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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Language exposure and English digital reading achievement in East Asia: Examining the role of students’ socioeconomic status123
Metalinguistic explanations and their impact on incidental grammar acquisition: An eye-movement study90
Notes on Contributors76
EMI as a problem, a right or a resource: Exploring misalignments in stakeholders’ views at one university in Taiwan55
Dynamic positioning in identity development: Case studies of Chinese university English language teachers53
Navigating pronunciation instruction in Japan and South Korea: Insights from Spanish and Portuguese teaching and learning49
A comparative study of Spanish discourse marker use among Chinese learners: associations with language proficiency and study abroad experience47
Synchronous computer-mediated communication and task-based learning in the EFL classroom45
The interplay between corrective feedback timing and foreign language anxiety in L2 development42
Comparing different L3s and factors that affect motivation to learn LOTEs40
Unraveling the effects of task type and proficiency level on second language learner engagement39
The effects of machine translation (MT) use on the writing quality and perceptions of L2 writers across proficiency levels: A longitudinal examination39
Modelling boredom in the EFL context: An investigation of the role of coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and foreign language enjoyment38
Enhancing L2 sound learning through the integration of audio-visual information: Phonetic training in the classroom35
The relationships between spoken and written input beyond the classroom and young EFL learners’ proficiency35
Performance-based differences in the associations among ideal self, enjoyment, and anxiety: A longitudinal study on L2 integrated writing32
Approaches to Boost Foreign Language Learners’ Positive Emotions: A Qualitative Study on Learners’ and Teachers’ Perspectives in the Modern Foreign Language Context in England32
High variability phonetic training facilitates categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in L2 older adults: A link to auditory processing31
Exploratory practice puzzling as praxis-oriented pronunciation teacher learning in Australian adult migrant EAL education28
Nothing ventured, nothing gained: The impact of enjoyment and boredom on willingness to communicate in online foreign language classrooms27
The effects of motivational dispositions on oral L2 task emotions and performance: A regulatory focus perspective27
Self-efficacy and professional development of Chinese language teachers in North Carolina secondary schools26
Notes on contributors26
Noticing, models, written recasts, the sociocognitive-transformative approach, and EFL writing: Complexity, accuracy, and fluency26
The interplay between foreign language enjoyment and willingness to communicate among tertiary CSL learners: The mediating roles of growth language mindset and classroom environment26
Exploring the relationship between mindfulness and second language writing anxiety in the Bangladeshi EFL context, considering gender and proficiency level26
From Strategy Awareness to Engagement: Self-Regulated Learning Strategies-Based Writing Instruction in L2 Essay Development25
Behind the mask: Using a drama-based English-as-a-foreign-language program to explore and develop second-language identity and motivation in a Japanese undergraduate context25
Going beyond practicing English: Language alternation in an L2 book club’s Zoom meetings24
L2 Vocabulary learning from reading: Effects of word-focused activity type, learner variables, and announcement24
Shifting perceptions of inclusive practitioner research: Epistemological affordances of exploratory practice24
Model texts as a feedback instrument in second language writing: A systematic review22
Exploring the relations among foreign language enjoyment, ideal L2 self, grit, and growth mindset in EFL learners: A cross-lagged analysis22
Conceptualizing and enhancing student engagement through technology: Perspectives from foreign language teachers in Estonia21
Fluency issues in L2 academic presentations: Linguistic, cognitive and psychological influences on pausing behaviour21
Classroom environment and willingness to communicate in English: The mediating role of emotions experienced by university students in China21
Outcome-Based Language Teaching in EMI Listening: Balancing Accountability With Ungraded Supports for Low-Proficiency Learners21
From Class Crowds to Virtual Clouds: How does Cloud-Mediated Collaboration Resonate with EFL Learners’ Macro- and Micro-Writing Skills and Motivation?20
Multisensory teaching for second-language acquisition of voicing stop consonants: Integrating auditory, visual, and tactile cues20
