Applied Linguistics Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Linguistics Review is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university80
Languages ontologies in higher education: the world-making practices of language teachers61
The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian children’s early bilingual receptive vocabulary development49
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics47
Objects are not just a thing – (re)negotiating identity through using material objects within the Kurdish diaspora in the UK44
“When we use that kind of language… someone is going to jail”: relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters40
Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English33
The cognitive-conceptual, planning-organizational, affective-social and linguistic-discursive affordances of translanguaging33
On the influence of the first language on orthographic competences in German as a second language: a comparative analysis33
Mutual intelligibility of a Kurmanji and a Zazaki dialect spoken in the province of Elazığ, Turkey30
Agentive engagement in intercultural communication by L2 English-speaking international faculty and their L2 English-speaking host colleagues29
The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography27
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters27
Integrating antiracist pedagogy in a Korean EFL classroom: a participatory approach to racial awareness and critical education27
Communicating across educational boundaries: accommodation patterns in adolescents’ online interactions27
Moderation of teacher-student rapport in the link between smartphone addiction and foreign language burnout and its gender difference23
ELF- or NES-oriented pedagogy: enhancing learners’ intercultural communicative competence using a dual teaching model23
Investigating the relationships of writing behaviours to linguistic complexity and accuracy in independent and integrated writing task performance22
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Interactional features in second language classroom discourse: variations across novice and experienced language teachers21
Making sense of trans-translating in blogger subtitling: a netnographic approach to translanguaging on a Chinese microblogging site20
Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China20
“Coffee is no bitter than work”: linguistic landscapes in urban cafés in China20
The perception of gradient acceptability among L1 Polish monolingual and bilingual speakers20
Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study19
Culture machines18
Oral corrective feedback on lexical errors: a systematic review18
Disciplinary tribes and the discourse of mainstream media expert opinion articles: evidencing COVID-19 knowledge claims for a public audience17
Ideologies of teachers and students towards meso-level English-medium instruction policy and translanguaging in the STEM classroom at a Malaysian university17
The early the better? Or, the more the merrier? The relative effects of onset age and exposure hours on EFL learners’ implicit and explicit grammatical attainment17
Cognitive, affective and social dimensions of migration16
Contributions of interaction, growth language mindset, and L2 grit to student engagement in online EFL learning: a mixed-methods approach16
A longitudinal study on lecture listening difficulties and self-regulated learning strategies across different proficiency levels in EMI higher education16
Against epistemological theft and appropriation in applied linguistics research15
Refusing gifts in Chinese: a linguistic analysis integrating interaction ritual, expressions and speech acts15
Paradoxes of the Canadian mosaic: “being, feeling and doing Canadian”15
Africatown in Guangzhou as geosemiotic assemblage: connecting multilingualism, store signs, and chronotopes15
Translanguaging as decoloniality-informed knowledge co-construction: a nexus analysis of an English-Medium-Instruction program in China15
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Developing a taxonomy of teacher emotion labor through metaphor: personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural angles14
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Investigating translanguaging strategies and online self-presentation through internet slang on Douyin (Chinese TikTok)13
Can the subaltern speak in autoethnography?: knowledging through dialogic and retro/intro/pro-spective reflection to stand against epistemic violence13
From translanguaging to transknowledging: decolonizing knowledge production in applied linguistics12
Unequal translanguaging: the affordances and limitations of a translanguaging space for alleviating students’ foreign language anxiety in language classrooms12
As a Muslim…”: on the importance of intercultural responsibility in transnational cultural exchanges12
I ain’t your f*cking Model Minority! Indexical orders of ‘Asianness’, class, and heteronormative masculinity11
“You have to repeat Chinese to mother!”: multilingual identity, emotions, and family language policy in transnational multilingual families11
“I’m human” – multilingual investment of a young adult with a migration journey in Italy11
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Multilingualism, translanguaging, and education in the Vaupés, Northwest Amazonia: dynamics of language use, and language loss11
How to kill two birds with one stone: EMI teachers’ needs in higher education in China11
“Writing-to-learn”: the influence of task repetition on CSL writers’ attention to form11
Multimodal or multilingual? Native English teachers’ engagement with translanguaging in Hong Kong TESOL classrooms10
