Language Teaching Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Teaching Research is 2. 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
L1 mediation in Chinese English learners’ mental lexicon: Evidence from word association tests98
Performance-based differences in the associations among ideal self, enjoyment, and anxiety: A longitudinal study on L2 integrated writing91
The interplay between corrective feedback timing and foreign language anxiety in L2 development87
Nothing ventured, nothing gained: The impact of enjoyment and boredom on willingness to communicate in online foreign language classrooms66
Dynamic positioning in identity development: Case studies of Chinese university English language teachers47
Exploratory practice puzzling as praxis-oriented pronunciation teacher learning in Australian adult migrant EAL education44
The effects of motivational dispositions on oral L2 task emotions and performance: A regulatory focus perspective44
Language exposure and English digital reading achievement in East Asia: Examining the role of students’ socioeconomic status41
High variability phonetic training facilitates categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in L2 older adults: A link to auditory processing38
Synchronous computer-mediated communication and task-based learning in the EFL classroom37
Comparing different L3s and factors that affect motivation to learn LOTEs36
Metalinguistic explanations and their impact on incidental grammar acquisition: An eye-movement study35
Enhancing L2 sound learning through the integration of audio-visual information: Phonetic training in the classroom34
Notes on Contributors32
Student engagement with teacher oral feedback in EFL university classrooms31
Modelling boredom in the EFL context: An investigation of the role of coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and foreign language enjoyment30
EMI as a problem, a right or a resource: Exploring misalignments in stakeholders’ views at one university in Taiwan30
The relationships between spoken and written input beyond the classroom and young EFL learners’ proficiency29
To what extent are foreign language anxiety and foreign language enjoyment related to L2 fluency? An investigation of task-specific emotions and breakdown and speed fluency in an oral task27
Fluency development in an EFL setting: A one-semester study27
Model texts as a feedback instrument in second language writing: A systematic review27
Self-efficacy and professional development of Chinese language teachers in North Carolina secondary schools25
Notes on contributors25
Exploring the relations among foreign language enjoyment, ideal L2 self, grit, and growth mindset in EFL learners: A cross-lagged analysis24
Shifting perceptions of inclusive practitioner research: Epistemological affordances of exploratory practice24
The effects of proactive form-focused instruction and individual differences on second language acquisition23
Going beyond practicing English: Language alternation in an L2 book club’s Zoom meetings22
Classroom environment and willingness to communicate in English: The mediating role of emotions experienced by university students in China22
The interplay between foreign language enjoyment and willingness to communicate among tertiary CSL learners: The mediating roles of growth language mindset and classroom environment21
L2 Vocabulary learning from reading: Effects of word-focused activity type, learner variables, and announcement21
Fluency issues in L2 academic presentations: Linguistic, cognitive and psychological influences on pausing behaviour20
The effect of the model of contingent teaching on improving Iranian EFL learners’ essay writing19
Examining the perceptions and self-reported practices of L2 teachers in China regarding oral fluency: A conceptual replication and extension19
Does writing words in notes contribute to vocabulary learning?19
Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education19
A phenomenographic study of engineering students’ conceptions of learning English as a foreign language18
Self-initiated foreign language listening outside class: A mixed-methods investigation of learners’ motivation and their perceptions through self-determination theory18
A serial mediation model testing associations between teacher–student relationship, resilience, autonomous learning and academic performance in the Chinese EFL context17
Enhancing intercultural communication skills: The impact of drama in Chinese language teaching17
Long-term impacts of L1 language skills on L2 anxiety: The mediating role of language aptitude and L2 achievement17
Robotics and Weblog integration into EFL curriculum of middle and secondary schools: Exploratory study17
Task modality and language-related episodes in young learners: An attempt to manage accuracy and editing17
A sociocultural analysis of teacher language assessment literacy development: Stories from a novice Vietnamese English-as-a-foreign-language teacher17
Exploring Chinese higher vocational college teachers’ perceptions of reading and teaching reading in English16
Effect of L2 exposure, length of study, and L2 proficiency on EFL learners’ receptive knowledge of form–meaning connection and collocations of high-frequency words16
Potential influence of extensive reading on controlled productive vocabulary15
Exploring student engagement in task-based and communicative language classrooms15
A major change for ESP for nursing: Pivoting towards discourse through a new course design with communicative engagement as a focal concept14
The differential effect of oral and written corrective feedback on learners’ explicit versus implicit knowledge14