Exploring the roles of language aptitude and L2 grit in L2 achievement: Mediation of foreign language learning boredom20
A serial mediation model testing associations between teacher–student relationship, resilience, autonomous learning and academic performance in the Chinese EFL context20
How do first-language in-text repeated glosses in second-language reading influence novel words processing and learning outcomes beyond effects of occurrence frequency?20
Effects of using data-driven and generative AI-assisted instructions on learning multiword constructions in written academic English19
Examining the perceptions and self-reported practices of L2 teachers in China regarding oral fluency: A conceptual replication and extension19
‘It’ll be real German, but German with a little twist’: Teaching and learning about dialects in the study abroad classroom18
Exploring the effects of teaching word families on the vocabulary learning of L1 Chinese EFL adolescents: A mixed-methods study18
The effects of personal experience narrative writing on EFL learners’ narrative competence development18
Self-initiated foreign language listening outside class: A mixed-methods investigation of learners’ motivation and their perceptions through self-determination theory18
Mobile-assisted seamless Chinese vocabulary learning: learners’ perspectives on lexical variety, engagement, and challenges17
A phenomenographic study of engineering students’ conceptions of learning English as a foreign language16
The impact of graded readers on Kazakh language acquisition: Quasi-experimental evidence16
A sociocultural analysis of teacher language assessment literacy development: Stories from a novice Vietnamese English-as-a-foreign-language teacher16
‘My speech becomes just a voice, a picture’: Exploring language anxiety in Chinese as a second language learning in online environments16
The differential effect of oral and written corrective feedback on learners’ explicit versus implicit knowledge15
Effect of L2 exposure, length of study, and L2 proficiency on EFL learners’ receptive knowledge of form–meaning connection and collocations of high-frequency words15
Exploring Chinese higher vocational college teachers’ perceptions of reading and teaching reading in English15
Corrigendum to “Working memory, L2 proficiency, and L2 speech performance across different task types”15
Potential influence of extensive reading on controlled productive vocabulary15
Enhancing intercultural communication skills: The impact of drama in Chinese language teaching15
Exploring student engagement in task-based and communicative language classrooms15
Constructing and validating the teaching strategies for alleviating Chinese EFL graduate students’ foreign language anxiety14
Optimal Spacing for Types of Word Knowledge During Word Pair Learning14
Emotional incongruence enhances English vocabulary acquisition from instructional videos14
The Effectiveness of Multilingual Versus Monolingual Approaches to L2 Teaching and Learning: A Meta-Analysis of Learning Outcomes14
Reading ability and challenges in a project-based academic report writing course: A test of the threshold hypothesis13
When ChatGPT gets it wrong: investigating third position repair by L2 learners at varying proficiency levels13
Exploring teacher mediation and learner responsiveness in small-group online dynamic assessment for L2 academic writing development13
Effect of L2 motivation on use behavior of translation technologies among English-related majors: Mediating effects of performance expectancy and L2 grit13
Language teacher stress and growth during trauma throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating roles of resilience and well-being13
Chinese heritage children learning to read characters: The effects of group reading and frequency of character exposure13
Evaluating a task-based language teaching course for low-proficiency learners in ESP classrooms in Japan13
Language Education as a Complex System: Insights from Current Research13
A major change for ESP for nursing: Pivoting towards discourse through a new course design with communicative engagement as a focal concept13
Notes on Contributors13
The effects of various combinations of form-focused instruction techniques on the acquisition of English articles by second language learners of English13
Navigating Neoliberal Demands: Linguistic Entrepreneurship Among EMI Students in a Non-Elite Chinese University12
Design of a dual-hierarchy scaffolding board game-based learning activity for EFL reading comprehension12
Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme12
Qualitative research synthesis of project-based (language) learning and teaching in East and Southeast Asia: 2002–2412
L2 learners’ mindfulness in relation to their memorization/learning of L2 phrasal verbs12
Beyond the interface: Supporting beginner-level CEFR mediation and learner autonomy with ChatGPT12
