OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Learning is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	90
Issue Information	58
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What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary	45
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception	37
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language	27
Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)	26
To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?	23
Order Effects in Second Language Learning	23
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)	23
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning	23
Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability	22
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals	20
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Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing	18
Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’	18
The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands	17
Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist	15
Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages	14
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration	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
Optionality, Complexity, Difficulty: The Next Step: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”	12
Heading South, Unmuting Multilingualisms: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education”	12
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?”	12
Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overv	11

A Commentary on “Proactive Language Learning Theory”	11
Dialect‐Specific Modes Influence Second Language Production: Evidence From Bidialectal Shanghai–Mandarin Chinese Learners of English Within the Second Language Linguistic Perception Model	11
Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences	11
Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”	11
Assessing Verb‐Construction Integration in Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Analyses of Written and Spoken Production	11
Study Abroad Students’ Social Contacts in Different Linguistic Contexts and Their Relationship With English Use and Development	11
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 L	10
Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian	10
Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood	10
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)	10
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation	9
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Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study	9
Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions	8
Issue Information	8
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”	8
The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language	8
Phraseological Use and Development During a Stay Abroad: Exploring Sensitivity to Frequency and Cue Contingency	8
Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study	8
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder	8
Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses	8
The Unbearable Whiteness of Communicative Competence Research: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”	8
Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education	8
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
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	7
Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials	7
The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	7
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study	7
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment	7
From a Molar to a Molecular Approach to the Developmental Trajectory of Syntax Comprehension of Persons with Intellectual Disability	7
Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable	7
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study	7
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Issue Information	6
Social Aspects in Language Learning: New Perspectives from Study‐Abroad Research	6
Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children	6
Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment	6
Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective	6
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning Sign Languages as Additional Languages: Considering Language‐ and Modality‐Specific Factors	6
On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	6
Proactive Language Learning Theory	6
Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension	6
Issue Information	6
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 Writing	6
Undesirable Difficulty of Interleaved Practice: The Importance of Initial Blocked Practice for Declarative Knowledge Development in Low‐Achieving Adolescents	6
Uncovering Sampling Biases, Advancing Inclusivity, and Rethinking Theoretical Accounts in Second Language Acquisition: Introduction to the Special Issue SLA for All?	5
Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension	5
Teachers’ Verbal Lexical Explanation for Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	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 Educati	5
Declarative and Automatized Phonological Vocabulary Knowledge: Recognition, Recall, Lexicosemantic Judgment, and Listening‐Focused Employability of Second Language Words	5
Process and Product in ISLA Research: Courage, Commitment, and Tolerance for Ambiguity	5