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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modelling boredom in the EFL context: An investigation of the role of coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and foreign language enjoyment266
Notes on Contributors81
High variability phonetic training facilitates categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in L2 older adults: A link to auditory processing77
Language exposure and English digital reading achievement in East Asia: Examining the role of students’ socioeconomic status73
Exploratory practice puzzling as praxis-oriented pronunciation teacher learning in Australian adult migrant EAL education62
Comparing different L3s and factors that affect motivation to learn LOTEs53
Synchronous computer-mediated communication and task-based learning in the EFL classroom38
Arab Israeli EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices vis-à-vis teaching higher-order thinking skills: A complicated relationship35
Dynamic positioning in identity development: Case studies of Chinese university English language teachers34
The interplay between corrective feedback timing and foreign language anxiety in L2 development33
L1 mediation in Chinese English learners’ mental lexicon: Evidence from word association tests33
Enhancing L2 sound learning through the integration of audio-visual information: Phonetic training in the classroom33
Metalinguistic explanations and their impact on incidental grammar acquisition: An eye-movement study33
The relationships between spoken and written input beyond the classroom and young EFL learners’ proficiency31
Student engagement with teacher oral feedback in EFL university classrooms30
The effects of motivational dispositions on oral L2 task emotions and performance: A regulatory focus perspective30
EMI as a problem, a right or a resource: Exploring misalignments in stakeholders’ views at one university in Taiwan29
Nothing ventured, nothing gained: The impact of enjoyment and boredom on willingness to communicate in online foreign language classrooms27
Performance-based differences in the associations among ideal self, enjoyment, and anxiety: A longitudinal study on L2 integrated writing27
Fluency development in an EFL setting: A one-semester study26
Exploring the relations among foreign language enjoyment, ideal L2 self, grit, and growth mindset in EFL learners: A cross-lagged analysis26
Fluency issues in L2 academic presentations: Linguistic, cognitive and psychological influences on pausing behaviour26
L2 Vocabulary learning from reading: Effects of word-focused activity type, learner variables, and announcement25
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 task23
Researching learners’ perceptions: The use of the repertory grid technique23
Shifting perceptions of inclusive practitioner research: Epistemological affordances of exploratory practice23
Model texts as a feedback instrument in second language writing: A systematic review21
Does writing words in notes contribute to vocabulary learning?21
The effects of proactive form-focused instruction and individual differences on second language acquisition21
Self-efficacy and professional development of Chinese language teachers in North Carolina secondary schools21
Going beyond practicing English: Language alternation in an L2 book club’s Zoom meetings20
Classroom environment and willingness to communicate in English: The mediating role of emotions experienced by university students in China20
Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education19
Professional development for science and engineering professors offering English-medium instruction19
Effects of internal and external attentional manipulations and working memory on second language vocabulary learning18
Providing vs. receiving peer feedback: Learners’ beliefs and experiences18
Examining the perceptions and self-reported practices of L2 teachers in China regarding oral fluency: A conceptual replication and extension18
The differential effect of oral and written corrective feedback on learners’ explicit versus implicit knowledge17
A phenomenographic study of engineering students’ conceptions of learning English as a foreign language17
A serial mediation model testing associations between teacher–student relationship, resilience, autonomous learning and academic performance in the Chinese EFL context17
The effect of the model of contingent teaching on improving Iranian EFL learners’ essay writing17
Effect of L2 exposure, length of study, and L2 proficiency on EFL learners’ receptive knowledge of form–meaning connection and collocations of high-frequency words17
Task modality and language-related episodes in young learners: An attempt to manage accuracy and editing17
Potential influence of extensive reading on controlled productive vocabulary16
Enhancing intercultural communication skills: The impact of drama in Chinese language teaching16
Exploring Chinese higher vocational college teachers’ perceptions of reading and teaching reading in English16
The effect of textual glosses on L2 vocabulary acquisition: A meta-analysis15
Long-term impacts of L1 language skills on L2 anxiety: The mediating role of language aptitude and L2 achievement15
Digitizing the story-writing process for EFL primary learners: An exploratory study15
Can willingness to communicate, communication in English anxiety, behavioural inhibition and behavioural action predict perceived L2 fluency?15
Robotics and Weblog integration into EFL curriculum of middle and secondary schools: Exploratory study14
Constructing and validating the teaching strategies for alleviating Chinese EFL graduate students’ foreign language anxiety14
Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme14
Exploring student engagement in task-based and communicative language classrooms14
