IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Papers
(The median citation count of IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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English and Spanish speakers’ interpretations of L2 Chinese applicative double object constructions36
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Exploring self-regulated learning behaviours of young second language learners during group work26
Exploring the interplay of trait-like L2 willingness to communicate, international posture, language anxiety and fluency in monologue L2 speech20
Unraveling the dynamics of English communicative motivation and self-efficacy through task-supported language teaching: a latent growth modeling perspective20
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices19
Classroom assessment and learning motivation: insights from secondary school EFL classrooms19
Effects of task complexity on the learning of genre specific rhetorical moves and linguistic forms: the case of contrast and argumentative essays14
Deciphering the role of multilingualism in creativity at university: the influence of context13
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Which approach best promoted low-proficiency learners’ listening performance: metacognitive, bottom-up or a combination of both?12
Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications10
Exploring individual longitudinal development in a corpus of ‘natural’ disciplinary writing: what could it mean for teaching?9
Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions8
Exploring teacher-student interaction in task and non-task sequences8
“I usually just rely on my intuition and go from there.” pedagogical rules and metalinguistic awareness of pre-service EFL teachers8
Miscommunicated referent tracking in L2 English: a case-by-case analysis8
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Language transfer in tense acquisition: new evidence from English learning Chinese adolescents8
Emotion as pedagogy: why the emotion labor of L2 educators matters8
Student and teacher beliefs about oral corrective feedback in junior secondary English classrooms8
The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom8
Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development7
Unpacking changing emotions in multiple contexts: idiodynamic study of college students’ academic emotions7
The role of awareness in implicit and explicit knowledge7
Machine translation as a form of feedback on L2 writing7
Assessing effects of source text complexity on L2 learners’ interpreting performance: a dependency-based approach7
Exploring L2 learners’ processing of unknown words during subtitled viewing through self-reports7
Exploring the learning benefits of collaborative writing in L2 Chinese: a product-oriented perspective6
Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement6
L3 acquisition of aspect: the influence of structural similarity, analytic L2 and general L3 proficiency6
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Teaching English with Chinese characteristics: a corpus analysis of changes in university curricula6
Exploring the professional role identities of English for academic purposes practitioners: a qualitative study6
Enhancing English spatial prepositions acquisition among Spanish learners of English as L2 through an embodied approach6
Fluency across modes: an exploratory study of L1 and L2 spoken and written fluency5
Which factors predict teachers’ evaluation of the difficulty and usefulness of phrasal verbs in L2 contexts?5
Incidental learning of collocations through reading an academic text5
Internal and external appraisals of analytical writing. A proposal for assessing development and potential improvement5
Assessing English language learners’ collocation knowledge: a systematic review of receptive and productive measurements5
Broadening the appliability of systemic functional linguistics5
Intensity of CLIL exposure and L2 motivation in primary school: evidence from Spanish EFL learners in non-CLIL, low-CLIL and high-CLIL programmes5
Influencing factors of L2 writers’ engagement in an assessment as learning-focused context5
Phrasal complexity in EFL learners’ oral performance: The role of task type and proficiency4
Learning phrasal verbs in the EFL classroom: the effect of prior vocabulary knowledge and opacity4
The use of metadiscourse by secondary-level Chinese learners of English in examination scripts: insights from a corpus-based study4
The predictive roles of enjoyment, anxiety, willingness to communicate on students’ performance in English public speaking classes4
The relationship between university EFL teachers’ oral feedback beliefs and practices and the impact of individual differences4
Are foreign language teaching enjoyment and motivation two sides of the same coin?4
She is “just an intern”: transnational Chinese language teachers’ emotion labor with mentors in a teacher residency program4
Model texts in collaborative and individual writing among EFL children: noticing, incorporations, and draft quality4
Effects of guided concept mapping on L2 learners’ listening ability and cognitive load4
Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners4
