Language Learning

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Learning 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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Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability38
Order Effects in Second Language Learning31
What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary30
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals29
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning29
Prosody in Pragmatic Competence: Proficiency Impact on Pitch and Fluency Features in Request‐Making in Second Language Chinese25
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)23
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception22
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language22
To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?21
Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)21
The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands19
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Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist18
Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions17
Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)16
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration15
Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’14
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing14
Heading South, Unmuting Multilingualisms: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education”13
Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages13
Open Research in Artificial Intelligence and the Search for Common Ground in Reproducibility: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”13
Optionality, Complexity, Difficulty: The Next Step: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”13
Where is Community Involvement in Open Science? A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”13
Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”12
The Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics – A response from Europe: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied L12
Assessing Verb‐Construction Integration in Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Analyses of Written and Spoken Production12
Study Abroad Students’ Social Contacts in Different Linguistic Contexts and Their Relationship With English Use and Development12
Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overv12
Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian11
Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences11
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)11
Dialect‐Specific Modes Influence Second Language Production: Evidence From Bidialectal Shanghai–Mandarin Chinese Learners of English Within the Second Language Linguistic Perception Model11
Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood10
A Commentary on “Proactive Language Learning Theory”10
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder10
The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language10
Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study10
The Unbearable Whiteness of Communicative Competence Research: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”10
Incorporating Co‐occurrence Into the Operationalization of Speech Disfluency for Second Language Pronunciation and Oral Proficiency Assessment10
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Plurality Is a Good Start, but It's Time for Unification: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”10
Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study10
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Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions9
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation9
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment9
Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education9
Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses8
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study8
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis8
From a Molar to a Molecular Approach to the Developmental Trajectory of Syntax Comprehension of Persons with Intellectual Disability7
Phraseological Use and Development During a Stay Abroad: Exploring Sensitivity to Frequency and Cue Contingency7
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study7
Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension7
Alignment of Top‐Down Policies With Emerging Bottom‐Up Practices: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”7
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The Role of Prosody in International Communication in English in Call Center Interactions6
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Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials6
Developing an Automatic Pronunciation Scorer: Aligning Speech Evaluation Models and Applied Linguistics Constructs6
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Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning6
Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable6
Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment6
The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries6
A Race Critical Peer Commentary With the Post‐White Orientation: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”5
Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language5
Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing5
Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective5
On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries5
Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning Sign Languages as Additional Languages: Considering Language‐ and Modality‐Specific Factors5
Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children5
Social Aspects in Language Learning: New Perspectives from Study‐Abroad Research5
Undesirable Difficulty of Interleaved Practice: The Importance of Initial Blocked Practice for Declarative Knowledge Development in Low‐Achieving Adolescents4
Declarative and Automatized Phonological Vocabulary Knowledge: Recognition, Recall, Lexicosemantic Judgment, and Listening‐Focused Employability of Second Language Words4
Process and Product in ISLA Research: Courage, Commitment, and Tolerance for Ambiguity4
Incidental and Multimodal High Variability Phonetic Training: Potential, Limits, and Future Directions4
Peer Interaction Dynamics and Second Language Learning Trajectories During Study Abroad: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Dynamic Computational Social Network Analysis4
Critical and Dialogic Perspectives on Why Ecologies Matter: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Educati4
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Proactive Language Learning Theory4
Word‐Combination‐Based Measures of Phraseological Diversity, Sophistication, and Complexity and Their Relationship to Second Language Chinese Proficiency and Writing Quality4
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Uncovering Sampling Biases, Advancing Inclusivity, and Rethinking Theoretical Accounts in Second Language Acquisition: Introduction to the Special Issue SLA for All?4
Unraveling the Complexities of Second Language Lexical Stress Processing: The Impact of First Language Transfer, Second Language Proficiency, and Exposure4
Teachers’ Verbal Lexical Explanation for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Meta‐Analysis4
To Bilingualism and Beyond! Modeling Bilingualism Requires Looking Beyond Language: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”4
Artificial Intelligence‐Generated Feedback for Second Language Intelligibility: An Exploratory Intervention Study on Effects and Perceptions3
The Interplay of Complexity, Genre, and Second Language Proficiency: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”3
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Moving Second Language Processing Beyond an Isolationist View: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”3
Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes3
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Captioned Viewing: A Meta‐Analysis3
The Association Between Metalinguistic Awareness and Chinese Word Reading: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis3
Investigating the Relation Between Second Language Proficiency and Study Success Using a Causal Inference Approach3
