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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial208
Book Review112
Past JSLW Editor Rosa M. Manchón speaks: Ilona Leki & Tony Silva’s invitation to co-edit the journal—my reflection63
Influence of a perspective oriented task, executive function, and trait perspective taking on EFL Writing57
Generative AI: Same same but different?55
Task repetition and L2 written performance: A meta-analysis55
Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing54
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled50
Book Review48
Book review40
Book review39
Book Review38
Is corrective feedback during telecollaboration beneficial? The effects of peer and teacher corrections on L2 writing proficiency37
The effects of task complexity on second language writing processes and products in computer-assisted collaborative writing35
The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance33
Grammatical complexity: Insights from English for academic purposes teachers30
Editorial Board29
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes28
The development and interactions of complexity and accuracy in L2 Chinese writing28
Editorial Board26
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing26
The gold standard for the teaching profession: A rejoinder26
Book review25
Book review23
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback21
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing19
Editorial Board18
Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance18
Book review17
Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach17
Editorial Board17
CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration17
Book Review16
Editorial Board16
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland16
Book review16
AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments16
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”15
An inquiry into Grammarly’s precision and recall: A comparative study with human annotators15
JSLW editorial for March 202515
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L215
Writing in the AI era: Rethinking writing, research and teaching15
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement14
Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness13
“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers13
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation13
To grade is not to grade?: Exploring ungrading in the teaching of L2 writing13
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies12
What’s in a profile? Investigating linguistic features of L2 writing at advanced CEFR levels12
Translanguaging with generative AI in EFL writing: Students’ practices and perceptions12
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF12
Teachers’ conceptualizations of digital multimodal composing in L2 writing12
Editorial11
Book Review11
Book review11
Scholarly trends and representations of L2 writers in second language writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study11
Book review10
Beyond models: SLW teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and instructional practices with mentor texts10
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing10
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing10
The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing10
The development and validation of a scale on student AI literacy in L2 writing: A domain-specific perspective10
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach9
Second-language writing development of adult immigrants following three study paths reflecting their varying levels of prior education9
Book review8
Book Review8
The effects of completing collaborative or independent writing on the development of language use in individual writing8
The role of communicative purpose in describing and interpreting lexico-grammatical variation in L2 writing8
Introduction to JSLW’s 30th anniversary special issue8
Ungrading as an assessment philosophy: Reliability, validity, and practicality8
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale8
JSLW@30: The founders & past editors speak8
Towards a GELT-informed pedagogy for multilingual writing: Expanding Tardy’s case7
Developing and validating a scale for assessing EFL learners’ co-regulation strategies for collaborative writing: A multi-layered perspective7
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment7
Promoting second language writing autonomy through digital multimodal composing7
The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language7
Book Review6
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing6
Editorial Board6
Towards a reconciliatory approach to ungrading in writing classes: A response to Crusan6
Editorial Board6
Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency6
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation6
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education5
Book Review5
The effects of AWE and peer feedback on cohesion and coherence in continuation writing5
June 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography5
Academic socialization with generative AI: A longitudinal case study of an L2 graduate student’s academic literacies development5
L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance5
Editorial Board5
Book Review5
Book review5
Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective5
Towards a raciolinguistically informed GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing5
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting5
Mapping the interactions between task sequencing, anxiety, and enjoyment in L2 writing development4
A bibliometric analysis on L2 writing in the first 20 years of the 21st century: Research impacts and research trends4
Editorial Board4
Exploring complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: Diversity and sophistication of verb-argument structures in L2 Dutch writing4
AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource4
Book review4
Critical language awareness and cautious transnationalist work4
The use of spelling and reference tools in second language writing: Their impact on students’ writing performance and process4
Secondary school English teachers’ application of artificial intelligence-guided chatbot in the provision of feedback on student writing: An activity theory perspective4
Expertise in second language writing instruction4
Zooming in on the process-product nexus of meaning-related revisions: A micro-analytic approach to keystroke logging data4
March 2025 JSLW Annotated Bibliography3
Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples3
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing3
Book review3
Lexical characteristics of young L2 English learners’ narrative writing at the start of formal instruction3
Book review3
March 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography3
The plurality of English in Global Englishes3
June 2025 JSLW annotated bibliography3
Book review3
Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省3
Book review3
Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review3
Book review3
Source-based writing of the high- and low-proficiency adolescent writer in the high-school L2 classroom3
Book review3
Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing3
Editorial Board2
Book review2
Book review2
Book Review2
Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study2
Book Review2
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing2
Book Review2
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing2
From the Editors: June, 20222
Book review1
Book review1
Stories behind the scenes: L2 students’ cognitive processes of multimodal composing and traditional writing1
Book review1
Navigating complexity in plain English: A longitudinal analysis of syntactic and lexical complexity development in L2 legal writing1
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
Editorial1
Verb argument constructions in argumentative essays by college-level Asian learners of English: Exploring the effects of English proficiency, acquisition context, and topic1
The impact of MT as a writing tool on EFL academic writing: A qualitative linguistic analysis1
Editorial Board1
Multi-dimensional analysis of Japanese native speakers’ L2 Chinese writing1
Developing a feedback framework for English for Research and Publication Purposes (ERPP) in L2 writing1
Using critical language awareness pedagogy to leverage home languages in multilingual South Africa1
Enhancing genre instruction on research proposal introductions with an online academic writing tutor1
Collaborative writing based on generative AI models: Revision and deliberation processes in German as a foreign language1
Book review1
Book review1
Incorporating digital multimodal composition in content teaching: A multimodal analysis of students’ legal popularization videos1
The case for a GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing1
Book review1
Book review1
Expanding the collaborative writing research framework: A longitudinal analysis of how collaborative and independent writers orient to writing spaces1
“Why can’t writing courses be taught like this fo real”: Leveraging critical language awareness to promote African American Language speakers’ writing skills1
Cyclical interplay between L2 writing, WCF processing and rewriting: Explaining modification and consolidation in L2 development1
Text mediation and collaborative meaning-making: Language support for an EAL academic author1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing1
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
Book review1
Testing crowdsourcing as a means of recruitment for the comparative judgement of L2 argumentative essays1
Book review1
The relationship of proficiency to speed fluency, pausing, and eye-gaze behaviours in L2 writing1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing1
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