Language Learning

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Learning 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.)
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To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?40
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning36
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals34
Prosody in Pragmatic Competence: Proficiency Impact on Pitch and Fluency Features in Request‐Making in Second Language Chinese31
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception31
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language28
Order Effects in Second Language Learning27
Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability27
What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary24
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)23
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Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)22
The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands21
Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist19
Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions18
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing17
Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’17
Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages17
Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)15
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration15
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?”14
Assessing Verb‐Construction Integration in Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Analyses of Written and Spoken Production14
Optionality, Complexity, Difficulty: The Next Step: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”14
Where is Community Involvement in Open Science? A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”14
Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overv14
Heading South, Unmuting Multilingualisms: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education”14
Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”14
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 L13
Study Abroad Students’ Social Contacts in Different Linguistic Contexts and Their Relationship With English Use and Development13
Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood13
Dialect‐Specific Modes Influence Second Language Production: Evidence From Bidialectal Shanghai–Mandarin Chinese Learners of English Within the Second Language Linguistic Perception Model13
Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian13
A Commentary on “Proactive Language Learning Theory”13
The Unbearable Whiteness of Communicative Competence Research: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”12
Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences12
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation12
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)12
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Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study12
The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language10
Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study10
Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions10
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder10
Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses10
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study10
Incorporating Co‐occurrence Into the Operationalization of Speech Disfluency for Second Language Pronunciation and Oral Proficiency Assessment10
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
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Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education10
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study9
Phraseological Use and Development During a Stay Abroad: Exploring Sensitivity to Frequency and Cue Contingency9
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?”8
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis8
Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language8
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Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension8
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment8
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Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning7
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The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries7
Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable7
Developing an Automatic Pronunciation Scorer: Aligning Speech Evaluation Models and Applied Linguistics Constructs7
Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials7
The Role of Prosody in International Communication in English in Call Center Interactions6
Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective6
Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children6
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Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment6
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”6
Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing6
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning Sign Languages as Additional Languages: Considering Language‐ and Modality‐Specific Factors5
What Really Drives Language Learning Success: Talent or Hard Work?5
Undesirable Difficulty of Interleaved Practice: The Importance of Initial Blocked Practice for Declarative Knowledge Development in Low‐Achieving Adolescents5
Declarative and Automatized Phonological Vocabulary Knowledge: Recognition, Recall, Lexicosemantic Judgment, and Listening‐Focused Employability of Second Language Words5
Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language5
Social Aspects in Language Learning: New Perspectives from Study‐Abroad Research5
Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension5
Teachers’ Verbal Lexical Explanation for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Meta‐Analysis5
On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries5
Process and Product in ISLA Research: Courage, Commitment, and Tolerance for Ambiguity5
Uncovering Sampling Biases, Advancing Inclusivity, and Rethinking Theoretical Accounts in Second Language Acquisition: Introduction to the Special Issue SLA for All?5
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 Educati5
Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes4
Peer Interaction Dynamics and Second Language Learning Trajectories During Study Abroad: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Dynamic Computational Social Network Analysis4
Unraveling the Complexities of Second Language Lexical Stress Processing: The Impact of First Language Transfer, Second Language Proficiency, and Exposure4
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Incidental and Multimodal High Variability Phonetic Training: Potential, Limits, and Future Directions4
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”4
Implicit Learning in Production: Productive Generalization of New Form–Meaning Connections in the Absence of Awareness4
What Is the Ideal Time to Provide Corrective Feedback? An Approximate Replication of Li, Zhu, and Ellis (2016)4
Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension4
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
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
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”4
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Captioned Viewing: A Meta‐Analysis4
Lexico‐Semantic Attrition of Native Language: Evidence From Russian–Hebrew Bilinguals4
Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals4
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Engaging Indigenous Language Learning Through Relational Accountability: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”4
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Disambiguating Complexity: From CAF to CAFIC: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”3
Measuring Teenage Learners’ Automatized, Explicit, and/or Implicit Knowledge: A Question of Context?3
Rethinking First Language–Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project3
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 3
Testing the Relationship of Linguistic Complexity to Second Language Learners’ Comparative Judgment on Text Difficulty3
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
Artificial Intelligence‐Generated Feedback for Second Language Intelligibility: An Exploratory Intervention Study on Effects and Perceptions3
Zoltán Dörnyei (1960–2022)3
Linguistic Priming and Learning Adjacent and Nonadjacent Dependencies in Serial Reaction Time Tasks3
Move, Rove, Love: Color Cues Help Learning Novel English Words When Pronunciation Is Not Predictable From Spelling3
Investigating Effects of Bilingualism on Syntactic Processing: Testing Structural Sensitivity Theory3
L2 Learners’ Signed Language Processing Relates, in Part, to Perspective‐Taking Skills3
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Incidental Learning of Collocations in an Academic Lecture Through Different Input Modes3
Simulating the Relationship Between Nonword Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2‐Year‐Olds: Evidence From the Language 0–5 Project3
Investigating the Relation Between Second Language Proficiency and Study Success Using a Causal Inference Approach3
Costs and Benefits of Spacing for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Does Relearning Override the Positive and Negative Effects of Spacing?3
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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?”3
Neural Evidence for Syntactic Unification in Second Language Sentence Comprehension: A Time‐Frequency Analysis3
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The Association Between Metalinguistic Awareness and Chinese Word Reading: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis3
Which Aspects of Visual Motivation Aid the Implicit Learning of Signs at First Exposure?2
Longitudinal Predictors of Listening Comprehension in Bilingual Primary School‐Aged Children2
CLASSIC Utterance Boundary: A Chunking‐Based Model of Early Naturalistic Word Segmentation2
Crowdsourced Adaptive Comparative Judgment: A Community‐Based Solution for Proficiency Rating2
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Modeling the Effects of Task Repetition in Second Language Writing: Examining Interindividual and Intraindividual Variability2
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Priming Ditransitives in Native Speakers and Learners of Mandarin: Error‐Driven Learning Affects Production but Not Real‐Time Predictive Processing2
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Contrasting Fixed‐ and Mixed‐Effects Modeling in Vocabulary Research: Reanalyzing Laufer (2024) and McLean et al. (2020)2
The Effect of COVID‐Related Quarantine and Attitudes on Time Conceptualization: Evidence From Temporal Focus and Implicit Space‐Time Mappings2
From Play to Language: Infants’ Actions on Objects Cascade to Word Learning2
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
(Ir)regular Mood Swings: Lexical Variability in Heritage Speakers’ Oral Production of Subjunctive Mood2
Exploring “Intersubjectivity Negotiation Episodes” and “Language Related Episodes” in Second‐Language Peer Interaction2
Rejecting Competence – Essentialist Constructs Reproduce Ableism and White Supremacy in Linguistic Theory: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of 2
Repetition and Incidental Learning of Multiword Units: A Conceptual Multisite Replication Study of Webb, Newton, and Chang (2013)2
Error‐Correction Mechanisms in Language Learning: Modeling Individuals2
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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
A Generative Approach to the Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Spanish se2
Inventing and Reinventing the Cog: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”2
How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse2
The Bidirectionality of Pragmatic Transfer in Chinese English Language Learners' Compliment Responses: The Effects of Second Language Proficiency2
Is Second Language Attrition Inevitable After Instruction Ends? An Exploratory Longitudinal Study of Advanced Instructed Second Language Users2
Effect of Teacher–Student Interaction on Language Learning Under Anxiety: An fNIRS‐Based Hyperscanning Study2
Spacing Effects in Task Repetition Research2
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”2
Iconicity and Gesture Jointly Facilitate Learning of Second Language Signs at First Exposure in Hearing Nonsigners2
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