Neural Evidence for Syntactic Unification in Second Language Sentence Comprehension: A Time‐Frequency Analysis3
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Measuring Teenage Learners’ Automatized, Explicit, and/or Implicit Knowledge: A Question of Context?3
Engaging Indigenous Language Learning Through Relational Accountability: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”3
Linguistic Priming and Learning Adjacent and Nonadjacent Dependencies in Serial Reaction Time Tasks3
Simulating the Relationship Between Nonword Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2‐Year‐Olds: Evidence From the Language 0–5 Project3
Move, Rove, Love: Color Cues Help Learning Novel English Words When Pronunciation Is Not Predictable From Spelling3
Disambiguating Complexity: From CAF to CAFIC: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”3
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Rethinking First Language–Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project3
Implicit Learning in Production: Productive Generalization of New Form–Meaning Connections in the Absence of Awareness3
Neural Basis of Second Language Speech Learning – Past and Future: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”3
Lexico‐Semantic Attrition of Native Language: Evidence From Russian–Hebrew Bilinguals3
Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals3
Incidental Learning of Collocations in an Academic Lecture Through Different Input Modes3
Contrasting Fixed‐ and Mixed‐Effects Modeling in Vocabulary Research: Reanalyzing Laufer (2024) and McLean et al. (2020)2
From Play to Language: Infants’ Actions on Objects Cascade to Word Learning2
How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse2
Iconicity and Gesture Jointly Facilitate Learning of Second Language Signs at First Exposure in Hearing Nonsigners2
Crowdsourced Adaptive Comparative Judgment: A Community‐Based Solution for Proficiency Rating2
A Generative Approach to the Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Spanish se2
Testing the Relationship of Linguistic Complexity to Second Language Learners’ Comparative Judgment on Text Difficulty2
The Postprint Pledge – Toward a Culture of Researcher‐Driven Initiatives: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”2
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L2 Learners’ Signed Language Processing Relates, in Part, to Perspective‐Taking Skills2
Academic Language as Linguistic Capital – A Window to Social Justice: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research a2
Spacing Effects in Task Repetition Research2
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Error‐Correction Mechanisms in Language Learning: Modeling Individuals2
Which Aspects of Visual Motivation Aid the Implicit Learning of Signs at First Exposure?2
Inventing and Reinventing the Cog: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”2
Costs and Benefits of Spacing for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Does Relearning Override the Positive and Negative Effects of Spacing?2
Investigating Effects of Bilingualism on Syntactic Processing: Testing Structural Sensitivity Theory2
Longitudinal Predictors of Listening Comprehension in Bilingual Primary School‐Aged Children2
Overcoming Challenges to Open Research Practices – A Perspective From the Global South: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”2
Repetition and Incidental Learning of Multiword Units: A Conceptual Multisite Replication Study of Webb, Newton, and Chang (2013)2
(Ir)regular Mood Swings: Lexical Variability in Heritage Speakers’ Oral Production of Subjunctive Mood2
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The Effect of COVID‐Related Quarantine and Attitudes on Time Conceptualization: Evidence From Temporal Focus and Implicit Space‐Time Mappings2
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Even in a Relatively New Field We Can Learn From the Past to Build a More Robust Future: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past 2
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“Are There Any Mexicans Listening?” Stancetaking and Language Ideologies in a Spanish L2 Classroom1
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Willingness to Communicate, Speaking Self‐Efficacy, and Perceived Communicative Competence as Predictors of Second Language Spoken Task Production1
Improving Second Language Vowel Production With Hand Gestures Encoding Visible Articulation: Evidence From Picture‐Naming and Paragraph‐Reading Tasks1
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Diving Deep Into the Relationship Between Speech Fluency and Second Language Proficiency: A Meta‐Analysis1
Transdisciplinary Intersections in Second Language Pronunciation Learning and Teaching1
The Bidirectionality of Pragmatic Transfer in Chinese English Language Learners' Compliment Responses: The Effects of Second Language Proficiency1
Distributional Cues in Construction Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Native and Nonnative English Speakers Using the As‐Predicative Construction1
The Role of Cognates and Language Distance in Simultaneous Bilingual Children's Productive Vocabulary Acquisition1
Exploring “Intersubjectivity Negotiation Episodes” and “Language Related Episodes” in Second‐Language Peer Interaction1
Modeling the Effects of Task Repetition in Second Language Writing: Examining Interindividual and Intraindividual Variability1
Learning Novel Words in an Immersive Virtual‐Reality Context: Tracking Lexicalization Through Behavioral and Event‐Related‐Potential Measures1
CLASSIC Utterance Boundary: A Chunking‐Based Model of Early Naturalistic Word Segmentation1
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Context and Generalizability in Multisite L2 Classroom Research: The Impact of Deductive Versus Guided Inductive Instruction1
Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview1
Delinking to Learn From Youth Expressive Practitioners of the Everyday: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”1
Revisiting Text Readability and Processing Effort in Second Language Reading: Bayesian Analysis of Eye‐Tracking Data1
“That Was a Good One”: Talking About Irony in Study Abroad1
How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees1
Self‐Repair in Hearing L2 Learners’ Spontaneous Signing: A Developmental Study1
Cognitive–Linguistic Skills Explain Chinese Reading Comprehension Within and Beyond the Simple View of Reading in Hong Kong Kindergarteners1
Rejecting Competence – Essentialist Constructs Reproduce Ableism and White Supremacy in Linguistic Theory: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of 1
Is Second Language Attrition Inevitable After Instruction Ends? An Exploratory Longitudinal Study of Advanced Instructed Second Language Users1
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Whither Bilinguals, Natives, and Variability? A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”1
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Event Boundaries Stretched and Compressed by Aspect: Temporal Segmentation in a First and a Second Language1
Listening, Reading, or Both? Rethinking the Comprehension Benefits of Reading‐While‐Listening1
The Role of Explicit Memory Across Second Language Syntactic Development: A Structural Priming Study1
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Signature Dynamics of Development in Second Language Sociolinguistic Competence: Evidence From an Intensive Microlongitudinal Study1
Roles of Domain‐General Auditory Processing in Second Language Speech Learning Revisited: What Degree of Precision Makes a Difference?1
Practice Makes Perfect, but How Much Is Necessary? The Role of Relearning in Second Language Grammar Acquisition1
Effect of Teacher–Student Interaction on Language Learning Under Anxiety: An fNIRS‐Based Hyperscanning Study1
Chinese Learners of English Are Conceptually Blind to Temporal Differences Conveyed by Tense1
The Evolution of Science in Second Language Acquisition Research: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”1
Priming Ditransitives in Native Speakers and Learners of Mandarin: Error‐Driven Learning Affects Production but Not Real‐Time Predictive Processing1
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