Transforming Traditional Translation Training: The Role of Policy, Practice, and Institutional Support in Student Skill Enhancement12
Discourses of writing and learning to write in L2 writing curriculum in Chinese universities12
Can linguistic landscape enhance students’ foreign language enjoyment and learning through self-efficacy? Moderating role of language policy11
Integrated feedback as networked activity: A systematic review of multi-source feedback in ESL/EFL writing through an activity theory lens11
Advancing language education: Insights into teacher cognition, learner engagement, and skill development11
Language learners’ stereotypical representations of France: Insights for teaching French as L3 with implications for minority foreign language crisis in China11
Exploring the effect of metaphor awareness-raising instruction on L2 learners’ acquisition of requests: Application of computer-animated production tasks for evaluation11
The effects of a cognitive linguistic approach on college students’ learning English tenses in Taiwan10
Positive psychology in action: Exploring the role of altruistic teaching in enhancing English reading comprehension among L2 learners10
Social class, generative AI, and the negotiation of unequal digital literacies10
The role of institutional policy in English language teacher autonomy, agency, and identity: A poststructural perspective10
LexPro: A plurilingual lexical profiling tool to assist teachers and researchers in analysing vocabulary of L2 input10
Asynchronous multiple interpretation (AMI): Expanding temporal dimensions in qualitative data analysis10
Sequence makes a difference: Effects of differential blended instructions on English word stress identification by Chinese teenager learners10
Comparing the effectiveness of verb-focused and particle-focused exercise formats on the recall and recognition of phrasal verbs10
A latent profile analysis of self-regulated reading-to-write and writing strategies, and their relations to motivation and achievement10
Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic–English learner10
Longitudinal videoconferencing and confidence development: The impact of perceived interlocutor cultural depth, richness, and self-involvement10
Embarking on Virtual Exchange for English as a Multilingua Franca Context: Comparing Virtual Reality and Non-Virtual Reality Approaches to Enhance Second Language Speaking Fluency9
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
Less is more: Developing and validating the short scale for investigating L2 boredom beyond the classroom9
Primary school children’s peer interaction: Exploring EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices9
Designing for diversity in Aotearoa / New Zealand Chinese language classrooms9
An optimality-theoretic analysis of Iraqi EFL students’ production of English plural forms9
Learners’ behavioral engagement and performance on linguistically difficult L2 reading tasks: The effects of effort feedback, self-efficacy, and attributions9
The impact of future L2 selves and positive emotions on self-regulated writing strategies: A mixed method approach9
Notes on Contributors9
Structured instructional design for integrated language skill development: College students’ perspectives on collaborative reading-to-write activities using a cloud-based tool9
Exploring the use of GenAI in model texts as a feedback instrument: L2 students’ practice and perceptions9
The impact of textual enhancement and frequency manipulation on incidental learning of collocations from reading9
Notes on Contributors8
Unraveling the interplay between social-emotional need satisfaction and self-regulated learning: Longitudinal evidence from university students in China’s EMI programs8
Integrating digital tools in task design: Insights from primary school EFL teachers8
Statistical learning of L2 lexical bundles through unimodal, bimodal, and multimodal stimuli8
Evaluating the impact of spaced practice using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on vocabulary learning in the classroom8
A study of the effect of multimodal input on vocabulary acquisition: Evidence from online Chinese language learners8
Feedback explicitness, working memory, and explicit knowledge in online classroom-based second language Mandarin tone learning8
Preservice English language teacher self-efficacy in Türkiye: A cross-sectional analysis8
Parental involvement and children’s L2 learning motivation and engagement: A person-centered approach8
A third-wave positive psychology approach to language teachers’ self-efficacy, self-concept, and motivation8
Practicing to sing in chorus: Challenges and opportunities of collaborative inquiry-based learning in an Iranian EFL secondary school context8
The impact of the production-oriented approach on L2 Motivational Self System and academic achievement among Chinese English majors8
