reengagement program151
EFL students’ self-regulated learning, motivation, and perceived teacher support in cooperative learning: A network analysis perspective132
The effect of pre-reading morphological intervention on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words131
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation127
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale114
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs114
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts110
Book review108
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching102
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners102
The effects of collaborative planning on CALF metrics and textual coherence in L2 writing under varying task complexity101
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study91
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences88
Subtitles for vocabulary learning: Assessing the effects of L2, L1, and bilingual subtitles over time86
How engagement dynamics shape collaborative writing processes: Perspectives from EAL learners84
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology84
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus81
English-as-a-foreign language university instructors' perceptions of integrating artificial intelligence: A Turkish perspective78
Conquering the tower of Babel? How linguistic distance affects second and foreign language reading in German, English, and French in year 9 in Germany77
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 l76
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students71
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis70
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology67
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry65
Editorial Board64
Book review61
Book review60
“Like porcupines and hedgehogs”: Building positive teacher-student relationships in L2 classroom assessment from a relationships motivation theory perspective58
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education57
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) 1056
Teacher professional development in focus: Dealing with students’ chat-based contributions in online teaching55
Teachers' and support staff's views and experiences of digitally mediated EMI courses in two different university contexts55
Analysing preservice teachers' enactment of the UDL framework to support diverse students in a remote teaching context55
Integrating language and history teaching through cognitive discourse functions: A closer look at the learning outcomes of a design-based research project55
Reflective teaching, teacher immunity, and burnout: Investigating possible links53
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach52
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production48
Examining EFL learners’ oral advice production: The role of pragmatic demands and task complexity48
A typology of metalinguistic feedback48
Mapping the research on language teacher emotion: A systematic literature review47
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education47
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts44
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis44
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership44
The multimodal organisation of teacher feedback: A multimodal (Inter)action analysis44
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout43
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 competence43
Out-of-class English learning anxiety and its relation to motivation among Chinese university English majors42
A systematic review of reading self-efficacy in second or foreign language learning42
Exploring the influence of teachers’ motivation, self-efficacy, and institutional support on their research engagement: A study of Chinese university EFL teachers41
Book review40
Editorial Board40
Book review39
“Navigating Precarity”: Motivation of English language teachers in a Chinese higher vocational college38
Beyond monologues – Examining L2 Finnish learners’ interpersonal behavior during dialogue speaking tasks using the computer-joystick method37
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness37
Apology strategies and ritual frame indicating expressions (RFIEs) in advanced Korean learners’ Chinese: An interlanguage pragmatic study37
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration37
The glocalisation of English-medium instruction examined through of the ROAD-MAPPING framework: A case study of teachers and students in a Vietnamese university37
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China36
Conceptualizing and measuring foreign language reading boredom36
Corrigendum to “The impact of AI chatbots on EFL learners’ oral proficiency and willingness to communicate” [System 136 (2026) 103919]36
Mind the cognitive load gap: Student translators’ cognitive demands and translation behaviors in GenAI-assisted legal translation36
Assessing writing quality in story continuation writing tasks: The role of linguistic alignment36
Development of L2 disciplinary literacy: A multidimensional analysis36
Growth of lexical and syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency in spoken production of first language and second language children35
Development of morphological diversity in second language Korean: An NLP analysis using the Korean Morphological Richness Analyzer 1.035
Understanding student engagement with teacher and peer feedback in L2 writing34
Book review34
Linking mindsets to emotions in foreign language learning: A study integrating situated expectancy-value and control-value theories across proficiency levels34
Exploring EFL learners' cognitive/emotional dissonance in content-based foreign language instruction: An ecological perspective34
Affordances and learner agency: Chinese EFL learners’ English vlogging practices on Douyin33
Vocabulary learning in EMI courses: A longitudinal study of Chinese university students over a term33
Exploring L2 writing teachers’ feeling rules, emotional labor and regulation strategies33
ChatGPT as a tool for self-learning English among EFL learners: A multi-methods study33
Harnessing AI in academic writing: The complex interplay of AI literacy and self-directed learning among university L2 learners33
Understanding EFL students’ use of self-made AI chatbots as personalized writing assistance tools: A mixed methods study32
ChatGPT affordance for logic learning strategies and its usefulness for developing knowledge and quality of logic in English argumentative writing32
Book review32
Developing an AI-assisted learning flow framework for pre-service teachers of Chinese as a second language: Investigating the influence of teacher educators’ support on AI-flow and self-efficacy in te32
Yet another look at strategies for learning grammar: Validating the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Iranian EFL context31
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 enjoyme31
Learner engagement in comprehension-based and production-based tasks: Insights from young learners through an ecological perspective31
L2 speaking functional adequacy in study abroad: Development in monologic and dialogic task conditions31