Role-based interaction analysis for FLL: A sociocognitive UBL perspective14
Chinese heritage children learning to read characters: The effects of group reading and frequency of character exposure14
Evaluating a task-based language teaching course for low-proficiency learners in ESP classrooms in Japan14
Notes on Contributors13
Design of a dual-hierarchy scaffolding board game-based learning activity for EFL reading comprehension13
The effects of various combinations of form-focused instruction techniques on the acquisition of English articles by second language learners of English13
Emotional incongruence enhances English vocabulary acquisition from instructional videos13
Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme13
Learning foreign languages: pedagogical tools, emotional understanding and parents’ discourse13
Qualitative research synthesis of project-based (language) learning and teaching in East and Southeast Asia: 2002–2413
Discourses of writing and learning to write in L2 writing curriculum in Chinese universities12
L2 learners’ mindfulness in relation to their memorization/learning of L2 phrasal verbs12
Deliberate training and incidental learning through the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media: Capitalising on a European tool to enhance visual literacy and intercultu12
Reading ability and challenges in a project-based academic report writing course: A test of the threshold hypothesis12
Effect of L2 motivation on use behavior of translation technologies among English-related majors: Mediating effects of performance expectancy and L2 grit12
A latent profile analysis of self-regulated reading-to-write and writing strategies, and their relations to motivation and achievement12
The impact of textual enhancement and frequency manipulation on incidental learning of collocations from reading12
‘May I do something for you?’: The effects of audio-visual material (captioned and non-captioned) on EFL pragmatic learning12
Constructing and validating the teaching strategies for alleviating Chinese EFL graduate students’ foreign language anxiety12
The pedagogical content knowledge of two novice Chinese early childhood EFL teachers12
Advancing language education: Insights into teacher cognition, learner engagement, and skill development12
Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic–English learner11
Teaching second language pragmatics in the current era of globalization: An introduction11
Language learners’ stereotypical representations of France: Insights for teaching French as L3 with implications for minority foreign language crisis in China11
Positive psychology in action: Exploring the role of altruistic teaching in enhancing English reading comprehension among L2 learners11
The effects of a cognitive linguistic approach on college students’ learning English tenses in Taiwan11
Primary school children’s peer interaction: Exploring EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices11
Learners’ behavioral engagement and performance on linguistically difficult L2 reading tasks: The effects of effort feedback, self-efficacy, and attributions11
Comparing the effectiveness of verb-focused and particle-focused exercise formats on the recall and recognition of phrasal verbs11
LexPro: A plurilingual lexical profiling tool to assist teachers and researchers in analysing vocabulary of L2 input11
Designing for diversity in Aotearoa / New Zealand Chinese language classrooms11
Parental involvement and children’s L2 learning motivation and engagement: A person-centered approach10
A third-wave positive psychology approach to language teachers’ self-efficacy, self-concept, and motivation10
The impact of future L2 selves and positive emotions on self-regulated writing strategies: A mixed method approach10
The limited effects of visual and audio modalities on second language listening comprehension10
The role of institutional policy in English language teacher autonomy, agency, and identity: A poststructural perspective10
Notes on Contributors10
Fluency development through freewriting and transfer to other more structured tasks10
Statistical learning of L2 lexical bundles through unimodal, bimodal, and multimodal stimuli10
Longitudinal videoconferencing and confidence development: The impact of perceived interlocutor cultural depth, richness, and self-involvement10
Implementation of an integrated intercultural literary pedagogy intervention in Spanish-as-a-foreign-language classrooms in the Netherlands: An effect study at the secondary level10
To impart knowledge or to adhere to policy: Unpacking language ideologies and practices in Chinese EMI courses through a translanguaging lens9
Exploring English language teachers’ beliefs about future readiness: Developing pedagogical practices for the 21st century9
A comparative study of CLIL implementation in upper secondary school in Sweden and students’ development of L2 English academic vocabulary9
Structured instructional design for integrated language skill development: College students’ perspectives on collaborative reading-to-write activities using a cloud-based tool9
Practicing to sing in chorus: Challenges and opportunities of collaborative inquiry-based learning in an Iranian EFL secondary school context9
Accuracy and response-time effects of structured input on the acquisition of English passive and active constructions: A self-paced reading study of native and non-native processing behaviours9
A study of the effect of multimodal input on vocabulary acquisition: Evidence from online Chinese language learners9
A Q method study on Turkish EFL learners’ perspectives on the use of AI tools for writing: Benefits, concerns, and ethics9
