Journal of Second Language Writing

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Second Language Writing is 0. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Past JSLW Editor Rosa M. Manchón speaks: Ilona Leki & Tony Silva’s invitation to co-edit the journal—my reflection123
Editorial48
Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing47
Book Review44
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled44
Influence of a perspective oriented task, executive function, and trait perspective taking on EFL Writing41
Generative AI: Same same but different?40
Book review35
Book Review33
Book review31
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing30
Grammatical complexity: Insights from English for academic purposes teachers29
The effects of task complexity on second language writing processes and products in computer-assisted collaborative writing26
Is corrective feedback during telecollaboration beneficial? The effects of peer and teacher corrections on L2 writing proficiency26
The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance26
Editorial Board23
Editorial Board22
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback22
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing21
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing21
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes21
The gold standard for the teaching profession: A rejoinder19
Book review19
Editorial Board18
CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration15
Editorial Board14
Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach13
Book review13
AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments13
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”13
Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance13
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland13
To grade is not to grade?: Exploring ungrading in the teaching of L2 writing12
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L212
Editorial Board12
“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers12
JSLW editorial for March 202512
Book Review12
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement12
Book review12
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation11
Transpacific telecollaboration and L2 writing: Influences of interpersonal dynamics on peer feedback and revision uptake10
Teachers’ conceptualizations of digital multimodal composing in L2 writing10
Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness10
Translanguaging with generative AI in EFL writing: Students’ practices and perceptions9
Book review9
Editorial Board9
Book Review8
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing8
Book review7
The development and validation of a scale on student AI literacy in L2 writing: A domain-specific perspective7
Ungrading as an assessment philosophy: Reliability, validity, and practicality7
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies7
Editorial7
Scholarly trends and representations of L2 writers in second language writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study7
The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing7
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF7
Book review6
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach6
Introduction to JSLW’s 30th anniversary special issue6
Book Review6
The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language6
Book Review6
Second-language writing development of adult immigrants following three study paths reflecting their varying levels of prior education6
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment6
Promoting second language writing autonomy through digital multimodal composing6
Editorial Board6
The effects of completing collaborative or independent writing on the development of language use in individual writing6
JSLW@30: The founders & past editors speak6
The role of communicative purpose in describing and interpreting lexico-grammatical variation in L2 writing6
Towards a GELT-informed pedagogy for multilingual writing: Expanding Tardy’s case6
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale6
Book Review5
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation5
Editorial Board5
Book Review5
Book review5
Towards a reconciliatory approach to ungrading in writing classes: A response to Crusan5
Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency5
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing5
Editorial Board5
L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance4
Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective4
June 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography4
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education4
The effects of AWE and peer feedback on cohesion and coherence in continuation writing4
Book Review4
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting4
AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource3
Critical language awareness and cautious transnationalist work3
Exploring complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: Diversity and sophistication of verb-argument structures in L2 Dutch writing3
Zooming in on the process-product nexus of meaning-related revisions: A micro-analytic approach to keystroke logging data3
Book review3
Mapping the interactions between task sequencing, anxiety, and enjoyment in L2 writing development3
A bibliometric analysis on L2 writing in the first 20 years of the 21st century: Research impacts and research trends3
Expertise in second language writing instruction3
Editorial Board3
The use of spelling and reference tools in second language writing: Their impact on students’ writing performance and process3
Secondary school English teachers’ application of artificial intelligence-guided chatbot in the provision of feedback on student writing: An activity theory perspective3
Book review2
March 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography2
Source-based writing of the high- and low-proficiency adolescent writer in the high-school L2 classroom2
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing2
March 2025 JSLW Annotated Bibliography2
Book review2
Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review2
Book Review2
Book review2
Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing2
Book review2
Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples2
Book review2
Book review2
June 2025 JSLW annotated bibliography2
Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省2
Exploring EFL learners’ engagement and draft quality in a multi-stage expository writing task using model texts as a feedback facilitator: A mixed-methods study1
Book review1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing1
Lexical characteristics of young L2 English learners’ narrative writing at the start of formal instruction1
Book Review1
Editorial Board1
Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study1
Editorial1
Verb argument constructions in argumentative essays by college-level Asian learners of English: Exploring the effects of English proficiency, acquisition context, and topic1
Book review1
From the Editors: June, 20221
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing1
Book review1
Book Review1
The case for a GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing1
Book Review1
Writing teacher feedback literacy: Surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, values, and abilities1
Western-trained Vietnamese teachers’ EFL writing instruction: A collaborative autoethnography of tensions, emotion, and agency from an activity theoretical perspective1
Book Review1
Computer-mediated collaborative writing in L2 classrooms: A systematic review1
Book review1
Book review1
Stories behind the scenes: L2 students’ cognitive processes of multimodal composing and traditional writing1
