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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A person-specific perspective on the dynamics of anxiety in foreign language learning: A dynamic P-technique factor analysis	156
Unraveling EMI as a predictor of English proficiency in Vietnamese higher education: Exploring learners’ backgrounds as a variable	66
Why am I learning English? Spanish EFL sports science university students´ motivational orientations through the prism of the L2 motivational self system	57
Language learners’ emotion regulation and enjoyment in an online collaborative writing program	48
Editorial	40
Second language psychological speaking and listening needs: Scale development, symbiosis, and demographic differences	37
Models as written corrective feedback: Effects on young L2 learners’ fluency in digital writing from product and process perspectives	34
When my teachers think I can, then I know I can: A systematic review	32
The role of cognitive individual differences in digital versus pen-and-paper writing	29
Task-based elementary Spanish in rural Indiana: A practice-based collaboration	26
Introduction to the special issue on English medium instruction: Areas of research needing urgent attention	22
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	21
Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on conducting research syntheses on individual differences in SLA	19
Musical hearing and the acquisition of foreign-language intonation	18
Introduction to the special issue on ability beliefs and learning a new language at school	18
Autonomy in language education: Theory, research and practice	17
The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies: A study in micro-bibliometrics	16
Reviewers for Volume 14/2024	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
Relative complexity in a model of word difficulty: The role of loanwords in vocabulary size tests	12
Investigating individual differences with qualitative research methods: Results of a meta-analysis of leading applied linguistics journals	12
Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on teaching English reading and writing to young learners	12
A longitudinal study on students’ self-regulated listening during transition to an English-medium transnational university in China	11
Introduction to the special issue on L2 writing and feedback processing and use in pen and paper and digital environments: Advancing research and practice	10
Directed motivational currents: A systematic review	10

To lead or not to lead: The fluctuation of peer leadership in collaborative oral argumentation	10
Exploring the importance of vocabulary for English as an additional language learners’ reading comprehension	10
When to switch captions off? Exploring the effects of L2 proficiency and vocabulary knowledge on comprehension of captioned and uncaptioned TV	9
Modeling the interaction between teacher credibility, teacher confirmation, and English major students’ academic engagement: A sequential mixed-methods approach	8
Specialized vocabulary across languages: The case of traditional Chinese medicine	8
Content teachers’ and lecturers’ corrective feedback in EMI classes in high school and university settings	8
Second language listening comprehension: The role of anxiety and enjoyment in listening metacognitive awareness	8
Reviewers for Volume 12/2022	8
Chinese secondary school teachers’ conceptions of L2 assessment: A mixed-methods study	8
Learner-generated content, task engagement, affective response, and memory on technology-mediated conversation tasks	8
Review of An advanced guide to multilingualism by Larissa Aronin	7
When time matters: Mechanisms of change in a mediational model of foreign language playfulness and L2 learners’ emotions using latent change score mediation model	7
Instructed second language acquisition research methods	7
Effects of EMI-CLIL on secondary-level students’ English learning: A multilevel meta-analysis	7
Beyond achievement goals: How different goals drive second language learning and achievement	7
Language teacher professional curiosity: Understanding the drive for professional development	7
The learning potential of English as a lingua franca contexts in the eyes of study abroad students	7
Learner variables in the development of intercultural competence: A synthesis of home and study abroad research	6
How do text type, prior vocabulary knowledge, and working memory capacity affect second language incidental vocabulary learning through reading?	6
Foundational principles of task-based language teaching	6
The effect of executive functions on word reading among students with Chinese as a second language (CSL)	6
Promoting equity in study abroad: A focus on first-generation and students of color in the USA	6
Exploring collocation development in L2 German from students’ perspective: A contrasting case study	6
Shifting focus through a small lens: Discursive and introspective perspectives on the emergence of L2 study emotions	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	6
Listener perception of appropriateness of L1 and L2 refusals in English	5
Dynamic fluctuations in foreign language enjoyment during cognitively simple and complex interactive speaking tasks	5
A network approach to language learning burnout, negative emotions, and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies	5
The effects of implicit corrective feedback on production of lexical stress in L2 English	5
Heritage language identity matters: Tracing the trajectory of a Chinese heritage mother and contested Chinese dual language bilingual education	5
Taking stock: A meta-analysis of the effects of foreign language enjoyment	5
“Profesora is doing a great job!” or “Online learning sucks”: The relationship between students’ profiles and online language learning	5
Exploring the psychometric properties of the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Chinese EFL context	5
Bibliometrics and scientometrics in applied linguistics: Epilogue to the special issue	4
Self-efficacy’s role within learning a new language during formal education: Systematic review, critical evaluation of past research and paths forward for research and practice	4
Wearing the mask: The role of imposter phenomenon in EFL learning and its effect on learner emotions and engagement	4
Dialogic investigations: Motivation in Japanese language learning	4
Accuracy order in L2 grammatical morphemes: Corpus evidence from different proficiency levels of Turkish learners of English	4
Understanding cultural specificity of positive emotions in SLA: The antecedents of foreign language enjoyment and peace of mind in the Chinese context	4
Envisioning new directions in research on individual differences	4
Reviewers for Volume 13/2023	4
Reviewers for Volume 11/2021	4
Innovating teacher feedback with writing activities aimed at raising secondary school students’ awareness of collocation errors	4
The impact of input, input repetition, and task repetition on L2 lexical use and fluency in speaking	3
Examining the role of English language proficiency, language learning anxiety, and self-regulation skills in EMI students’ academic success	3
Let’s get positive: How foreign language teaching enjoyment can create a positive feedback loop	3
The role of motivation and vocabulary learning strategies in L2 vocabulary knowledge: A structural equation modeling analysis	3
A classroom-based study on the effects of WCF on accuracy in pen-and-paper versus computer-mediated collaborative writing	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	2

Editorial	2
Trends in language assessment and testing: A bibliometric study	2
Developing explicit and implicit L2 knowledge with Duolingo’s input-based features: Case studies of L2 Spanish learning	2
Exploring peer emotion transmission in foreign language classrooms: A social psychological investigation using mixed methods	2
Modelling trait and state willingness to communicate in a second language: An experience sampling approach	2
A state-of-the-art review of distribution-of-practice effects on L2 learning	2