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 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Miscommunicated referent tracking in L2 English: a case-by-case analysis31
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Internal and external appraisals of analytical writing. A proposal for assessing development and potential improvement31
Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications21
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Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions20
Fluency across modes: an exploratory study of L1 and L2 spoken and written fluency19
Phrasal complexity in EFL learners’ oral performance: The role of task type and proficiency18
Gender assignment errors in adult L2 Spanish: incorrect assignment or unavailable assignment?17
The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English17
Comprehension of English articles by Korean learners of L2 English and L3 Spanish16
Listenership always matters: active listening ability in L2 business English paired speaking tasks15
Development and validation of Questionnaire for Self-regulated Learning Writing Strategies (QSRLWS) for EFL learners14
A systematic review of English-as-a-foreign-language vocabulary learning activities for primary school students14
A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance13
The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance13
The combined effects of task repetition and post-task teacher-corrected transcribing on complexity, accuracy and fluency of L2 oral performance13
Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading12
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Patterns of interaction between experiential and interpersonal meanings in student texts in Spanish: grounds for system-based applications in an academic writing context12
Investigating optimal spacing schedules for incidental acquisition of L2 collocations11
Validation of a multiple-choice implicature test: insights from Chinese EFL learners’ cognitive processes11
Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language11
A cross-modal analysis of lexical sophistication: EFL and ESL learners in written and spoken production11
Contributions of significant others to second language teacher well-being: a self-determination theory perspective10
Teacher behaviour and student engagement with L2 writing feedback: a case study10
Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging10
From Yi Language to Mandarin: translanguaging practices and identity construction between actual and ought-to L1 selves10
Evaluative language in undergraduate academic writing: expressions of attitude as sources of text effectiveness in English as a Foreign Language9
Why is L2 pragmatics still a neglected area in EFL teaching? Uncovered stories from Vietnamese EFL teachers9
“Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation9
The use of interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) by L2 learners: the impact of age, gender, language learning experience, and L2 proficiency levels9
Anxiety and enjoyment in oral presentations: a mixed-method study into Chinese EFL learners’ oral presentation performance9
L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction9
Exploring aural vocabulary knowledge for TOEIC as a language exit requirement in higher education in Taiwan9
Measuring and profiling Chinese secondary school English teachers’ language mindsets: an exploratory study of non-native teachers’ perceived L2 proficiency loss8
Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations8
Investigating willingness to communicate in synchronous group discussion tasks: one step closer towards authentic communication8
The effects of pre-task explicit instruction, input modality of task types, and working memory on L2 oral production8
Toward a better understanding of student engagement with peer feedback: a longitudinal study8
Effects of working memory and task type on syntactic complexity in EFL learners’ writing8
Emotion labor in teacher collaboration: towards developing emotional reflexivity8
The association between socioeconomic status and Chinese secondary students’ English achievement: mediation of self-efficacy and moderation of gender8
The dynamics of changes in linguistic complexity and writing scores in timed argumentative writing among beginning-level EFL learners8
The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management8
The impact of textual enhancement on the acquisition of third person possessive pronouns by child EFL learners7
Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition7
The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective7
Emotion labor in response to supervisor feedback: is feedback a burden or a blessing?7
Learner beliefs about vocabulary teaching in secondary ESL classrooms: a proficiency and grade-level analysis7
“I usually just rely on my intuition and go from there.” pedagogical rules and metalinguistic awareness of pre-service EFL teachers7
Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL7
A Q methodological study into pre-service Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ mindsets about teaching competencies7
Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis7
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices6
Scaffolding in genre-based L2 writing classes: Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices6
Factor structures of speed and breakdown fluency in EFL learners’ story retelling performances6
Influencing factors of L2 writers’ engagement in an assessment as learning-focused context6
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High school EFL teachers’ oral corrective feedback beliefs and practices, and the effects of lesson focus6
The stone left unturned: boredom among young EFL learners6
Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement6
Examining the impact of foreign language anxiety and language contact on oral proficiency: a study of Chinese as a second language learners6
Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers6
Teaching mental processes to EFL learners: a blended-learning proposal5
Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship5
Teaching L2 Spanish idioms with semantic motivation: should this be done proactively or retroactively?5
When are performance-approach goals more adaptive for Chinese EFL learners? It depends on their underlying reasons5
Using sentence processing speed and automaticity to predict L2 performance in the productive and receptive tasks5
The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading5
Investigating the effects of varying Accelerative Integrated Method instruction on spoken recall accuracy: a case study with junior primary learners of French5
The acquisition of L3 French present simple and present progressive by adult L1 Chinese speakers of L2 English5
Diagnosing EFL writers’ development of discourse competence in disciplinary writing: an ecological approach5
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Exploring the interplay of growth mindset, mindfulness, and L2 self-efficacy in second language achievement: a mixed-methods study5
Exploring the dynamic metaphor patterns in describing English public speaking anxiety among Chinese learners4
Exploring the pseudo-longitudinal development of specific morphosyntactic features and syntactic complexity in CLIL young learners4
Exploring relationships between L1 and L2 writing strategy use and integrated writing performance: A cross-linguistic perspective4
Distance-invoked difficulty as a trigger for errors in Chinese and Japanese EFL learners’ English writings4
Exploring the hierarchical antecedents of willingness to communicate and its relationship with utterance fluency in learning Chinese as a foreign language4