Evaluating a task-based language teaching course for low-proficiency learners in ESP classrooms in Japan14
Learning foreign languages: pedagogical tools, emotional understanding and parents’ discourse13
The interplay of glossing with text difficulty and comprehension levels13
Discourses of writing and learning to write in L2 writing curriculum in Chinese universities13
Notes on Contributors13
Reading ability and challenges in a project-based academic report writing course: A test of the threshold hypothesis13
A major change for ESP for nursing: Pivoting towards discourse through a new course design with communicative engagement as a focal concept13
Chinese heritage children learning to read characters: The effects of group reading and frequency of character exposure13
Role-based interaction analysis for FLL: A sociocognitive UBL perspective13
Qualitative research synthesis of project-based (language) learning and teaching in East and Southeast Asia: 2002–2413
Primary school children’s peer interaction: Exploring EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices12
‘May I do something for you?’: The effects of audio-visual material (captioned and non-captioned) on EFL pragmatic learning12
The effects of various combinations of form-focused instruction techniques on the acquisition of English articles by second language learners of English12
Abdominal enhancement techniques for L2 English phoneme pronunciation: Comparing the effectiveness of the techniques for Mandarin and Cantonese speakers12
Design of a dual-hierarchy scaffolding board game-based learning activity for EFL reading comprehension12
Language learners’ stereotypical representations of France: Insights for teaching French as L3 with implications for minority foreign language crisis in China11
The effects of a cognitive linguistic approach on college students’ learning English tenses in Taiwan11
Designing for diversity in Aotearoa / New Zealand Chinese language classrooms11
Deliberate training and incidental learning through the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media: Capitalising on a European tool to enhance visual literacy and intercultu11
The pedagogical content knowledge of two novice Chinese early childhood EFL teachers11
Learners’ behavioral engagement and performance on linguistically difficult L2 reading tasks: The effects of effort feedback, self-efficacy, and attributions11
L2 learners’ mindfulness in relation to their memorization/learning of L2 phrasal verbs11
Longitudinal videoconferencing and confidence development: The impact of perceived interlocutor cultural depth, richness, and self-involvement11
The impact of textual enhancement and frequency manipulation on incidental learning of collocations from reading11
Positive psychology in action: Exploring the role of altruistic teaching in enhancing English reading comprehension among L2 learners10
Comparing the effectiveness of verb-focused and particle-focused exercise formats on the recall and recognition of phrasal verbs10
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
Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic–English learner10
Language achievement predicts anxiety and not the other way around: A cross-lagged panel analysis approach10
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 behaviours10
The role of institutional policy in English language teacher autonomy, agency, and identity: A poststructural perspective10
Teaching second language pragmatics in the current era of globalization: An introduction10
Erratum to Finding success with pedagogical innovation: A case from CSL teachers’ experiences with TBLT10
The impact of future L2 selves and positive emotions on self-regulated writing strategies: A mixed method approach10
Statistical learning of L2 lexical bundles through unimodal, bimodal, and multimodal stimuli10
Factors predicting classroom WTC in English and French as foreign languages among adult learners in Spain9
Parental involvement and children’s L2 learning motivation and engagement: A person-centered approach9
Translating Willingness to Communicate into Learner Talk in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Classroom9
Notes on Contributors9
Unraveling the interplay between social-emotional need satisfaction and self-regulated learning: Longitudinal evidence from university students in China’s EMI programs9
Exploring English language teachers’ beliefs about future readiness: Developing pedagogical practices for the 21st century9
Structured instructional design for integrated language skill development: College students’ perspectives on collaborative reading-to-write activities using a cloud-based tool9
Fluency development through freewriting and transfer to other more structured tasks9
A comparative study of CLIL implementation in upper secondary school in Sweden and students’ development of L2 English academic vocabulary9
Practicing to sing in chorus: Challenges and opportunities of collaborative inquiry-based learning in an Iranian EFL secondary school context9
Evaluating the impact of spaced practice using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on vocabulary learning in the classroom9
A study of the effect of multimodal input on vocabulary acquisition: Evidence from online Chinese language learners9
Psychometric properties of a self-efficacy scale for English language learners in Vietnam8
The limited effects of visual and audio modalities on second language listening comprehension8
Inclusivity and sustainability in language practitioner researcher development: A sociocultural ecological framework8
Collaborative learning between Chinese and international students in an English as a medium of instruction environment: Friend or foe?8
Notes on Contributors8
A comparative analysis of language choices in written peer feedback provided by high- and low-proficiency Japanese EFL students8