Genre effects on alignment and writing quality in the continuation task by Chinese EFL learners10
Study abroad experiences in homestay: where complexity, dynamicity, and individuality stay10
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To copy verbatim, paraphrase or summarize – listeners’ methods of discourse representation while recalling academic lectures10
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South10
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China10
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching10
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea: complex and agentive navigation of capital and language ideologies10
Effects of Group Dynamic Assessment on L2 Chinese learners’ literacy development: Learners’ responsiveness to interactive mediation10
Motivation profiles of Chinese rural foreign language learners: link with learning strategy and achievement9
Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models9
“I am surprised they have allowed you in here to do this”: women’s prison writing as heterotopic space of narrative inclusion9
ESL classroom interactions in a translanguaging space9
Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class9
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Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China: an everyday life perspective8
Blaming, controlling, monitoring, and politicizing human-caused environmental disasters: anthropocentric discourses in framing the Ohio train derailment incident8
Using the L1 to disambiguate L2 vocabulary: examining the effects on learning burden and decay with Chinese learners of English8
Platformization, social media, and investing in unequal digital literacy practices8
The neoliberal coloniality of EMI in Hong Kong higher education: insights from online stancetaking8
Attempts at including, mediating and creating ‘new’ knowledges: problematising appropriation in intercultural communication education and research8
Visualising the language practices of lower secondary students: outlines for practice-based models of multilingualism7
Narratives of the self in bilingual speakers: the neurophenomenal space7
Transnational media and English spread in the Expanding Circle: Hollywood’s predominance, language accommodation, and English as an additional language in cinema, television, and video on demand7
Tracking telecollaborative tasks through design, feedback, implementation, and reflection processes in pre-service language teacher education7
Syntactic variation and Pan-Hispanic awareness in teachers of Spanish as a second language7
Building natural language processing tools for Runyakitara7
A systematic review of meta-analyses in second language research: current practices, issues, and recommendations7
Adolescent Korean returnees’ perceptions of the change of language learning contexts as bilingual learners6
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Assessment and creativity through a translingual lens: transdisciplinary insights6
Dr. Juliet Tembe (1954–2016)6
Expectation-practice discrepancies: a transcultural exploration of Chinese students’ oral discourse socialization in German academia6
Immersing learners in English listening classroom: does self-regulated learning instruction make a difference?6
When AI meets intercultural communication: new frontiers, new agendas6
Unraveling the local tapestry: exploring English language learning motivations in Taiwan’s unique cultural landscape6
The role of speaker categorization in South Korean attitudes toward North Korean accents6
Investigation of factors underlying foreign language classroom anxiety in Chinese university English majors6
A study of FL children’s exposure, family backgrounds, and vocabulary learning5
English language teachers’ professionalism on social media: a sociomaterial perspective5
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Expandability and temporality in translanguaging spaces: a space-centred systematic observation of Kongish Daily5
What does translanguaging-for-equity really involve? An interactional analysis of a 9th grade English class5
Platformization of language education5
Introduction: applied linguistics, ethics and aesthetics of encountering the Other5
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Strategic competence, task complexity, and foreign language learners’ speaking performance: a hierarchical linear modelling approach5
Verbal and nonverbal disagreement in an ELF academic discussion task5
The effects of cultural and educational background on students’ use of language learning strategies in CFL learning5
Scholarly discourse: the growth of English for Research Publication Purposes5
Individual versus pair work on L2 speech acts: production and cognitive processes4
The interconnection between teacher motivation and identity construction: an interpretative phenomenological approach4
Blurred lines of participation: nexus analytical tools for reflecting on the roles of researchers and participants in change-oriented research projects4
The effects of task complexity on L2 English rapport-building language use and its relationship with paired speaking test task performance4
Understanding micro-blogging users’ translanguaging in Chinese language play: a qualitative phenomenological approach4
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Language teaching in the 21st century: incorporating culturally sustaining pedagogies for social and cognitive justice in education4
Epistemic injustice and neoliberal imaginations in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy4