Book review31
Interplay among assessment practices, legitimacy of multimodality and learner identity: The case of embodied multimodal composing in L2 writing classes31
Book review31
Does instructional language matter in CLIL? A study of learner proficiency and affective factors30
The role of positive learning emotions in sustaining cognitive motivation for multilingual development30
Evaluating AI's impact on self-regulated language learning: A systematic review29
Beyond ideologies of nativeness in the intelligibility principle for L2 English pronunciation: A corpus-supported review29
The dynamics of second-language learning experience and motivational variability: Focusing on a reflective autobiography29
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing29
Adapting to Complexity: Teacher-Student interactions in synchronous online language classes through a dynamic systems lens29
A structural topic modeling analysis of positive psychology in EFL teacher education from 2010 to 202528
Postgraduate Chinese EFL learners’ emotional vulnerability displays and regulation strategies28
FL listening motivation, interest, linguistic self-confidence, and overall proficiency: A complete double mediation model28
The dimensionality of L2 teacher self-regulation strategies and its interactions with teacher self-efficacy: Exploratory structural equation modeling28
A comparative study of thematic choices and thematic progression patterns in human-written and AI-generated texts28
Buoyancy and engagement in online English learning: The mediating roles and complex interactions of anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom28
Enjoyable, anxious, or bored? Investigating Chinese EFL learners’ classroom emotions and their engagement in technology-based EMI classrooms28
Book review27
NLP-based analysis of verb semantic cohesion in L2 writing: Interaction of genre and proficiency on verb networks27
Book review27
Editorial Board26
Editorial Board26
In pursuit of pink elephants: Sociocultural Theory and the determination of learning in assessments that support L2 teaching and learning26
Metacognitive strategies and self-efficacy co-shape L2 achievement: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach26
Doing the task, doing the relationship: Responses to self-assessment and advice in peer reflection on microteaching26
Integrated effects of interactional cognitions and emotional regulation capacity on peer interaction in the L2 classroom26
Becoming with the algorithm: A posthumanist narrative of EFL teacher identity in the age of AI26
Technology-enhanced self-regulated second language learning interventions: A systematic review25
Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape25
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution25
The impact of concordancing on English learners’ foreign language anxiety and enjoyment: An application of data-driven learning25
ChatGPT: The catalyst for teacher-student rapport and grit development in L2 class25
The relationship of language anxiety and English learners’ accentedness, comprehensibility, and speech rate across three communication tasks25
Enhancing Chinese university students' writing performance and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategy use through a strategy-based intervention25
CACTI: Use of a survey instrument as a semistructured interview protocol to facilitate teacher retrospection on bi/multilingual practices in EMI24
Using a metaphor task to explore TESOL students’ beliefs about the roles of teachers24
Language teacher associations as a nexus of research and practice: A collaborative autoethnography24
The relationship between L2 grit and vocabulary knowledge in first-year Moroccan university students24
Topicalization as a practice for facilitating L2 discussion in video-mediated extensive reading book club meetings24
Internationally mobile students’ language views in an Inner Circle English writing course24
The effect of self-perceived learning needs on self-regulated learning and learning outcomes in an EFL listening course24
Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners’ acquisition of Italian consonant length contrast24
Reflective dialogues in negotiating the research-practice nexus: A case study of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher-researcher collaboration24
Implicit statistical learning and working memory predict EFL development and written task outcomes in adolescents24
Unraveling the relationships among EFL teacher emotions, immunity, and teaching quality: A multilevel structural-equation modelling analysis23
Rising China and rising Chinese: An investigation into African international students’ language beliefs23
A configurational exploration of how emotions influence willingness to communicate among Chinese EFL learners: A fsQCA approach23
Development and initial validation of learner engagement with teacher written corrective feedback scale23
The effects of AI-assisted feedback on students’ perceptions, emotions, and learning outcomes in L2 writing: a three-level meta-analysis23
The effects of chunk reading strategy training on the word chunking skills of L1-Japanese English learners23
Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers’ synchronous small group online tutorials22
Modelling the interrelationships among self-regulated learning components, critical thinking and reading comprehension by PLS-SEM: A mixed methods study22
The mediating effects of online learning engagement on the relationship between Chinese university students’ L2 grit and their English language achievement22
Adaptive immunity to new language varieties: Cases of English and French as foreign languages learners22
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words21
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement21
Book review21
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]21
Examining Chinese EFL learners’ online self-regulated learning: A mixed-methods approach21
Foregrounding language teacher agency and positioning of EFL teachers in the research-practice nexus21
Corrigendum to “Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective” [System 113 (2023) 102959]21
Book review21
Navigating language learning choices: How Chinese students adapt out-of-school English learning choices in a constrained EFL context21
Guest editorial: L2 pragmatics in language teacher education21
Editorial Board20
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model19
Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances19
Book review19
Book review19
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users19
Book review19
Book review19
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners19
Book review19
Enhancing the research-praxis nexus: Critical moments implementing translanguaging pedagogies in English language education at an Austrian middle school18
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts18
The effect of social media use on language learning: A meta-analysis18
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses18
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities18