Implementation of an integrated intercultural literary pedagogy intervention in Spanish-as-a-foreign-language classrooms in the Netherlands: An effect study at the secondary level8
Generalizing linguistic patterns through data-driven learning: A study of the dative alternation in Japanese learners of English7
Control-value appraisals, academic emotions, and student engagement: A case of Chinese EFL undergraduates7
Inclusivity and sustainability in language practitioner researcher development: A sociocultural ecological framework7
Oral Fluency Characteristics of Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners Across Different Educational Stages7
Learner perceptions of multiculturalism in English language classrooms: A novel ecological framework7
Language mixing as a pedagogical tool for language learning: a methods development guide7
Comparing Teacher and Artificial Intelligence Scoring in Writing Assessment: A Generalizability Theory Analysis7
Strategically Informed Machine Translation Post-Editing: Enhancing Translation Performance among Intermediate Chinese EFL Learners7
Developing a reading proficiency scale for US college-level CSL courses: A complement to the ACTFL guidelines7
Analysing the use of particle verbs in German as a foreign language: Unproductive particle separation and a proposal for a data-driven learning intervention7
EFL students’ profiles of English reading self-efficacy: Relations with reading enjoyment, engagement, and performance7
A comparative analysis of language choices in written peer feedback provided by high- and low-proficiency Japanese EFL students7
Pronunciation for Less Commonly Taught Languages: Teaching Beliefs and Practices7
Exploring English language teachers’ beliefs about future readiness: Developing pedagogical practices for the 21st century7
A Q method study on Turkish EFL learners’ perspectives on the use of AI tools for writing: Benefits, concerns, and ethics7
To impart knowledge or to adhere to policy: Unpacking language ideologies and practices in Chinese EMI courses through a translanguaging lens7
The role of teacher knowledge and practice in shaping EFL teachers’ glocal identity7
English L2 vocabulary acquisition through storytelling for adolescents with and without learning disabilities7
Whose English should be talked and taught? Views from international English teachers in Thai higher education7
Classroom Relationship Profiles: Links with English-as-a-Foreign-Language Students’ Academic and Social Goals and Self-Regulated Learning Strategy Use7
Content knowledge attainment in English medium instruction: Does academic English literacy matter?7
Translating Willingness to Communicate into Learner Talk in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Classroom7
Debate pedagogy as a conducive environment for L2 argumentative essay writing7
Culturally Adaptive Teaching in One-to-One Live Online Chinese Language Instruction: A Cross-Cultural Study of Learner Engagement and Learning Outcomes7
The auditory picture vocabulary test for English L2: A spoken receptive meaning-recognition test intended for Dutch-speaking L2 learners of English6
Can teacher feedback dispel the shadow of test anxiety over English achievement? The Dual-Mode Hypothesis6
Notes on Contributors6
A tale of two studies: How language proficiency and learner dispositions in online learning shape EMI academic success before, during, and after the pandemic6
EFL learners’ lexical availability: Effect of L1 background and prompt6
Notes on Contributors6
Becoming teachers of emergent bilinguals: Navigating ideological and identity tensions6
Retraction Notice: “An ecological exploration of the intersection between English language teachers’ agency and social justice instruction”6
English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers’ engagement with assessment in higher education: An ethnographic case study6
How effective is task-based language teaching to enhance second language learning? A technical comment on Bryfonski and McKay (2019)6
Distributional patterns and functional characteristics of multiword units: a comparative analysis of reading and listening input in Chinese university EFL textbooks6
Does engagement with feedback matter? Unveiling the impact of learner engagement and grit on EFL learners’ English writing achievements6
Classroom environment and engagement in the EFL writing context: The mediating role of goal orientations6
The effects of incidental focus on form on learning vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation6
Demystifying positive second language writing experience: The role of writing self-efficacy and motivational dynamics6
Exploring EFL learners’ emotions: A comparative study of cooperative podcast creation and general language learning6
Translanguaging through performance: Comparative repetition pedagogy in Arabic–English university EFL classrooms6
