OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Second Language Writing is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Future selves, enjoyment and anxiety as predictors of L2 writing achievement	77
Exploring student engagement with peer feedback on L2 writing	67
L2 student engagement with automated feedback on writing: Potential for learning and issues of trust	45
Relationship between second language English writing self-efficacy and achievement: A meta-regression analysis	34
Computer-mediated collaborative writing in L2 classrooms: A systematic review	32
Understanding L2 writing teacher expertise	31
Feedback-giving practice for L2 writing teachers: Friend or foe?	29
Syntactic and lexical features of adolescent L2 students’ academic writing	27
Are two heads really better than one? A meta-analysis of the L2 learning benefits of collaborative writing	27
The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language	26
Investigating the interactions between L2 writing processes and products under different task planning time conditions	26
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF	25
Teachers’ attempts at focused written corrective feedback in situ	25
Developing a genre-based model for assessing digital multimodal composing in second language writing: Integrating theory with practice	24
Task preparedness and L2 written production: Investigating effects of planning modes on L2 learners’ focus of attention and output	23
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach	22
Decolonizing second language writing: Possibilities and challenges	21
Collaborative writing in a Chinese as a foreign language classroom: Learners’ perceptions and motivations	21
Assessing collaborative writing in the digital age: An exploratory study	19
The social justice potential of critical reflection and critical language awareness pedagogies for L2 writers	19
Working memory, executive functions, and emotional intelligence in second language writing	18
What works may hurt: The negative side of feedback in second language writing	17
Challenging the connection between task perceptions and language use in L2 writing: Genre, cognitive task complexity, and linguistic complexity	16
The effects of working memory and L2 proficiency on L2 writing	16
An investigation of the relationship between argument structure and essay quality in assessed writing	16

Task closure and task complexity effects on L2 written performance	16
How error types affect the accuracy of L2 error correction with corpus use	13
A bibliometric analysis on L2 writing in the first 20 years of the 21st century: Research impacts and research trends	12
Variability as predictor in L2 writing proficiency	12
Exploring the relationships among cognitive and linguistic resources, writing processes, and written products in second language writing	12
The effects of AWE and peer feedback on cohesion and coherence in continuation writing	11
ICT-enabled informal learning in EFL writing	10
Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach	10
Video and text feedback on ESL writing: Understanding attitude and negotiating relationships	10
Manipulating texture and cohesion in academic writing: A keystroke logging study	9
English writing pedagogy at the crossroads: The case of Oman	9
“Why can’t writing courses be taught like this fo real”: Leveraging critical language awareness to promote African American Language speakers’ writing skills	9
Writing for scholarly publication in an interconnected disjunctured world	9
The longitudinal development of second language writers’ metacognitive genre awareness	8
Stories behind the scenes: L2 students’ cognitive processes of multimodal composing and traditional writing	8
L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance	7
Emergence of multiple groups of learners with different writing-development trajectories in classroom: Growth mixture modeling	7
Elements of doctoral apprenticeship: Community feedback and the acquisition of writing expertise	7
Verbal and on-screen peer interactions of EFL learners during multimodal collaborative writing: A multiple case-study	7
Postgraduate students’ beliefs about and confidence for academic writing in the field of applied linguistics	7
Tracing EFL writers’ digital literacy practices in asynchronous communication: A multiple-case study	7
The potential power of play in second language academic writing	7
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies	7
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback	6
Socialization into English academic writing practices through out-of-class interaction in individual networks of practice	6
Literacy and literacy practices: Plurilingual connected migrants and emerging literacy	6
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education	5
The semiotics of writing: How adult L2 learners with emergent literacy make meaning in assessment texts through writing	5
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale	5
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled	5
On the disciplinary identity of second language writing	5
Lexical characteristics of young L2 English learners’ narrative writing at the start of formal instruction	4
The assessment of memes as digital multimodal composition in L2 classrooms	4
Development of a test taker-oriented rubric: Exploring its usefulness for test preparation and writing development	4
Multilingual academic genre knowledge: Insights from a mixed-method study of post-graduate students in Kazakhstan	4
