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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
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Prosody in Pragmatic Competence: Proficiency Impact on Pitch and Fluency Features in Request‐Making in Second Language Chinese	50
What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary	37
Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability	31
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)	29
Order Effects in Second Language Learning	29
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language	27
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception	27
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals	24
To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?	22
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning	22
Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)	22
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Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)	19
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing	18
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration	17
The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands	17
Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages	15
Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist	15
Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions	14
Heading South, Unmuting Multilingualisms: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education”	13
Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’	13
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

Where is Community Involvement in Open Science? 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”	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	12
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
Study Abroad Students’ Social Contacts in Different Linguistic Contexts and Their Relationship With English Use and Development	12
Assessing Verb‐Construction Integration in Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Analyses of Written and Spoken Production	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 L	12
Individual Variations in the Mastery of Discourse Connectives from Teenage Years to Adulthood	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
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)	11
Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences	11
Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian	11
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The Effect of Age of Onset of Bilingualism on Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Heritage Language	10
Measuring Foreign Language Students’ Self‐Determination: A Rasch Validation Study	10
Incorporating Co‐occurrence Into the Operationalization of Speech Disfluency for Second Language Pronunciation and Oral Proficiency Assessment	10
A Commentary on “Proactive Language Learning Theory”	10
The Unbearable Whiteness of Communicative Competence Research: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”	10
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder	9
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation	9
Issue Information	9
Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study	9
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”	9
Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education	9
The Effects of Spaced Practice on Second Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis	8
Incidental Vocabulary Learning From Bilingual Subtitled Viewing: An Eye‐Tracking Study	8
Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions	8
Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses	8
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study	8
Phraseological Use and Development During a Stay Abroad: Exploring Sensitivity to Frequency and Cue Contingency	8
Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension	7
From a Molar to a Molecular Approach to the Developmental Trajectory of Syntax Comprehension of Persons with Intellectual Disability	7
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Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable	7
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment	7
Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials	6
The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	6
Developing an Automatic Pronunciation Scorer: Aligning Speech Evaluation Models and Applied Linguistics Constructs	6
Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning	6
Issue Information	6
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?”	6
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Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment	6
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Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children	5
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
Social Aspects in Language Learning: New Perspectives from Study‐Abroad Research	5
Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language	5
Examining Deductive Versus Guided Instruction From an Interactionist Perspective	5
The Role of Prosody in International Communication in English in Call Center Interactions	5

On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning Sign Languages as Additional Languages: Considering Language‐ and Modality‐Specific Factors	5