Southern multilingualisms and transknowledging: towards restoring plurality in applied linguistics and education4
Relationships between struggling EFL writers’ motivation, self-regulated learning (SRL), and writing competence in Hong Kong primary schools4
The pedagogical remit of test preparation: the case of writing acquisition on an IELTS course4
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Greek Cypriot and immigrant students’ attitudes and perceptions of acculturation, ethnic identity and self-esteem in the Republic of Cyprus4
Tourism, commodification of Dongba script and perceptions of the Naxi minority in the linguistic landscape of Lijiang: a diachronic perspective3
First language loss effect on bilingual autobiographical memory: examining memory phenomenology3
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‘Art as social practice: language and marginality’: Special Issue of Applied Linguistics Review3
Why can’t I teach English? A case study of the racialized experiences of a female Ugandan teacher of English in an EFL context3
Reclaiming the translinguistic selves: collective scholarly practices in translanguaging space3
Transl[iter]ating Dubai’s linguistic landscape: a bilingual translation perspective between English and Arabic against a backdrop of globalisation3
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Uncovering English as a foreign language teacher resilience: a structural equation modeling approach3
Teacher resilience and triple crises: Confucius Institute teachers’ lived experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic3
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The violence of literature review and the imperative to ask new questions3
The incentivisation of English medium instruction in Chinese universities: policy misfires and misalignments3
Translingual practices for critical language awareness in English as an additional language writing education3
The pedagogical potential of speech-language therapy materials for the teaching of idiomatic expressions in a foreign language3
Bilingual education in China: a qualitative synthesis of research on models and perceptions2
Learners’ attitudes to first, second and third languages pronunciation in structuring multilingual identity2
Opening the methodological black box of research synthesis in language education: where are we now and where are we heading?2
Discursive work in resisting stereotypic representations of the Chinese among Chinese students2
L2 English pronunciation instruction: techniques that increase expiratory drive through enhanced use of the abdominal muscles, and transfer of learning2
The role of communities in Uganda’s mother tongue-based education: Perspectives from a literacy learning enhancement project in Arua district2
Walking with: understandings and negotiations of the mundane in research2
I can do it: a positive psychology perspective on the development of self-efficacy in the EFL context2
Creativity, criticality and translanguaging in assessment design: perspectives from Bangladeshi higher education2
Reflexivity as a means to address researcher vulnerabilities2
Primary-concern solicitation in Chinese medical encounters2
A latent profile analysis of L2 writing emotions and their relations to writing buoyancy, motivation and proficiency2
Russian-speaking immigrants’ adaptation in Canada2
Linguistic landscape as mediational means of collective action: a nexus analysis of Covid signs in China2
Emotions matter: the influence of emotional precursors on academic achievement in skill-focused English reading2
Success factors for English as a second language university students’ attainment in academic English language proficiency: exploring the roles of secondary school medium-of-instruction, motivation and2
Modality of input and factors affecting incidental vocabulary learning: reading, listening, and viewing with captions2
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Precarious privilege: identity (re)construction among international students returning to South Korea2
Investigating EFL learners’ reading comprehension processes across multiple choice and short answer tasks2
English medium instruction lecturer within-course linguistic evolution: monitoring changes between STEM lectures2
Epistemological theft and appropriation in qualitative inquiry in applied linguistics: lessons from Halaqa2
Translanguaging in public and digital spaces: integrating telecollaboration to linguistic landscapes studies2
English medium of instruction in Chinese higher education: a systematic mapping review of empirical research2
Sketching the ecology of humor in English language classes: disclosing the determinant factors2
Young children’s language-based agency in multilingual contexts in Luxembourg and Israel2
Gregory Hankoni Kamwendo (1965–2018): a tribute2
Creative translanguaging in formative assessment: Chinese teachers’ perceptions and practices in the primary EFL classroom2
Feedback literacy and student engagement with WCF by beginner JFL learners: a classroom study2
Translanguaging in the linguistic landscape: creative scripts in Yi ethnicity students’ handwritten signs2
Generative AI and the future of writing for publication: insights from applied linguistics journal editors2
Thinking through “in-betweenness”: a conversation with Suresh Canagarajah on decolonizing language education and research in South Asia2
Online Filipino English teachers and the platformization of Japan’s English education2
Exploring Tibetan residents’ everyday language practices in Danba county, Southwest China: a case study2
Towards interculturally adaptive conversational AI1
Becoming response-able with a protest placard: white under(-)standing in encounters with the Black German Other1