Chinese EFL learners’ basic psychological needs satisfaction and foreign language emotions: a person-centered approach4
Enjoyment in language teaching: a study into EFL teachers’ subjectivities4
Prior processing, foreign language classroom anxiety, and L2 fluency3
Consequences of the comparative fallacy for the acquisition of grammatical aspect in Spanish3
Explicit grammar instruction in the EFL classroom: studying the impact of age and gender3
A systematic review of English-as-a-foreign-language vocabulary learning activities for primary school students3
The combined effects of task repetition and post-task teacher-corrected transcribing on complexity, accuracy and fluency of L2 oral performance3
“I’ve just lived inside a tumble dryer”: a narrative of emotion labour, (de)motivation, and agency in the life of a language teacher3
Unraveling the differential effects of task rehearsal and task repetition on L2 task performance: the mediating role of task modality3
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Development and validation of Questionnaire for Self-regulated Learning Writing Strategies (QSRLWS) for EFL learners3
Emotion profiles of Chinese secondary EFL learners: link with subjective well-being, English achievement, and demographics3
A meta-analysis examining AI-assisted L2 learning3
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Self-regulated learning and task engagement: a SEM analysis3
Fossilized mistakes in Spanish relative clauses learned by Chinese students3
System networks as a resource in L2 writing education3
Defining competencies for training non-native Korean speaking teachers: a Q methodology approach3
Integrated instruction of Appraisal Theory and rhetorical moves in literature reviews: an exploratory study3
Glossing and incidental vocabulary learning in L2 reading: a cognitive load perspective3
The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance2
Examining the impact of foreign language anxiety and language contact on oral proficiency: a study of Chinese as a second language learners2
Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers2
Multilingual pedagogies in first versus foreign language contexts: a cross-country study of language teachers2
Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing: an ecological approach2
Implementing an oral task in an EFL classroom with low proficient learners: a micro-evaluation2
The impact of abdominal enhancement techniques on L1 Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin speakers’ English pronunciation2
Stance-taking through APPRAISAL in L1 and L2 English argumentative essays: insights from Vietnamese L2 English2
Factors behind L2 English learners’ performance of oppositional speech acts: a look at pragmatic-related episodes (PREs) during thinking aloud2
The stone left unturned: boredom among young EFL learners2
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The construct of integrated group discussion (IGD) among undergraduate students: to what extent does group discussion performance reflect performance on IGD tasks?2
Investigating Indonesian EFL learners’ knowledge and use of English causative constructions2
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools2
Exploring Chinese university English writing teachers’ emotions in providing feedback on student writing2
Task modality and working memory: oral production improvement through a text-reconstruction task across various proficiency levels in L22
Revisiting after-class boredom via exploratory structural equation modeling2
Relationship between second language vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary learning strategy use: a meta-analysis of correlational studies2
Text mining of syntactic complexity in L2 writing: an LDA topic modeling approach2
Examining L2 studentsʼ development of global cohesion and its relationship with their argumentative essay quality2
Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift2
The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English2
The effect of an intervention focused on academic language on CAF measures in the multilingual writing of secondary students2
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The associations between working memory and the effects of multimedia input on L2 vocabulary learning2
The use of blocking and inhibition training in processing instruction2
Impact of task type and task complexity on negotiation of meaning in young learners of Chinese as a second language2
Can we train young EFL learners to ‘notice the gap’? Exploring the relationship between metalinguistic awareness, grammar learning and the use of metalinguistic explanations in a dictogloss task2
Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English2
Measurement of engagement in the foreign language classroom and its effect on language achievement: the case of Chinese college EFL students2
On the acquisition of tense and agreement in L2 English by adult speakers of L1 Chinese2
Applying embodied meaning of spatial prepositions and the Principled Polysemy model to teaching English as a second language: the case of to and on2
Comprehension of English articles by Korean learners of L2 English and L3 Spanish2
An accident was happened? Conceptual and input biases in the overpassivization of English unaccusative verbs2