Developing a reading proficiency scale for US college-level CSL courses: A complement to the ACTFL guidelines8
A Q method study on Turkish EFL learners’ perspectives on the use of AI tools for writing: Benefits, concerns, and ethics8
Content knowledge attainment in English medium instruction: Does academic English literacy matter?8
Analysing the use of particle verbs in German as a foreign language: Unproductive particle separation and a proposal for a data-driven learning intervention8
Generalizing linguistic patterns through data-driven learning: A study of the dative alternation in Japanese learners of English8
Exploring the role of strategy instruction on learners’ ability to write authentic email requests to faculty8
To impart knowledge or to adhere to policy: Unpacking language ideologies and practices in Chinese EMI courses through a translanguaging lens8
Debate pedagogy as a conducive environment for L2 argumentative essay writing8
Control-value appraisals, academic emotions, and student engagement: A case of Chinese EFL undergraduates8
Scaffolding student engagement with written corrective feedback: Transforming feedback sessions into learning affordances8
The role of teacher knowledge and practice in shaping EFL teachers’ glocal identity8
EFL students’ profiles of English reading self-efficacy: Relations with reading enjoyment, engagement, and performance8
The effects of incidental focus on form on learning vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation7
Notes on Contributors7
Intentional and incidental vocabulary acquisition through multi-component storytelling: The case of German L2 primary school students7
Motivational profiles of EFL learners: A person-centered approach to uncovering gender differences7
Effects of text messaging using digital Pinyin input on literacy skills of elementary school Chinese immersion learners7
Japanese adolescents’ attitudes towards learning English: A perspective from the self-worth theory7
How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: A mixed modelling longitudinal investigation7
English L2 vocabulary acquisition through storytelling for adolescents with and without learning disabilities7
Faith or path? Profiling the motivations of multilingual Chinese as a foreign language teachers using Q methodology7
Becoming teachers of emergent bilinguals: Navigating ideological and identity tensions7
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
The impact of cognate strategy training on guessing accuracy for unknown visually-presented words: The case of Japanese learners of English7
Student teachers’ experience with improvisation activities for spontaneous speech practice in English7
Whose English should be talked and taught? Views from international English teachers in Thai higher education7
Researching language skills and strategies7
Addressing discourse differences in the writing of Russian engineering students and international researchers7
L2 learners’ pragmatic output in a face-to-face vs. a computer-guided role-play task: Implications for TBLT6
Positive emotions and intrinsic motivation: A self-determination theory perspective on using co-created stories in the language acquisition classroom6
A structural relationship model for L2 oral proficiency, L2 interest, perceived importance of speaking, and out-of-class L2 contact6
Effect of pedagogic intervention in enhancing speech fluency by EFL students: A longitudinal study6
Engagement with written corrective feedback: Examination of feedback types and think-aloud protocol as pedagogical interventions6
Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish6
Teacher as creator: Orchestrating the learning environment to promote learner development6
The effect of positive emotion on foreign language teacher engagement and well-being: A cross-cultural comparison6
Impact of exercise format and repetition on learning verb–noun collocations6
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
Lacking bridges and apprehensive tensions: The impact of emotions and contextual factors on German L3 teachers’ perceptions and grammar teaching practices6
EFL learners’ lexical availability: Effect of L1 background and prompt6
Classroom environment and engagement in the EFL writing context: The mediating role of goal orientations6
Measuring listening and speaking self-efficacy in EFL contexts: The development of the Communicative SE Questionnaire6
Moving beyond native-speakerism through identity-based teacher education: The roles of positioning and agency6
Extending the efficacy of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in teaching reading strategies: A socio-cultural emotional perspective6
Developing and validating an L2 writing willingness to communicate scale: A sequential embedded mixed-methods approach6
The auditory picture vocabulary test for English L2: A spoken receptive meaning-recognition test intended for Dutch-speaking L2 learners of English6
The pedagogical and socio-affective dimensions of identity tensions and teacher agency: Case studies of university English teachers teaching online6
Epilogue: Intercultural dialogue, the arts, and (im)possibilities6
Motivation and anxiety in Chinese EFL students’ listening process: An idiodynamic approach6
Online writing instruction: Understanding university EFL instructors’ beliefs and practices as a complex system6
Music as a Medium of Instruction (MMI): A new pedagogical approach to English language teaching for students with and without music training6
Notes on Contributors6
Motivational factors underlying learner preferences for corrective feedback: Language mindsets and achievement goals6
Cognitive vs. metacognitive scaffolding strategies and EFL learners’ listening comprehension development6
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