Translating Willingness to Communicate into Learner Talk in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Classroom8
Developing a reading proficiency scale for US college-level CSL courses: A complement to the ACTFL guidelines8
Whose English should be talked and taught? Views from international English teachers in Thai higher education8
The role of teacher knowledge and practice in shaping EFL teachers’ glocal identity8
Generalizing linguistic patterns through data-driven learning: A study of the dative alternation in Japanese learners of English8
Evaluating the impact of spaced practice using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on vocabulary learning in the classroom8
Debate pedagogy as a conducive environment for L2 argumentative essay writing8
Inclusivity and sustainability in language practitioner researcher development: A sociocultural ecological framework8
A comparative analysis of language choices in written peer feedback provided by high- and low-proficiency Japanese EFL students8
Exploring the role of strategy instruction on learners’ ability to write authentic email requests to faculty8
Factors predicting classroom WTC in English and French as foreign languages among adult learners in Spain8
Unraveling the interplay between social-emotional need satisfaction and self-regulated learning: Longitudinal evidence from university students in China’s EMI programs8
Analysing the use of particle verbs in German as a foreign language: Unproductive particle separation and a proposal for a data-driven learning intervention8
English L2 vocabulary acquisition through storytelling for adolescents with and without learning disabilities8
Control-value appraisals, academic emotions, and student engagement: A case of Chinese EFL undergraduates8
Motivational profiles of EFL learners: A person-centered approach to uncovering gender differences7
EFL students’ profiles of English reading self-efficacy: Relations with reading enjoyment, engagement, and performance7
Becoming teachers of emergent bilinguals: Navigating ideological and identity tensions7
The pedagogical and socio-affective dimensions of identity tensions and teacher agency: Case studies of university English teachers teaching online7
The effects of incidental focus on form on learning vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation7
The impact of cognate strategy training on guessing accuracy for unknown visually-presented words: The case of Japanese learners of English7
Content knowledge attainment in English medium instruction: Does academic English literacy matter?7
Notes on Contributors7
How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: A mixed modelling longitudinal investigation7
How effective is task-based language teaching to enhance second language learning? A technical comment on Bryfonski and McKay (2019)7
The auditory picture vocabulary test for English L2: A spoken receptive meaning-recognition test intended for Dutch-speaking L2 learners of English7
L2 learners’ pragmatic output in a face-to-face vs. a computer-guided role-play task: Implications for TBLT7
Intentional and incidental vocabulary acquisition through multi-component storytelling: The case of German L2 primary school students7
Japanese adolescents’ attitudes towards learning English: A perspective from the self-worth theory7
Foreign language teaching anxiety between pre-service and in-service English teachers: A psychological network analysis7
Fostering pre-service teachers’ perceived ability to implement dialogic teaching in Turkey: Examining the contributing factors of an intensive short-term teacher education program from the teacher-lea7
Faith or path? Profiling the motivations of multilingual Chinese as a foreign language teachers using Q methodology7
Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish6
Developing and validating an L2 writing willingness to communicate scale: A sequential embedded mixed-methods approach6
Notes on Contributors6
Classroom environment and engagement in the EFL writing context: The mediating role of goal orientations6
Automated detection of machine translation use in L2 Spanish writing6
Measuring listening and speaking self-efficacy in EFL contexts: The development of the Communicative SE Questionnaire6
Teacher as creator: Orchestrating the learning environment to promote learner development6
Engagement with written corrective feedback: Examination of feedback types and think-aloud protocol as pedagogical interventions6
Addressing discourse differences in the writing of Russian engineering students and international researchers6
Effect of pedagogic intervention in enhancing speech fluency by EFL students: A longitudinal study6
Does engagement with feedback matter? Unveiling the impact of learner engagement and grit on EFL learners’ English writing achievements6
A structural relationship model for L2 oral proficiency, L2 interest, perceived importance of speaking, and out-of-class L2 contact6
Positive emotions and intrinsic motivation: A self-determination theory perspective on using co-created stories in the language acquisition classroom6
EFL learners’ lexical availability: Effect of L1 background and prompt6
The effect of positive emotion on foreign language teacher engagement and well-being: A cross-cultural comparison6
Moving beyond native-speakerism through identity-based teacher education: The roles of positioning and agency6
Lacking bridges and apprehensive tensions: The impact of emotions and contextual factors on German L3 teachers’ perceptions and grammar teaching practices6
Effects of text messaging using digital Pinyin input on literacy skills of elementary school Chinese immersion learners6