Perceived teacher feedback practices, student feedback motivation and engagement in English learning: a survey of Chinese university students1
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Translanguaging as a pedagogy: exploring the use of teachers’ and students’ bilingual repertoires in Chinese language education1
Designing new Korean mothers, daughters-in-law, and wives: an analysis of Korean textbooks for newly arrived marriage migrants in South Korea1
Transnational postgraduate students’ experience of voice and participation1
The Asian American teaching method? An overview of language education, social justice issues, and challenging ‘Oppressed’ versus ‘Model’ minority binary discourse1
Exploring AI for intercultural communication: open conversation1
Translanguaging in self-praise on Chinese social media1
Self-identity construction and pragmatic compensation in a Chinese DAT elder’s discourse1
Searching for the unit of meaning: Knowledge construction in university small group talk1
Motivations to enrol in EMI programmes in China: an exploratory study1
Exploring undergraduate EFL students’ growth in knowledge of elements in argumentation and their writing performance1
The predictive effect of language achievement on multiple emotions in languages other than English: validating a distal mediation model based on the control-value theory1
Observing a teacher’s interactional competence in an ESOL classroom: a translanguaging perspective1
Discursive strategies of self-promotion by doctors in online medical consultations in China: an e-commercialised practice1
Foreign language teacher grit: scale development and examining the relations with emotions and burnout using relative weight analysis1
Enhancing second language motivation and facilitating vocabulary acquisition in an EFL classroom through translanguaging practices1
Medical students’ attention in EFL class: roles of academic expectation stress and quality of sleep1
Towards a sociolinguistics of in difference: stancetaking on others1
Who is our friend and who is our enemy? The enregisterment of tribalising digital discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Meet your new AI teacher: hypes, promises, and realities in AI-powered language education platforms1
Teaching multilingual literacy in Ugandan classrooms: The promise of the African Storybook1
Integrating translanguaging into assessment: students’ responses and perceptions1
An interactional approach to speech acts for applied linguistics1
National belonging and citizenship in an era of globalization and transnational migration: Korean migrant youth in the United States1
Translanguaging as an emotional assessment practice: unveiling Chinese EFL students’ perceptions and experiences1
Epistemic positioning by science students and experts: a divide by applied and pure disciplines1
Early career language teachers’ cognition, practice, and continuous professional development: a scoping review of empirical research1
Chinese university students’ self-regulated writing strategy use and EFL writing performance: influences of self-efficacy, gender, and major1
Choreographing linguistic landscapes in Singapore1
“This topic was inconsiderate of our culture”: Jordanian students’ perceptions of intercultural clashes in IELTS writing tests1
Performing my other self: movement between languages, cultures and societies1
Investigating in-class and after-class boredom among advanced learners of English: intensity, interrelationships and learner profiles1
“Part of me is teaching English”: probing the language-related teaching practices of an English-medium instruction (EMI) teacher1
Transfer of learning, fear of failure, procrastination, and self-efficacy in learning English: Any evidence from the arts?1
Confucius Institute and Confucius Classroom closures: trends, explanations and future directions1
Leveraging mutually shared knowledge through translanguaging in EMI classrooms: combining multimodal conversation analysis with interpretative phenomenological analysis1
Affective geographies and tribal epistemologies: studying abroad during COVID-191
“If you don’t know English, it is like there is something wrong with you.” Students’ views of language(s) in a plurilingual setting1
English as a medium of instruction in Chinese higher education: looking back and looking forward1
“I’m not angry!”: language ideologies, misunderstanding, and marginalization among North Korean refugees in rural South Korea1
Exploring open consonantal environments for at-home testing of vowel perception in advanced L2 speakers1
Chinese phrasal downgraders: a problem for L2 Learners?1
Collaboratively pursuing student uptake of feedback through storytelling: a conversation analytic study of interaction in team doctoral supervision1
Boredom in practical English language classes: a longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis-curve of factors model1
Translanguaging as a decolonising approach: students’ perspectives towards integrating Indigenous epistemology in language teaching1
Facilitating learners’ participation through classroom translanguaging: comparing a translanguaging classroom and a monolingual classroom in Chinese language teaching1
Assessment and creativity through a translingual lens: introduction1
Investigating the role of ideal L2 writing self, writing growth mindset, and writing enjoyment in L2 writing self-efficacy: a mediation model1
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In search of Polish in the multilingual cityscape: analysing the urban spaces of Ealing, London1
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