Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

Papers
(The H4-Index of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching is 20. 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
Audiovisual input and second language learning402
Language learning playware: a ‘playful learning’ approach to ELT materials development62
Fostering key competency growth: a feedback model for university English teaching61
Introduction: new insights in the study of classroom emotions: innovative research methods for investigating the antecedents and causes of negative emotions in language classrooms54
Escaping the anxious classroom: the exploration of using educational escape rooms to mitigate foreign language anxiety53
Measuring Chinese undergraduate students’ engagement with GenAI feedback in L2 writing: a large-scale study51
Providing emotional support through written feedback: an exploratory study of Chinese EFL teachers39
‘Chinese is at my fingertips’: heritage language practices in digitalscapes34
Less frequently used research methodologies in applied linguistics (Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 6)34
Emerging Englishes: China English in Academic Writing31
Orchestrating ChatGPT in English language teaching: a complex dynamic systems study of teacher agency31
Collocations, corpora and language learning29
Beyond scores: a systematic review of learning and psychological outcomes of digital game-based language learning (2010–2025)27
From retrieval to generative models: a design-based research approach to developing a chatbot for argumentative writing26
Designing pedagogical materials for the multilingual English classroom: a case for teacher agency26
Investigating Chinese undergraduate students’ perception of creative support in the EFL classroom25
Creating bottom-up academic salons for foreign language teacher educators’ career development25
The idiodynamic method in individual differences research: a review of applications and contributions24
Scaffolding the dynamic development of novice EAP writers’ genre knowledge through concept mapping24
OASIS: one resource to widen the reach of research in language studies22
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