Incorporating digital multimodal composition in content teaching: A multimodal analysis of students’ legal popularization videos1
The relationship of proficiency to speed fluency, pausing, and eye-gaze behaviours in L2 writing0
ICT-enabled informal learning in EFL writing0
Book Review0
Book Review0
Book Review0
Ethical use of generative AI for writing practices: Addressing linguistically diverse students in U.S. Universities' AI statements0
Multilingual learners' digital book composing: Examining circulation of translingual, multimodal resources in an elementary classroom0
Editorial0
Beyond words: L2 writing teachers’ visual conceptualizations of ChatGPT in teaching and learning0
Emergence in teacher writing expertise: Teachers be(com)ing expert0
Decolonizing second language writing: Possibilities and challenges0
Education lecturers’ expectations about writing proficiency: Insights from corpus analysis of teacher feedback on academic writing0
Cyclical interplay between L2 writing, WCF processing and rewriting: Explaining modification and consolidation in L2 development0
Applying big ideas to facilitate reading-writing integration in language classrooms0
Book review0
Discoursal scholarly identity in research writing0
Book review0
Pursuing expertise in L2 writing instruction research0
AI technologies in the ESL/EFL writing classroom: The villain or the champion?0
How do we know (if) it works? A review of research evaluating publishing pedagogies for multilingual writers0
Challenging the connection between task perceptions and language use in L2 writing: Genre, cognitive task complexity, and linguistic complexity0
Exploring the effects of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production0
Book review0
Book review0
Editorial0
Steering toward situational propensity/shi 势: A multicase study of planning and developing EFL writing centres in China0
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing0
Dialogic entanglements in researcher identity: A duoethnographic exploration of critical (self)reflexive moments of two transnational L2 writing scholars0
Generative AI is useful for second language writing, but when, why, and for how long do learners use it?0
“Why can’t writing courses be taught like this fo real”: Leveraging critical language awareness to promote African American Language speakers’ writing skills0
Conceptualising and cultivating Critical GAI Literacy in doctoral academic writing0
Editorial0
Editorial Board0
Socialization into English academic writing practices through out-of-class interaction in individual networks of practice0
Book review0
Expanding the collaborative writing research framework: A longitudinal analysis of how collaborative and independent writers orient to writing spaces0
Modeling expertise as variable options0
Verbal and on-screen peer interactions of EFL learners during multimodal collaborative writing: A multiple case-study0
Book Review0
The assessment of memes as digital multimodal composition in L2 classrooms0
Book Review0
Book review0
Using CLA pedagogy to examine an asynchronous supplemental English for academic writing program: Curriculum design and pilot results0
L2 collocation profiles and their relationship with vocabulary proficiency: A learner corpus approach0
An analysis of the impact of the L1 on bilinguals' writing competence0
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing0
Feedback over grades: Enhancing learning through ungrading0
University students’ engagement with generative AI-supported automated writing evaluation (AWE) feedback0
Book Review0
The impact of MT as a writing tool on EFL academic writing: A qualitative linguistic analysis0
Editorial0
Editorial Board0
Emergence of multiple groups of learners with different writing-development trajectories in classroom: Growth mixture modeling0
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing0
Book review0
A dynamic usage-based analysis of L2 written complexity development of sojourners0
Moral outrage or mere possibility? An exploration of epistemic versus deontic stance in reading-to-write argumentation0
Developing a genre-based model for assessing digital multimodal composing in second language writing: Integrating theory with practice0
Text mediation and collaborative meaning-making: Language support for an EAL academic author0
Bilingual returnee scholars’ identity in academic writing0
JSLW editorial for June 20250
Enhancing genre instruction on research proposal introductions with an online academic writing tutor0
Editorial Board0
Editors’ introduction0
Navigating complexity in plain English: A longitudinal analysis of syntactic and lexical complexity development in L2 legal writing0
Impacts of independent language skills and writing strategies on integrated writing performance of Chinese secondary EFL students0
Book review0
Using critical language awareness pedagogy to leverage home languages in multilingual South Africa0
Book Review0
Book Review0
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing0
Tracking the development in second language writers’ use of academic vocabulary in discipline-specific assignments0
Book Review0
Book review0
Grasping the effects of storyline complexity, task structure and proficiency in narrative writing performance0
Book Review0
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing0
Book Review0
Promoting critical language awareness at the graduate-level: A discovery oriented approach0
Multilingual academic genre knowledge: Insights from a mixed-method study of post-graduate students in Kazakhstan0
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing0
Effects of extracurricular academic reading on syntactic development in L2 abstract writing0
Using AI-text generated mentor texts for genre-based pedagogy in second language writing0
Book review0
Peer leadership in collaborative argumentative writing: A qualitative case study of blended design0
The multilingual poetry task: Innovating L2 writing pedagogy in the secondary classroom0
Multi-dimensional analysis of Japanese native speakers’ L2 Chinese writing0
Editorial Board0
A study of co-adaptation through journaling0
Editor’s introduction0
Book review0
Uniting CLA with WAW via SLA: Learning about written language as a model for college writing courses0
Editorial0
Collaborative writing based on generative AI models: Revision and deliberation processes in German as a foreign language0
Noticing and metalinguistic awareness in the L2 writing process: A translation-based writing task for L1 Arabic speakers preparing to teach Hebrew as a second language0
Exploring writing processes in authentic writing tasks: A multimodal mixed-method approach0
Book review0
Effects of input modality on alignment in continuation writing0
Questions of time and communication: A writing program administrator's experiences with labor-based grading0
Testing crowdsourcing as a means of recruitment for the comparative judgement of L2 argumentative essays0
An investigation of the relationship between argument structure and essay quality in assessed writing0
Introduction to the special issue: Innovation in L2 writing task design0
Brain-bound vs. extended: Contrasting approaches to second-language research writing in digital environments0
Book Review0
An exploration of CFL learners’ metaphor use in second language writing: Effects of genre and topic0
Book review0
Investigating L2 writers' critical AI literacy in AI-assisted writing: An APSE model0
Mapping the intersections of critical language awareness and affective approaches to second language writing0
Conflicts in peer interaction of collaborative writing – A case study in an EFL context0
Verbal diversity within constructions as a predictor of L2 writing proficiency0
Editorial0
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