OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why am I learning English? Spanish EFL sports science university students´ motivational orientations through the prism of the L2 motivational self system	136
Unraveling EMI as a predictor of English proficiency in Vietnamese higher education: Exploring learners’ backgrounds as a variable	58
A person-specific perspective on the dynamics of anxiety in foreign language learning: A dynamic P-technique factor analysis	54
Language learners’ emotion regulation and enjoyment in an online collaborative writing program	45
Editorial	34
Translanguaging in a Chinese university CLIL classroom: Teacher strategies and student attitudes	32
Second language psychological speaking and listening needs: Scale development, symbiosis, and demographic differences	31
Models as written corrective feedback: Effects on young L2 learners’ fluency in digital writing from product and process perspectives	31
Revisiting the relationship between global and specific levels of foreign language boredom and language engagement: A moderated mediation model of academic buoyancy and emotional engagement	29
The role of cognitive individual differences in digital versus pen-and-paper writing	24
Introduction to the special issue on English medium instruction: Areas of research needing urgent attention	24
Task-based elementary Spanish in rural Indiana: A practice-based collaboration	23
Review of Situating language learning strategy use: Present issues and future trends; Editors: Zoe Gavriilidou, Lydia Mitits; Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2021; ISBN: 9781788926713; Pages: 376	19
Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on conducting research syntheses on individual differences in SLA	18
Musical hearing and the acquisition of foreign-language intonation	18
The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies: A study in micro-bibliometrics	15
Autonomy in language education: Theory, research and practice	15
“I feel like it’s giving me a lot as a language teacher to be a learner myself”: Factors affecting the implementation of a multilingual pedagogy as reported by teachers of diverse languages	15
The underlying factors of foreign language reading anxiety: Their effects on strategy use and orientation toward reading	14
Reviewers for Volume 14/2024	13
Relative complexity in a model of word difficulty: The role of loanwords in vocabulary size tests	12
A longitudinal study on students’ self-regulated listening during transition to an English-medium transnational university in China	12
Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on teaching English reading and writing to young learners	10
Investigating individual differences with qualitative research methods: Results of a meta-analysis of leading applied linguistics journals	10
To lead or not to lead: The fluctuation of peer leadership in collaborative oral argumentation	9

Directed motivational currents: A systematic review	9
Exploring the importance of vocabulary for English as an additional language learners’ reading comprehension	8
When to switch captions off? Exploring the effects of L2 proficiency and vocabulary knowledge on comprehension of captioned and uncaptioned TV	8
Introduction to the special issue on L2 writing and feedback processing and use in pen and paper and digital environments: Advancing research and practice	8
Content teachers’ and lecturers’ corrective feedback in EMI classes in high school and university settings	8
Chinese secondary school teachers’ conceptions of L2 assessment: A mixed-methods study	8
Second language listening comprehension: The role of anxiety and enjoyment in listening metacognitive awareness	7
Language teacher professional curiosity: Understanding the drive for professional development	7
Reviewers for Volume 12/2022	7
Modeling the interaction between teacher credibility, teacher confirmation, and English major students’ academic engagement: A sequential mixed-methods approach	7
Specialized vocabulary across languages: The case of traditional Chinese medicine	7
Review of An advanced guide to multilingualism by Larissa Aronin	6
Learner-generated content, task engagement, affective response, and memory on technology-mediated conversation tasks	6
Review of Learning words from reading: A cognitive model of word-meaning inference; Author: Megumi Hamada; Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021; ISBN: 978-1-3501-5368-4; Pages: 168	5
High school EFL students’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback: The role of gender, motivation and extraversion	5
Effects of EMI-CLIL on secondary-level students’ English learning: A multilevel meta-analysis	5
Promoting equity in study abroad: A focus on first-generation and students of color in the USA	5
Shifting focus through a small lens: Discursive and introspective perspectives on the emergence of L2 study emotions	5
When time matters: Mechanisms of change in a mediational model of foreign language playfulness and L2 learners’ emotions using latent change score mediation model	5
Instructed second language acquisition research methods	5
The learning potential of English as a lingua franca contexts in the eyes of study abroad students	5
Heritage language identity matters: Tracing the trajectory of a Chinese heritage mother and contested Chinese dual language bilingual education	4
The effects of implicit corrective feedback on production of lexical stress in L2 English	4
Dynamic fluctuations in foreign language enjoyment during cognitively simple and complex interactive speaking tasks	4
Dialogic investigations: Motivation in Japanese language learning	4
Exploring collocation development in L2 German from students’ perspective: A contrasting case study	4
Learner variables in the development of intercultural competence: A synthesis of home and study abroad research	4
Review of Understanding formulaic language: A second language acquisition perspective; Editors: Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez; Publisher: Routledge, 2019; ISBN: 9781138634978; Pages: 2	4
Taking stock: A meta-analysis of the effects of foreign language enjoyment	4
Foundational principles of task-based language teaching	4
Listener perception of appropriateness of L1 and L2 refusals in English	4
Exploring the psychometric properties of the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Chinese EFL context	4
“Profesora is doing a great job!” or “Online learning sucks”: The relationship between students’ profiles and online language learning	4
Accuracy order in L2 grammatical morphemes: Corpus evidence from different proficiency levels of Turkish learners of English	3
Innovating teacher feedback with writing activities aimed at raising secondary school students’ awareness of collocation errors	3
Understanding cultural specificity of positive emotions in SLA: The antecedents of foreign language enjoyment and peace of mind in the Chinese context	3
Reviewers for Volume 11/2021	3
Reviewers for Volume 13/2023	3
A network approach to language learning burnout, negative emotions, and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies	3
Bibliometrics and scientometrics in applied linguistics: Epilogue to the special issue	3
The impact of input, input repetition, and task repetition on L2 lexical use and fluency in speaking	2
A classroom-based study on the effects of WCF on accuracy in pen-and-paper versus computer-mediated collaborative writing	2
Modelling trait and state willingness to communicate in a second language: An experience sampling approach	2
Exploring peer emotion transmission in foreign language classrooms: A social psychological investigation using mixed methods	2
Examining the role of English language proficiency, language learning anxiety, and self-regulation skills in EMI students’ academic success	2
Let’s get positive: How foreign language teaching enjoyment can create a positive feedback loop	2
Editorial	2
Trends in language assessment and testing: A bibliometric study	2
The role of motivation and vocabulary learning strategies in L2 vocabulary knowledge: A structural equation modeling analysis	2
Task-specific emotions in L2 writing: A control-value theory approach from a positive psychology perspective	2

SLA as an interdiscipline: A bibliometric study