Language Teaching Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Language Teaching Research is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Language exposure and English digital reading achievement in East Asia: Examining the role of students’ socioeconomic status111
Metalinguistic explanations and their impact on incidental grammar acquisition: An eye-movement study73
Notes on Contributors70
Enhancing L2 sound learning through the integration of audio-visual information: Phonetic training in the classroom64
EMI as a problem, a right or a resource: Exploring misalignments in stakeholders’ views at one university in Taiwan48
Performance-based differences in the associations among ideal self, enjoyment, and anxiety: A longitudinal study on L2 integrated writing48
Student engagement with teacher oral feedback in EFL university classrooms48
Nothing ventured, nothing gained: The impact of enjoyment and boredom on willingness to communicate in online foreign language classrooms41
Dynamic positioning in identity development: Case studies of Chinese university English language teachers39
The relationships between spoken and written input beyond the classroom and young EFL learners’ proficiency38
A comparative study of Spanish discourse marker use among Chinese learners: associations with language proficiency and study abroad experience37
Navigating pronunciation instruction in Japan and South Korea: Insights from Spanish and Portuguese teaching and learning37
Synchronous computer-mediated communication and task-based learning in the EFL classroom37
The interplay between corrective feedback timing and foreign language anxiety in L2 development35
Comparing different L3s and factors that affect motivation to learn LOTEs32
Modelling boredom in the EFL context: An investigation of the role of coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and foreign language enjoyment32
The effects of motivational dispositions on oral L2 task emotions and performance: A regulatory focus perspective31
High variability phonetic training facilitates categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in L2 older adults: A link to auditory processing29
Unraveling the effects of task type and proficiency level on second language learner engagement27
Exploratory practice puzzling as praxis-oriented pronunciation teacher learning in Australian adult migrant EAL education26
The effects of machine translation (MT) use on the writing quality and perceptions of L2 writers across proficiency levels: A longitudinal examination26
Notes on contributors26
Noticing, models, written recasts, the sociocognitive-transformative approach, and EFL writing: Complexity, accuracy, and fluency24
Exploring the relationship between mindfulness and second language writing anxiety in the Bangladeshi EFL context, considering gender and proficiency level24
Conceptualizing and enhancing student engagement through technology: Perspectives from foreign language teachers in Estonia24
Self-efficacy and professional development of Chinese language teachers in North Carolina secondary schools23
Shifting perceptions of inclusive practitioner research: Epistemological affordances of exploratory practice23
Exploring the relations among foreign language enjoyment, ideal L2 self, grit, and growth mindset in EFL learners: A cross-lagged analysis23
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 context22
The interplay between foreign language enjoyment and willingness to communicate among tertiary CSL learners: The mediating roles of growth language mindset and classroom environment22
Classroom environment and willingness to communicate in English: The mediating role of emotions experienced by university students in China21
Going beyond practicing English: Language alternation in an L2 book club’s Zoom meetings21
Model texts as a feedback instrument in second language writing: A systematic review21
L2 Vocabulary learning from reading: Effects of word-focused activity type, learner variables, and announcement21
The effect of the model of contingent teaching on improving Iranian EFL learners’ essay writing21
Fluency issues in L2 academic presentations: Linguistic, cognitive and psychological influences on pausing behaviour21
From Strategy Awareness to Engagement: Self-Regulated Learning Strategies-Based Writing Instruction in L2 Essay Development21
A phenomenographic study of engineering students’ conceptions of learning English as a foreign language20
How do first-language in-text repeated glosses in second-language reading influence novel words processing and learning outcomes beyond effects of occurrence frequency?19
A sociocultural analysis of teacher language assessment literacy development: Stories from a novice Vietnamese English-as-a-foreign-language teacher19
Effects of using data-driven and generative AI-assisted instructions on learning multiword constructions in written academic English18
A serial mediation model testing associations between teacher–student relationship, resilience, autonomous learning and academic performance in the Chinese EFL context18
Exploring the roles of language aptitude and L2 grit in L2 achievement: Mediation of foreign language learning boredom18
The effects of personal experience narrative writing on EFL learners’ narrative competence development17
Mobile-assisted seamless Chinese vocabulary learning: learners’ perspectives on lexical variety, engagement, and challenges17
Self-initiated foreign language listening outside class: A mixed-methods investigation of learners’ motivation and their perceptions through self-determination theory17
Exploring the effects of teaching word families on the vocabulary learning of L1 Chinese EFL adolescents: A mixed-methods study17
‘It’ll be real German, but German with a little twist’: Teaching and learning about dialects in the study abroad classroom17
Exploring Chinese higher vocational college teachers’ perceptions of reading and teaching reading in English16
Examining the perceptions and self-reported practices of L2 teachers in China regarding oral fluency: A conceptual replication and extension16
‘My speech becomes just a voice, a picture’: Exploring language anxiety in Chinese as a second language learning in online environments16