Foreign language teaching anxiety between pre-service and in-service English teachers: A psychological network analysis6
Motivational profiles of EFL learners: A person-centered approach to uncovering gender differences6
Lacking bridges and apprehensive tensions: The impact of emotions and contextual factors on German L3 teachers’ perceptions and grammar teaching practices6
Cultivating the linguistic garden: Exploring the pedagogical approaches and challenges in teaching Maltese as a second language to international adults6
The pedagogical and socio-affective dimensions of identity tensions and teacher agency: Case studies of university English teachers teaching online6
L2 learners’ pragmatic output in a face-to-face vs. a computer-guided role-play task: Implications for TBLT6
Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish5
Teacher as creator: Orchestrating the learning environment to promote learner development5
Classroom strategies for promoting cultural inclusion in adult ESOL classrooms with refugee and migrant learners in the UK5
Bridging the research–pedagogy gap: ESL teachers’ beliefs about L2 fluency and fluency-enhancing classroom practices5
Engagement with written corrective feedback: Examination of feedback types and think-aloud protocol as pedagogical interventions5
Developing and validating an L2 writing willingness to communicate scale: A sequential embedded mixed-methods approach5
First-year writing in the humanities and social sciences: Requirements, expectations, and perceived weaknesses5
Teacher feedback beliefs and practices in Cambodian EFL classrooms: grammar first or student first?5
The Role of Autonomy-Supportive Teaching in Academic Achievement and Learning Anxiety: Evidence From Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language5
The effect of positive emotion on foreign language teacher engagement and well-being: A cross-cultural comparison5
Online writing instruction: Understanding university EFL instructors’ beliefs and practices as a complex system5
Positive emotions and intrinsic motivation: A self-determination theory perspective on using co-created stories in the language acquisition classroom5
Negotiating agency and emotional wellbeing in AI-infused ELT practicum: A qualitative study of pre-service teachers’ lived experiences5
Moving beyond native-speakerism through identity-based teacher education: The roles of positioning and agency5
EFL Learners’ behavioral engagement with teacher written corrective feedback: The effect of patterns of dyadic interaction5
The perceived usefulness of pedagogical genres in EMI settings: A learner-informed comparative analysis of Engineering and Economics courses5
Effectiveness of a combined intervention using prior knowledge strategies to improve reading comprehension in Grade 2 deaf and hard-of-hearing students whose first language is Saudi sign language5
Automated detection of machine translation use in L2 Spanish writing5
A comparative exploration of proximity and interaction strategies in customary and online English-as-a-foreign-language classrooms5
Working memory, L2 proficiency, and L2 speech performance across different task types5
Enhancing Korean as a foreign language learning through a mobile-assisted blended course: A triarchic and motivational perspective5
Not the Artificial Intelligence, but the Sequence: Instructional Design and Oral Communication Strategy Development5
Task repetition versus task rehearsal: Understanding effects of task-readiness factors and elemental genres on L2 writing task performance5
Effect of pedagogic intervention in enhancing speech fluency by EFL students: A longitudinal study5
Teaching, learning, and teacher development5
Meta-analysis to estimate the relative effectiveness of TBLT programs: Are we there yet?4
The effects of task complexity and task repetition on sense-aware frequency-based lexical sophistication indices in L2 writing4
Exploring learner engagement with languages (LX) within and beyond the English classroom4
Investigating the potential of changing the smartphone system language to L2 for facilitating vocabulary learning and motivation4
Teachers’ cognition and classroom implementation of tasks in task-supported language teaching (TSLT)4
Preparing preservice English teachers to teach digital literacies: Toward a GenAI-supported digital multimodal composing approach4
Navigating the remote language classroom: Exploring teacher adaptation and student outcomes during COVID-194
When Teacher Enthusiasm Meets Student Engagement: The Reciprocal Role of Perceived Learning Value in the Second Language Classroom4
The structural relationships among L2 motivation, out-of-class informal learning, and oral proficiency: A multiple-group structural equation modeling study4
Post-beginner L2-learner knowledge of ultra-frequent English words4
