Journal of Second Language Writing

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial266
Past JSLW Editor Rosa M. Manchón speaks: Ilona Leki & Tony Silva’s invitation to co-edit the journal—my reflection148
Influence of a perspective oriented task, executive function, and trait perspective taking on EFL Writing108
Book Review75
Generative AI: Same same but different?75
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled65
Task repetition and L2 written performance: A meta-analysis63
Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing55
Book Review54
Grammatical complexity: Insights from English for academic purposes teachers53
Book Review51
Book review47
Book review43
Is corrective feedback during telecollaboration beneficial? The effects of peer and teacher corrections on L2 writing proficiency42
The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance42
The effects of task complexity on second language writing processes and products in computer-assisted collaborative writing41
Editorial Board39
Pre-task planning in L2 writing: Does generative AI assistance make a difference?33
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing33
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing32
The gold standard for the teaching profession: A rejoinder31
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes29
The development and interactions of complexity and accuracy in L2 Chinese writing29
Book review28
Book review27
Editorial Board22
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback22
Editorial Board21
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland21
Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach21
CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration20
AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments20
Editorial Board19
Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance19
Book Review19
JSLW editorial for March 202517
Book review17
An inquiry into Grammarly’s precision and recall: A comparative study with human annotators17
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L216
Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness16
Writing in the AI era: Rethinking writing, research and teaching16
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement16
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”16
“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers16
To grade is not to grade?: Exploring ungrading in the teaching of L2 writing15
Translanguaging with generative AI in EFL writing: Students’ practices and perceptions15
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation15
Teachers’ conceptualizations of digital multimodal composing in L2 writing14
Editorial14
What’s in a profile? Investigating linguistic features of L2 writing at advanced CEFR levels14
Book review13
Book Review13
Scholarly trends and representations of L2 writers in second language writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study13
Beyond models: SLW teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and instructional practices with mentor texts13
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies12
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing12
The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing12
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF12
Second-language writing development of adult immigrants following three study paths reflecting their varying levels of prior education12
The development and validation of a scale on student AI literacy in L2 writing: A domain-specific perspective12
Book review12
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing11
Ungrading as an assessment philosophy: Reliability, validity, and practicality10
The effects of completing collaborative or independent writing on the development of language use in individual writing10
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach10
Book review10
Book Review10
Direct and indirect data-driven learning: An experimental study of that-complementation10
JSLW@30: The founders & past editors speak10
Developing and validating a scale for assessing EFL learners’ co-regulation strategies for collaborative writing: A multi-layered perspective9
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment9
Towards a GELT-informed pedagogy for multilingual writing: Expanding Tardy’s case9
Introduction to JSLW’s 30th anniversary special issue9
Editorial Board8
The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language8
Editorial Board8
Negotiating writer identity and investment among EFL undergraduate students: Insights from reflections on becoming writers8
The role of communicative purpose in describing and interpreting lexico-grammatical variation in L2 writing8
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing8
Book Review8
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale8
Promoting second language writing autonomy through digital multimodal composing8
Book Review7
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation7
Towards a raciolinguistically informed GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing7
L2 teachers’ foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA) in AI-enhanced writing classrooms: A phenomenological nested ecosystem model7
Editorial Board7
Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency7
Book Review7
June 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography6
The effects of AWE and peer feedback on cohesion and coherence in continuation writing6
Editorial Board6
Book Review6
L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance6
Towards a reconciliatory approach to ungrading in writing classes: A response to Crusan6
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting6
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education6
Book review6
Editorial Board5
Critical language awareness and cautious transnationalist work5
Exploring complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: Diversity and sophistication of verb-argument structures in L2 Dutch writing5
Mapping the interactions between task sequencing, anxiety, and enjoyment in L2 writing development5
Academic socialization with generative AI: A longitudinal case study of an L2 graduate student’s academic literacies development5
Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective5
AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource5
Zooming in on the process-product nexus of meaning-related revisions: A micro-analytic approach to keystroke logging data5
A bibliometric analysis on L2 writing in the first 20 years of the 21st century: Research impacts and research trends5
Expertise in second language writing instruction5
Book review5
The use of spelling and reference tools in second language writing: Their impact on students’ writing performance and process5
Secondary school English teachers’ application of artificial intelligence-guided chatbot in the provision of feedback on student writing: An activity theory perspective5
Book review4
March 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography4
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing4
June 2025 JSLW annotated bibliography4
Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples4
Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review4
March 2025 JSLW Annotated Bibliography4
Source-based writing of the high- and low-proficiency adolescent writer in the high-school L2 classroom4
The plurality of English in Global Englishes4
Book review4
Book Review3
Book Review3
Book review3
Modeling human-AI collaboration in EFL academic writing: Hidden Markov model and process mining approach3
JSLW Editorial for June 20263
Book review3
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing3
Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing3
Book review3
Lexical characteristics of young L2 English learners’ narrative writing at the start of formal instruction3
Editorial Board3
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing3
Book review3
Book review3
Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省3
Echoes of syntax: Exploring the interplay between syntactic complexity in reading and writing3
Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study2
Editorial2
Verb argument constructions in argumentative essays by college-level Asian learners of English: Exploring the effects of English proficiency, acquisition context, and topic2
Book Review2
The case for a GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing2
The dynamic development of linguistic complexity in advanced Chinese learners’ L2 writing2
Incorporating digital multimodal composition in content teaching: A multimodal analysis of students’ legal popularization videos2
Exploring EFL learners’ engagement and draft quality in a multi-stage expository writing task using model texts as a feedback facilitator: A mixed-methods study2
Book Review2
Western-trained Vietnamese teachers’ EFL writing instruction: A collaborative autoethnography of tensions, emotion, and agency from an activity theoretical perspective2
Book review2
Stories behind the scenes: L2 students’ cognitive processes of multimodal composing and traditional writing2
Conflicts in peer interaction of collaborative writing – A case study in an EFL context1
Book Review1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing1
Book review1
Book review1
Book review1
Developing a feedback framework for English for Research and Publication Purposes (ERPP) in L2 writing1
Exploring linguistic characteristics across CEFR writing levels and their relationships with student backgrounds1
Book review1
Book review1
The neural correlates of pausing behaviours in L2 writing1
Peer leadership in collaborative argumentative writing: A qualitative case study of blended design1
The relationship of proficiency to speed fluency, pausing, and eye-gaze behaviours in L2 writing1
Expanding the collaborative writing research framework: A longitudinal analysis of how collaborative and independent writers orient to writing spaces1
Book Review1
Using critical language awareness pedagogy to leverage home languages in multilingual South Africa1
Text mediation and collaborative meaning-making: Language support for an EAL academic author1
Enhancing genre instruction on research proposal introductions with an online academic writing tutor1
Book review1
The impact of MT as a writing tool on EFL academic writing: A qualitative linguistic analysis1
Editorial1
Brain-bound vs. extended: Contrasting approaches to second-language research writing in digital environments1
Book review1
Editorial Board1
Navigating complexity in plain English: A longitudinal analysis of syntactic and lexical complexity development in L2 legal writing1
Collaborative writing based on generative AI models: Revision and deliberation processes in German as a foreign language1
Multi-dimensional analysis of Japanese native speakers’ L2 Chinese writing1
Cyclical interplay between L2 writing, WCF processing and rewriting: Explaining modification and consolidation in L2 development1
Testing crowdsourcing as a means of recruitment for the comparative judgement of L2 argumentative essays1
Writing teacher feedback literacy: Surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, values, and abilities1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing1
“Why can’t writing courses be taught like this fo real”: Leveraging critical language awareness to promote African American Language speakers’ writing skills1
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