Enhancing intercultural communication skills: The impact of drama in Chinese language teaching15
Long-term impacts of L1 language skills on L2 anxiety: The mediating role of language aptitude and L2 achievement15
Exploring student engagement in task-based and communicative language classrooms15
The impact of graded readers on Kazakh language acquisition: Quasi-experimental evidence15
The differential effect of oral and written corrective feedback on learners’ explicit versus implicit knowledge15
Potential influence of extensive reading on controlled productive vocabulary15
Corrigendum to “Working memory, L2 proficiency, and L2 speech performance across different task types”15
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
Emotional incongruence enhances English vocabulary acquisition from instructional videos14
Design of a dual-hierarchy scaffolding board game-based learning activity for EFL reading comprehension14
Notes on Contributors14
Language teacher stress and growth during trauma throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating roles of resilience and well-being14
A major change for ESP for nursing: Pivoting towards discourse through a new course design with communicative engagement as a focal concept14
Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme14
Beyond the interface: Supporting beginner-level CEFR mediation and learner autonomy with ChatGPT14
Exploring teacher mediation and learner responsiveness in small-group online dynamic assessment for L2 academic writing development14
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
Discourses of writing and learning to write in L2 writing curriculum in Chinese universities13
The effects of various combinations of form-focused instruction techniques on the acquisition of English articles by second language learners of English13
Effect of L2 motivation on use behavior of translation technologies among English-related majors: Mediating effects of performance expectancy and L2 grit13
Qualitative research synthesis of project-based (language) learning and teaching in East and Southeast Asia: 2002–2412
Optimal Spacing for Types of Word Knowledge During Word Pair Learning12
Constructing and validating the teaching strategies for alleviating Chinese EFL graduate students’ foreign language anxiety12
Evaluating a task-based language teaching course for low-proficiency learners in ESP classrooms in Japan12
L2 learners’ mindfulness in relation to their memorization/learning of L2 phrasal verbs12
Chinese heritage children learning to read characters: The effects of group reading and frequency of character exposure12
Exploring the effect of metaphor awareness-raising instruction on L2 learners’ acquisition of requests: Application of computer-animated production tasks for evaluation12
Can linguistic landscape enhance students’ foreign language enjoyment and learning through self-efficacy? Moderating role of language policy11
Positive psychology in action: Exploring the role of altruistic teaching in enhancing English reading comprehension among L2 learners11
LexPro: A plurilingual lexical profiling tool to assist teachers and researchers in analysing vocabulary of L2 input11
Asynchronous multiple interpretation (AMI): Expanding temporal dimensions in qualitative data analysis11
Advancing language education: Insights into teacher cognition, learner engagement, and skill development11
A latent profile analysis of self-regulated reading-to-write and writing strategies, and their relations to motivation and achievement11
The impact of textual enhancement and frequency manipulation on incidental learning of collocations from reading11
Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic–English learner10
Language learners’ stereotypical representations of France: Insights for teaching French as L3 with implications for minority foreign language crisis in China10
The role of institutional policy in English language teacher autonomy, agency, and identity: A poststructural perspective10
Integrated feedback as networked activity: A systematic review of multi-source feedback in ESL/EFL writing through an activity theory lens10
Learners’ behavioral engagement and performance on linguistically difficult L2 reading tasks: The effects of effort feedback, self-efficacy, and attributions10
Comparing the effectiveness of verb-focused and particle-focused exercise formats on the recall and recognition of phrasal verbs10
Longitudinal videoconferencing and confidence development: The impact of perceived interlocutor cultural depth, richness, and self-involvement10
The impact of future L2 selves and positive emotions on self-regulated writing strategies: A mixed method approach10
Less is more: Developing and validating the short scale for investigating L2 boredom beyond the classroom10
The effects of a cognitive linguistic approach on college students’ learning English tenses in Taiwan10
Sequence makes a difference: Effects of differential blended instructions on English word stress identification by Chinese teenager learners10
Exploring the use of GenAI in model texts as a feedback instrument: L2 students’ practice and perceptions10
Primary school children’s peer interaction: Exploring EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices10
Designing for diversity in Aotearoa / New Zealand Chinese language classrooms10
Structured instructional design for integrated language skill development: College students’ perspectives on collaborative reading-to-write activities using a cloud-based tool9
Translating Willingness to Communicate into Learner Talk in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Classroom9
Parental involvement and children’s L2 learning motivation and engagement: A person-centered approach9
Notes on Contributors9
Practicing to sing in chorus: Challenges and opportunities of collaborative inquiry-based learning in an Iranian EFL secondary school context9
An optimality-theoretic analysis of Iraqi EFL students’ production of English plural forms9
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
Feedback explicitness, working memory, and explicit knowledge in online classroom-based second language Mandarin tone learning9