Effectiveness of written corrective feedback in developing L2 accuracy: A Bayesian meta-analysis4
A self-regulation perspective on L2 grit development and its impact on language achievement4
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?4
‘Are we really back to normal?’: A qualitative study on language teachers’ teaching practices during the post-COVID-19 era4
Exploring Hungarian secondary school English teachers’ beliefs about differentiated instruction4
Learner agency and potential for creativity in writing task design and Chinese EFL students’ flow experiences in writing: A contextual perspective4
How language proficiency and peer familiarity shape engagement with feedback in English as a Foreign Language writing4
Modelling the effects of the reading medium on L2 Spanish reading emotions: The moderating role of individual difference variables4
L2 English Pronunciation Motivation among Spanish Young Learners: A Focus on CLIL and Gender4
Why motivated learners might not engage in language learning: An exploratory interview study of language learners and teachers4
Talk, tech, and transformation: accountable discourse and generative AI in East Asian EMI classrooms4
The impact of altruism on the emotions and English summary writing skills of L2 learners: An intervention study in light of positive psychology4
Emotional intelligence and second/foreign language achievement: A meta-analytic review4
Exposure or age? The effect of additional CLIL instruction on young learners’ grammatical complexity while performing an oral task4
Bridging language teachers’ AI literacy and AI-induced emotions: A systematic review and a framework for future research4
The role of diagnostic writing assessment in promoting Chinese EFL students’ learning autonomy: An action research study4
Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in teaching Chinese pronunciation4
Applying intelligent personal assistants to develop fluency and comprehensibility, and reduce accentedness in EFL learners: an empirical study of Google Assistant4
AI chatbot-assisted vocabulary learning: Relationships with self-regulation, motivation, and performance among Chinese private college students4
Perceived autonomy support and structure in predicting students’ academic emotions during second language learning: The mediating role of self-efficacy4
Can grit be perceived and regulated? A mixed-methods exploration of English learners’ metacognitive awareness of grit and its impact on achievement and self-efficacy4
Culture clash chronicles: Unveiling language learners' intercultural competence through critical incident tasks4
A posthumanist orientation and cross-national, online bilingual digital storytelling4
Online second language learner engagement: A systematic review of conceptual frameworks, research methods, and key findings4
Can ChatGPT score ESL writing? A correlation analysis between teacher and GenAI scores4
Constructing professional identity as novice TESOL teachers in a Gulf state4
The associations between individual differences in language aptitude and working memory, and the effectiveness of input and output based instruction4
Notes on contributors4
Applying Thinking Fast and Slow to Explore Question-Posing and Gameplay Flow in Learning Chinese Classical Literacy4
Development and validation of the Short-Form Foreign Language Classroom Boredom Scale (S-FLCBS)4
Longitudinal study of Spanish vowel acquisition by Australian students4
Introducing a new protagonist in L2 Chinese narratives: Syntactic construction and information organization4
Motivation and anxiety in Chinese EFL students’ listening process: An idiodynamic approach4
Embodied enactment of a hypothetical scenario in an English medium instruction secondary mathematics classroom: A translanguaging approach3
Understanding EFL teachers’ wellbeing: An activity theoretic perspective3
Mediating oral communication with ChatGPT: a sociocultural and technology acceptance perspective in ESL classrooms3
Doing Digital Multimodal Composing with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Towards an Integrated Critical Digital Literacies Model3
Empowering critical digital literacy in EFL: Teachers’ evaluation of didactic materials involving the recognition of presupposed information3
Participatory action research with additional language teachers: A methodological review3
How do L2 English readers approach proper names?3
Exploring the silence of Japanese EFL learners: Its relationship with the degree of willingness to communicate (WTC)3
A Diachronic Investigation of Individual Differences and Writing Quality in Data-Driven Learning3
Effects of task complexity, task sequence, and interlocutor familiarity on Chinese EFL learners’ self-repair in synchronous online interaction3
Pre-service English language teachers’ perceptions and motivation towards technology use in online education3
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