Assessing L2 writing in the digital age: Opportunities and challenges	4
L2 collocation profiles and their relationship with vocabulary proficiency: A learner corpus approach	4
Applying big ideas to facilitate reading-writing integration in language classrooms	4
Grasping the effects of storyline complexity, task structure and proficiency in narrative writing performance	4
Writing teacher feedback literacy: Surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, values, and abilities	4
Adult L2 writers with emergent literacy: Writing development and pedagogical considerations	4
Development of copying skills in L2 adult English learners with emergent print literacy	3
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”	3
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes	3
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing	3
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting	3
Writing practices of recently immigrated adolescent emergent writers: A study from a language introductory school in Sweden	3
Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance	3
How do we know (if) it works? A review of research evaluating publishing pedagogies for multilingual writers	3
Book review	3

Brain-bound vs. extended: Contrasting approaches to second-language research writing in digital environments	3
Conflicts in peer interaction of collaborative writing – A case study in an EFL context	3
Mapping metacognitive genre awareness with L1 and L2 writers: Investigating novices’ engagement with an occluded genre	3
Additive extensive reading and syntactic development in second language writing: Analyses of syntactic complexity and sophistication in young EFL learners’ book reports	2
Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing	2
Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples	2
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation	2
Enhancing genre instruction on research proposal introductions with an online academic writing tutor	2
Moral outrage or mere possibility? An exploration of epistemic versus deontic stance in reading-to-write argumentation	2
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing	2
CLA and translingualism: A (literal) scholarly conversation	2
Moroccan immigrants learning Spanish writing (compared with L1 children)	2
Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review	2
Promoting critical language awareness at the graduate-level: A discovery oriented approach	2
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L2	2
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation	2
Using critical language awareness pedagogy to leverage home languages in multilingual South Africa	2
Discoursal scholarly identity in research writing	2
Emergence in teacher writing expertise: Teachers be(com)ing expert	2
A study of co-adaptation through journaling	2
Exploring writing processes in authentic writing tasks: A multimodal mixed-method approach	2
Beyond ChatGPT: Multimodal generative AI for L2 writers	2
The relationship of proficiency to speed fluency, pausing, and eye-gaze behaviours in L2 writing	2
Book review	1
A dynamic usage-based analysis of L2 written complexity development of sojourners	1
Book Review	1
The use of spelling and reference tools in second language writing: Their impact on students’ writing performance and process	1
Exploring the effects of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production	1
The multilingual poetry task: Innovating L2 writing pedagogy in the secondary classroom	1
Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency	1
Peer leadership in collaborative argumentative writing: A qualitative case study of blended design	1
Mapping the intersections of critical language awareness and affective approaches to second language writing	1
CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration	1
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Beyond words: L2 writing teachers’ visual conceptualizations of ChatGPT in teaching and learning	1
Mapping the interactions between task sequencing, anxiety, and enjoyment in L2 writing development	1
The reliability of single task assessment in longitudinal L2 writing research	1
Activity theory as an analytical framework to understand expertise in L2 writing instruction	1
Transpacific telecollaboration and L2 writing: Influences of interpersonal dynamics on peer feedback and revision uptake	1
AI technologies in the ESL/EFL writing classroom: The villain or the champion?	1
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement	1
Book Review	1
Written “corrective” feedback in Spanish as a heritage language: Problematizing the construct of error	1
Book Review	1
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment	1
Genre-related episodes as a lens on students’ emerging genre knowledge: Implications for genre-based writing pedagogy, collaborative tasks, and learning materials	1
AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource	1
Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective	1
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 language	1
Effects of input modality on alignment in continuation writing	1
Introduction to the special issue: Innovation in L2 writing task design	1
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland	1
Expanding the collaborative writing research framework: A longitudinal analysis of how collaborative and independent writers orient to writing spaces	1
Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省	1