Incorporating peer feedback in writing instruction: examining its effects on Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ writing performance4
Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China4
What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation4
The effect of collaborative prewriting on L2 collaborative writing production and individual L2 writing development4
Immediate and long-term improvement in lexical stress perception: the role of teacher and peer feedback4
Unpacking the positioning of being “disengaged” and “disrespectful” in class through nexus analysis: an international student’s navigation of institutional and interactional university norms4
Effects of task complexity and task condition on Chinese EFL learners’ word engagement and incidental vocabulary learning4
Cognitive fatigue induced by spaced and massed practice: effects on idiom accuracy across L2 proficiency levels4
Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China4
Lexical and grammatical collocations in beginning and intermediate L2 argumentative essays: a bigram study4
Students’ L2 grit, foreign language anxiety and language learning achievement: a latent profile and mediation analysis4
Perception of English semivowels by Japanese-speaking learners of English4
Assessing self-efficacy, working memory, and proficiency in a multimedia writing environment4
An exploratory study on second language learner engagement in different types of interactive tasks in video-chat and text-chat communication4
Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles: a functional analysis of medical discourse3
Functional linguistics in life: an embodied approach in teacher education3
Listener engagement: the missing link in research on accented speech3
The influence of language contact and ethnic identification on Chinese as a second language learners’ oral proficiency3
Intensity of CLIL exposure and L2 motivation in primary school: evidence from Spanish EFL learners in non-CLIL, low-CLIL and high-CLIL programmes3
Effects of guided concept mapping on L2 learners’ listening ability and cognitive load3
Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity3
Young L2 learners in diverse instructional contexts3
Exploring self-regulated learning behaviours of young second language learners during group work3
Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies3
Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom3
Effects of repeated practice on fluency and accuracy in picture description activity: implicit learning by frequency3
What watching subtitled movies does to the learner: the impact of subtitles and modality on cognitive load and vocabulary learning3
System networks as a resource in L2 writing education3
Factors behind L2 English learners’ performance of oppositional speech acts: a look at pragmatic-related episodes (PREs) during thinking aloud3
L3 acquisition of aspect: the influence of structural similarity, analytic L2 and general L3 proficiency3
The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom3
Scale validation and latent profile identification of GenAI competence for pre-service second language teachers3
Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift3
Enhancing young EFL learners’ written skills: the role of repeated pre-task planning3
Scaffolding instruction in an EFL drama lesson: a systemic functional analysis3
Emotion profiles of Chinese secondary EFL learners: link with subjective well-being, English achievement, and demographics3
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools3
Non-finite clause use in disciplinary research writing: a formulaic sequence-based functional comparison between expert and student writers3
Implementing an oral task in an EFL classroom with low proficient learners: a micro-evaluation3
Machine translation as a form of feedback on L2 writing3
Defining competencies for training non-native Korean speaking teachers: a Q methodology approach3
Effects of textual enhancement on L2 development: a meta-analysis3
Are L2 listener verbal reports reactive? Insights from the learners3
Language transfer in tense acquisition: new evidence from English learning Chinese adolescents2
Towards a model of self-regulation, self-efficacy, working memory, English proficiency, and writing performance in an EFL multimedia writing context2
General auditory processing, Mandarin L1 prosodic and phonological awareness, and English L2 word learning2
When concept-based language instruction meets cognitive linguistics: teaching English phrasal verbs with up and out2
“Am I really abroad?” The informal language contact and social networks of Chinese foundation students in the UK2
Connective Frequency Bands informed by textbook frequencies and midadolescents’ knowledge of connectives: a tool to support Spanish literacy instruction across content areas2
Speech fluency among L1 Arabic elementary and intermediate learners of English as a foreign language2
Assessing written production in L2 Mandarin Chinese: fluency and accuracy2
Children learning Mongolian as an additional language through the implementation of a task-based approach2
Using automated indices of cohesion to explore the growth of cohesive features in L2 writing2
What pronunciation specialists believe CELTA tutors need to know to prepare student teachers to teach pronunciation2
Exploring teacher-student interaction in task and non-task sequences2
Second language fluency across contexts: introduction to the special issue2
Understanding the moderating role of school achievement level between growth mindsets, engagement and achievement in students’ English learning2
Beyond learning opportunities: focused encounters in a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition and teaching2
Measuring learners’ writing development in a Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) context2
A bibliometric analysis of the IRAL over the past six decades2
The effect of form presentation mode and language learning aptitude on the learning burden and decay of L2 vocabulary knowledge2
Understanding salient trajectories and emerging profiles in the development of Chinese learners’ motivation: a growth mixture modeling approach2
Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires2
Acquisition of collocations under different glossing modalities and the mediating role of learners’ perceptual learning style2
Emotional labor of a Brazilian public school teacher: domination and resistance in a neoliberal context2
Personality as a catalyst for strategic self-regulation in language learning2
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Exploring learner-related variables in child collaborative writing: interaction mindset, willingness to communicate and proficiency2
Comparing motivational features between feedback givers and receivers in English speaking class2
How teaching modality affects Foreign Language Enjoyment: a comparison of in-person and online English as a Foreign Language classes2
Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing2
Low-level visual processing of motion events as a window into language-specific effects on perception2
Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis2
Competing factors in SLA: how the CASP model of SLA explains the acquisition of English restrictive relative clauses by native speakers of Arabic and Korean2
English language teachers’ social media branding: mapping the construction and perception of brand identities on Instagram2
Relationship between learner creativity, task planning, and speaking performance in L2 narrative tasks2
Effects of random selection tests on second language vocabulary learning: a comparison with cumulative tests2
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