Unraveling the interplay between social-emotional need satisfaction and self-regulated learning: Longitudinal evidence from university students in China’s EMI programs9
Implementation of an integrated intercultural literary pedagogy intervention in Spanish-as-a-foreign-language classrooms in the Netherlands: An effect study at the secondary level9
Exploring English language teachers’ beliefs about future readiness: Developing pedagogical practices for the 21st century9
Social class, generative AI, and the negotiation of unequal digital literacies9
Integrating digital tools in task design: Insights from primary school EFL teachers9
Evaluating the impact of spaced practice using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on vocabulary learning in the classroom8
Notes on Contributors8
The impact of the production-oriented approach on L2 Motivational Self System and academic achievement among Chinese English majors8
Debate pedagogy as a conducive environment for L2 argumentative essay writing8
The limited effects of visual and audio modalities on second language listening comprehension8
To impart knowledge or to adhere to policy: Unpacking language ideologies and practices in Chinese EMI courses through a translanguaging lens8
Statistical learning of L2 lexical bundles through unimodal, bimodal, and multimodal stimuli8
Preservice English language teacher self-efficacy in Türkiye: A cross-sectional analysis8
Developing a reading proficiency scale for US college-level CSL courses: A complement to the ACTFL guidelines8
Analysing the use of particle verbs in German as a foreign language: Unproductive particle separation and a proposal for a data-driven learning intervention8
A third-wave positive psychology approach to language teachers’ self-efficacy, self-concept, and motivation8
A Q method study on Turkish EFL learners’ perspectives on the use of AI tools for writing: Benefits, concerns, and ethics8
A study of the effect of multimodal input on vocabulary acquisition: Evidence from online Chinese language learners8
Language mixing as a pedagogical tool for language learning: a methods development guide8
Whose English should be talked and taught? Views from international English teachers in Thai higher education8
Inclusivity and sustainability in language practitioner researcher development: A sociocultural ecological framework7
Notes on Contributors7
Demystifying positive second language writing experience: The role of writing self-efficacy and motivational dynamics7
English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers’ engagement with assessment in higher education: An ethnographic case study7
Content knowledge attainment in English medium instruction: Does academic English literacy matter?7
English L2 vocabulary acquisition through storytelling for adolescents with and without learning disabilities7
Motivational profiles of EFL learners: A person-centered approach to uncovering gender differences7
Foreign language teaching anxiety between pre-service and in-service English teachers: A psychological network analysis7
Distributional patterns and functional characteristics of multiword units: a comparative analysis of reading and listening input in Chinese university EFL textbooks7
Effects of text messaging using digital Pinyin input on literacy skills of elementary school Chinese immersion learners7
Control-value appraisals, academic emotions, and student engagement: A case of Chinese EFL undergraduates7
A comparative analysis of language choices in written peer feedback provided by high- and low-proficiency Japanese EFL students7
The role of teacher knowledge and practice in shaping EFL teachers’ glocal identity7
EFL students’ profiles of English reading self-efficacy: Relations with reading enjoyment, engagement, and performance7
Addressing discourse differences in the writing of Russian engineering students and international researchers7
The auditory picture vocabulary test for English L2: A spoken receptive meaning-recognition test intended for Dutch-speaking L2 learners of English7
Learner perceptions of multiculturalism in English language classrooms: A novel ecological framework7
Generalizing linguistic patterns through data-driven learning: A study of the dative alternation in Japanese learners of English7
Exploring EFL learners’ emotions: A comparative study of cooperative podcast creation and general language learning6
A tale of two studies: How language proficiency and learner dispositions in online learning shape EMI academic success before, during, and after the pandemic6
L2 learners’ pragmatic output in a face-to-face vs. a computer-guided role-play task: Implications for TBLT6
Becoming teachers of emergent bilinguals: Navigating ideological and identity tensions6
Enhancing Korean as a foreign language learning through a mobile-assisted blended course: A triarchic and motivational perspective6
Translanguaging through performance: Comparative repetition pedagogy in Arabic–English university EFL classrooms6
Retraction Notice: “An ecological exploration of the intersection between English language teachers’ agency and social justice instruction”6
The impact of cognate strategy training on guessing accuracy for unknown visually-presented words: The case of Japanese learners of English6
The effects of incidental focus on form on learning vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation6
The pedagogical and socio-affective dimensions of identity tensions and teacher agency: Case studies of university English teachers teaching online6
Teacher as creator: Orchestrating the learning environment to promote learner development6
Faith or path? Profiling the motivations of multilingual Chinese as a foreign language teachers using Q methodology6
Can teacher feedback dispel the shadow of test anxiety over English achievement? The Dual-Mode Hypothesis6
How effective is task-based language teaching to enhance second language learning? A technical comment on Bryfonski and McKay (2019)6
Does engagement with feedback matter? Unveiling the impact of learner engagement and grit on EFL learners’ English writing achievements6
Notes on Contributors6
Moving beyond native-speakerism through identity-based teacher education: The roles of positioning and agency6
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