Online writing instruction: Understanding university EFL instructors’ beliefs and practices as a complex system6
Cultivating the linguistic garden: Exploring the pedagogical approaches and challenges in teaching Maltese as a second language to international adults6
Music as a Medium of Instruction (MMI): A new pedagogical approach to English language teaching for students with and without music training6
Enhancing Korean as a foreign language learning through a mobile-assisted blended course: A triarchic and motivational perspective6
AI chatbot-assisted vocabulary learning: Relationships with self-regulation, motivation, and performance among Chinese private college students5
The structural relationships among L2 motivation, out-of-class informal learning, and oral proficiency: A multiple-group structural equation modeling study5
Perceived autonomy support and structure in predicting students’ academic emotions during second language learning: The mediating role of self-efficacy5
Language learning activities in the Spanish L2 classroom related to a task-based framework: What types are the most commonly occurring according to Swedish learners?5
The perceived usefulness of pedagogical genres in EMI settings: A learner-informed comparative analysis of Engineering and Economics courses5
How language proficiency and peer familiarity shape engagement with feedback in English as a Foreign Language writing5
Task repetition versus task rehearsal: Understanding effects of task-readiness factors and elemental genres on L2 writing task performance5
Task repetition and corrective feedback via models and direct corrections among young EFL writers: Draft quality and task motivation5
Motivation and anxiety in Chinese EFL students’ listening process: An idiodynamic approach5
The role of diagnostic writing assessment in promoting Chinese EFL students’ learning autonomy: An action research study5
Notes on contributors5
Effectiveness of written corrective feedback in developing L2 accuracy: A Bayesian meta-analysis5
First-year writing in the humanities and social sciences: Requirements, expectations, and perceived weaknesses5
The effects of task complexity and task repetition on sense-aware frequency-based lexical sophistication indices in L2 writing5
Effectiveness of interventions on improving English language learners’ intelligibility and comprehensibility: A meta-analytic review5
A mixed methods approach to exploring grammar learning strategies in self-regulation task phases: Evidence from grounded theory and regression analysis5
Exploring learner engagement with languages (LX) within and beyond the English classroom5
Use of the L1 and L2 in strategic planning and rehearsal for task performances in an online classroom5
A self-regulation perspective on L2 grit development and its impact on language achievement5
Emotional intelligence and second/foreign language achievement: A meta-analytic review5
Longitudinal study of Spanish vowel acquisition by Australian students5
Learner agency and potential for creativity in writing task design and Chinese EFL students’ flow experiences in writing: A contextual perspective5
Exploring Hungarian secondary school English teachers’ beliefs about differentiated instruction5
Meta-analysis to estimate the relative effectiveness of TBLT programs: Are we there yet?5
Effects of teacher intervention and type of peer feedback on student writing revision5
The effects of flipped classroom approach in EFL teaching: Can we strategically use the flipped method to acquire communicative competence?5
Applying intelligent personal assistants to develop fluency and comprehensibility, and reduce accentedness in EFL learners: an empirical study of Google Assistant5
Why motivated learners might not engage in language learning: An exploratory interview study of language learners and teachers4
Constructing professional identity as novice TESOL teachers in a Gulf state4
Towards necessities and challenges of implementing translanguaging pedagogy in secondary EFL education in China4
Examining EFL learners’ source text use in summary writing4
L2 vocabulary learning in a mixed-proficiency community-engaged program: Designing vocabulary instruction for college students4
Improving second language vocabulary learning and retention by leveraging memory enhancement techniques: A multidomain pedagogical approach4
The associations between individual differences in language aptitude and working memory, and the effectiveness of input and output based instruction4
A posthumanist orientation and cross-national, online bilingual digital storytelling4
Textbook authors’ perspectives on selecting and instructing Chinese characters and words in beginner and intermediate textbooks4
Exposure or age? The effect of additional CLIL instruction on young learners’ grammatical complexity while performing an oral task4
Teachers’ cognition and classroom implementation of tasks in task-supported language teaching (TSLT)4
An investigation into English majors’ self-regulated writing strategies in an online learning context4
Students’ performance and English as a medium of instruction: Do students learn less?4
‘This is a Chinese vegetable’: Language socialization in dinner table conversations of Chinese immigrant families in the U.S.4
Unpacking the negative side-effects of directed motivational currents in L2: An interpretative phenomenological analysis4
The role of modality and working memory capacity in L2 production4
Communication and the student experience in the time of Covid-19: An autoethnography4
Exploring the role of individual psychological and work-related contextual factors in language teachers’ well-being4