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors18
Competition or synergy? Effects of task complexity and social demand on EFL learners’ interactional pragmatic performance18
Exploring patterns of L2 development in study abroad: Insights from cluster analysis18
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language18
When AI support shapes affect in L2 writing: Task-specific emotions across genre-based writing tasks18
Weaving with emotions: Chinese international students’ academic discourse socialisation through feedback in academic tutorials18
Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis17
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college17
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning17
Deferred multimodal input enhances L2 listening and fast-speech adaptation: A predictive coding perspective17
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model17
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features17
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use17
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality17
“I Haven't felt AI writing is taking away my agency as a person”: A longitudinal study of ESL students' use of GenAI in academic literacies development17
Book review16
Developing critical minds: An ethnographic study on the implementation of conspiracy theories to foster critical digital literacy in English language classrooms16
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections16
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses16
Talking science: Women scientists’ engagement in spoken public science communication online16
Evaluating the roles of breadth and depth of aural vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension of EFL learners: An investigation applying auditory measures16
Book review16
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context16
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review16
Language teachers as pedagogical designers in technology-mediated language education16
Book review16
The impact of input mode on incidental vocabulary learning for CSL learners: Evidence from offline tests and eye-tracking studies16
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user16
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners16
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks16
A word to the wise: Crafting impactful prompts for ChatGPT16
Editorial Board16
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation16
Raising the (meta)pragmatic awareness of non-native pre-service teachers of L2 Italian with a telecollaborative data-driven learning project on formal email writing15
Accent and topic familiarity in L2 listening comprehension: A mixed methods study of Chinese EFL learners’ performance and perceptions15
Effects of Global Englishes-oriented pedagogy in the EFL classroom15
Investigating teacher questioning in Hong Kong secondary EMI classrooms: (Mis)alignment between beliefs and practices15
Book review15
Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme15
Multimedia enhanced vocabulary learning: The role of input condition and learner-related factors15
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing15
A latent profile analysis of emotional intelligence and its relationship with L2 student writing feedback literacy15
Writing from Abroad: Linguistic complexity and L2 Arabic writing quality across genres15
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?15
“We don't say ‘To-r Ó-nto. We say ‘To-r Ó-no.” Language ideologies on TikTok15
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach15
Investigating the mediating role of positive and negative beliefs about competition and competitive orientation in the relationship between language mindsets and emotions15
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the L2 teacher boredom scale15
Measuring the Global Englishes mindset: Development and validation of the GEM-Q for EFL learners15
Implementing reading circles in an EAP course: Novice academic learners’ co-regulation strategies and their attitudinal dispositions15
Book review14
Book review14
Exploring the linguistic signature of interpersonal liking in second language interaction14
The effect of “at home” network communication, off-site travel, and extracurricular activity on longitudinal social network development in study abroad14
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with professor Jean-Marc Dewaele14
‘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 university14
Empathy, executive function, and dynamic L2 lexical inferencing in emotionally charged contexts: Predicting performance, inferencing potential, and retention14
Metacognitive instruction in technology-mediated TBLT: An exploratory study of learners’ engagement14
The mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between foreign language anxiety and learning burnout among college students with different language environments14
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators14
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews14
Alignment between intended and enacted pedagogies: A study of ELT curriculum innovation implementation in Pakistan14
Task type, task elements, and L2 grit: Predictors of ESL learners’ behavioural engagement in computer-mediated oral tasks14
Multilingual identity and English achievement: A moderated mediation model of self-regulated learning strategy use and gender among Chinese EFL learners14
Facilitating EFL learners' intercultural competence through culturally responsive teaching in oral English classrooms14
EFL university students’ game element preferences and learning needs: Implications for the instructional design of digital gamified classes14
Editorial Board14
Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions14
Book review14
Reading aloud listening test items to young learners: Attention, item understanding, and test performance14
When extending wait-time is not enough for student participation: Eliciting student responses during L2 whole-class speaking14
A study on the affordances of digital fairy-tale rewriting: A critical literacy approach to digital multimodal composing14
Rapport in research interviews: An interdiscursive perspective14
Becoming a teacher in the era of AI: A multiple-case study of pre-service teachers’ investment in AI-facilitated learning-to-teach practices13
Editorial Board13
Modeling writing self-efficacy over time and across tasks in an EFL context13
Book review13
Investigating the capability of ChatGPT for generating multiple-choice reading comprehension items13
The impact of functional load and phoneme position on automated pronunciation assessment in young Korean EFL learners13
Modeling speaking performance in young learners of Chinese as a heritage language: The interplay of L2 grit, motivational intensity, and willingness to communicate13
Critical digital literacies, generative AI, and the negotiation of agency in human-AI interactions13
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]13
Exploring Chinese university students’ motivation and engagement in English medium instruction: A latent profiling approach13
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