Strategic reading comprehension in L2 and L3: assuming relative interdependence within Cummins’ linguistic interdependence hypothesis2
Listenership always matters: active listening ability in L2 business English paired speaking tasks2
Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies2
Introduction: textual analysis to inform language learning and teaching2
Enhancing the processing advantage: two psycholinguistic investigations of formulaic expressions in Chinese as a second language2
L2 use of pragmatic markers in peer talk: Mandarin utterance-final particles1
Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress1
Understanding the Usefulness of E-Portfolios: Linking Artefacts, Reflection, and Validation1
Focus on form in task repetition through oral and written task modeling1
Using sentence processing speed and automaticity to predict L2 performance in the productive and receptive tasks1
Aural vocabulary, orthographic vocabulary, and listening comprehension1
A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance1
Speaking proficiency development in EFL classrooms: measuring the differential effect of TBLT and PPP teaching approaches1
Factor structures of speed and breakdown fluency in EFL learners’ story retelling performances1
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in motion event conceptualisation in bilingual speakers of Spanish and English1
Teacher behaviour and student engagement with L2 writing feedback: a case study1
The combined effects of a higher-level verb distribution and verb semantics on second language learners’ restriction of L2 construction generalization1
The impact of text-audio synchronized enhancement on collocation learning from reading-while-listening: an extended replication of Jung and Lee (2023)1
The acquisition of L3 French present simple and present progressive by adult L1 Chinese speakers of L2 English1
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Acquisition of collocations under different glossing modalities and the mediating role of learners’ perceptual learning style1
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Assessing written production in L2 Mandarin Chinese: fluency and accuracy1
Influence of topic-prominent L1s on the use of L2 English copula be: a corpus-based study1
Grammatical gender assignment in L3 versus L4 Swedish: a pseudo-longitudinal study1
Investigating the impact of task complexity on uptake and noticing of corrective feedback recasts1
Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language1
Validation of metacognitive knowledge in vocabulary learning and its predictive effects on incidental vocabulary learning from reading1
High school EFL teachers’ oral corrective feedback beliefs and practices, and the effects of lesson focus1
Enhancing young EFL learners’ written skills: the role of repeated pre-task planning1
Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles: a functional analysis of medical discourse1
Validation of a multiple-choice implicature test: insights from Chinese EFL learners’ cognitive processes1
When are performance-approach goals more adaptive for Chinese EFL learners? It depends on their underlying reasons1
Listener engagement: the missing link in research on accented speech1
Phraseological complexity and low- and intermediate-level L2 learners’ writing quality1
Promoting interaction and lowering speaking anxiety in an EMI course: a group dynamic assessment approach1
Children learning Mongolian as an additional language through the implementation of a task-based approach1
Functions, sociocultural explanations and conversational influence of discourse markers: focus on zenme shuo ne in L2 Chinese1
Task complexity, task repetition, and L2 writing complexity: exploring interactions in the TBLT domain1
Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading1
Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom1
Analyzing trends in the aural decoding errors of Japanese EFL learners1
The mediating roles of resilience and motivation in the relationship between students’ English learning burnout and engagement: a conservation-of-resources perspective1
Testing a model of EFL teachers’ work engagement: the roles of teachers’ professional identity, L2 grit, and foreign language teaching enjoyment1
An idiodynamic study of the interconnectedness between cognitive and affective components underlying L2 willingness to communicate1
The influence of language contact and ethnic identification on Chinese as a second language learners’ oral proficiency1
Scaffolding in genre-based L2 writing classes: Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices1
Acquisition of attributive adjectives and noun adjuncts by L3 learners of French and German: further evidence for the typological primacy model (TPM)1
Individual perceptions of group work environment, motivation, and achievement1
Investigating optimal spacing schedules for incidental acquisition of L2 collocations1
The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading1
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Contributions of significant others to second language teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective1
Relationship between learner creativity, task planning, and speaking performance in L2 narrative tasks1
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