EFL learners’ versus instructors’ attributions of success and failure factors: A complexity theory perspective4
Developing crosslinguistic awareness through plurilingual consciousness-raising tasks4
Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in teaching Chinese pronunciation4
Introducing a new protagonist in L2 Chinese narratives: Syntactic construction and information organization4
Learning specialized vocabulary in the second language: Does transfer from the first language help?4
Achievement goals, emotions and willingness to communicate in EFL learning: Combining variable- and person-centered approaches4
The effect of task-based peer interaction and pre-task instruction on young EFL learners’ explicit and implicit knowledge of past tense: An intervention study4
The influence of Exploratory Practice (EP): How a group of former Brazilian ELT teacher-learners perceive the value of EP years after graduation4
Greater complexity and higher efficiency: Effects of translanguaging during collaborative pre-task planning on EFL learners’ speaking performance4
A systematic review of computer-mediated communications in Chinese as a foreign language from 2008 to 2022: Research contexts, theoretical foundations and methodology, affordances and limitations4
The impact of altruism on the emotions and English summary writing skills of L2 learners: An intervention study in light of positive psychology4
A holistic perspective on the contribution of foreign language peace of mind, enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom to EFL learners’ willingness to communicate: The mediating role of engagement4
Post-beginner L2-learner knowledge of ultra-frequent English words4
‘Are we really back to normal?’: A qualitative study on language teachers’ teaching practices during the post-COVID-19 era4
Investigating the potential of changing the smartphone system language to L2 for facilitating vocabulary learning and motivation4
Modelling the effects of the reading medium on L2 Spanish reading emotions: The moderating role of individual difference variables4
Multiple perspectives of stakeholders towards young learners’ language assessment in an international school in Malaysia3
The effects of two methods of on-line planning on L2 task-based speaking performance and strategy use3
Language learning aptitude as a predictor of late-life L2 learning at beginner level3
‘Un futuro mejor para todos’: Towards a critical humanizing English language teaching3
Notes on Contributors3
Arabic speech intelligibility: Perception of spoken Arabic by native and non-native speakers3
Notes on contributors3
Notes on contributors3
Identity tensions of in-service teacher educators: A narrative inquiry3
Effects of task complexity, task sequence, and interlocutor familiarity on Chinese EFL learners’ self-repair in synchronous online interaction3
Embodied enactment of a hypothetical scenario in an English medium instruction secondary mathematics classroom: A translanguaging approach3
Gamifying English Language Learning through Interactive Storytelling and MALL Technologies3
The multifaceted function of rubrics as formative assessment tools: A classroom-based action research in an L2 writing context3
Tapping into teacher feedback in digital storytelling: Learning outcomes, emotions, and perceptions3
Teaching methods emphasizing phonological forms enhance L2 vocabulary learning3
Teaching humorous irony to L2 and heritage speakers of Spanish3
Investigating grit in second language learning: The role of individual difference factors and background variables3
Differing conceptions of a teaching approach in the activity system of a Japanese university language center3
Greater coverage vs. deeper processing? Comparing individual and collaborative processing of teacher feedback3
‘That was crazy’: Confronting monolingual ideologies and courting translanguaging in international telecollaboration3
Students’ display of willingness to participate in an extensive reading book club3
Pre-service English language teachers’ perceptions and motivation towards technology use in online education3
Exploring the silence of Japanese EFL learners: Its relationship with the degree of willingness to communicate (WTC)3
Notes on Contributors3
Empowering EFL learners through cognitive apprenticeship: A pathway to success in IELTS speaking proficiency3
Some language learners don’t want help: Self-efficacy and teacher support in primary school foreign language classrooms3
Language learning strategies used by EFL students: Does their digital fluency matter?3
Exploring systematic orthographic crosslinguistic similarities to enhance foreign language vocabulary learning3
Notes on Contributors3
An activity theory perspective on Vietnamese preservice English teachers’ identity construction in relation to tensions, emotion and agency3
Notes on Contributors3
L2 Spanish vocabulary teaching in US universities: Instructors’ beliefs and reported practices3
The lexical profile of online graded reading materials in English language teaching: A corpus-based study3
Empowering critical digital literacy in EFL: Teachers’ evaluation of didactic materials involving the recognition of presupposed information3
How do L2 English readers approach proper names?3
Rethinking the language-teacher knowledge base: Exploring core pedagogical content competencies in Korean public secondary-school language teachers3
How does repetition affect vocabulary learning through listening to the teacher’s explicit instruction? The moderating role of listening proficiency and preexisting vocabulary knowledge3
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