OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Learning is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	150
Issue Information	92
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Prosody in Pragmatic Competence: Proficiency Impact on Pitch and Fluency Features in Request‐Making in Second Language Chinese	46
Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability	42
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals	35
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)	29
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language	28
Order Effects in Second Language Learning	26
What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary	26
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception	26
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning	21
To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?	20
Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)	20
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The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands	18
Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)	18
Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist	18
Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions	17
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing	17
Vocabulary Opens the Door; Creativity Guides the Search: Complementary Contributions to Second Language Semantic Fluency Across Domains	17
Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’	17
Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency Through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration	16
Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages	16
Optionality, Complexity, Difficulty: The Next Step: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”	15

Where is Community Involvement in Open Science? A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”	15
Heading South, Unmuting Multilingualisms: A Commentary on “Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education”	15
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?”	15
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
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	14
First Language Literacy and Second Language Oracy: A Partial Replication of Foster and Skehan (1996)	13
From Script to Sound: Exploring Orthographic Influence on the Lexical Learning of Nonnative Speech Sounds	13
Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian	13
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	13
Study Abroad Students’ Social Contacts in Different Linguistic Contexts and Their Relationship With English Use and Development	12
Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences	12
A Commentary on “Proactive Language Learning Theory”	12
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder	11
The Unbearable Whiteness of Communicative Competence Research: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics”	11
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”	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
Midadolescents’ Language Learning at School: Toward More Just and Scientifically Rigorous Practices in Research and Education	10
Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study	10
Incorporating Co‐occurrence Into the Operationalization of Speech Disfluency for Second Language Pronunciation and Oral Proficiency Assessment	10
Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation	10
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?”	9
Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses	9
Lexical Effects on Second Language Grammar Acquisition: Testing Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Predictions	9
Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment	9
Phraseological Use and Development During a Stay Abroad: Exploring Sensitivity to Frequency and Cue Contingency	9
Do Implicit Learning Deficit and Dyslexia Go Together? An fMRI and Behavioral Study	9
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Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning	8
Vocabulary and Processing Speed Explain Reading and Writing Disparities Between Linguistic Groups in Higher Education	8
Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language	8
Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable	8
Developing an Automatic Pronunciation Scorer: Aligning Speech Evaluation Models and Applied Linguistics Constructs	8
Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials	8
Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension	8
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The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	8
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Contextual Learning of New Meanings for Familiar Words: Perturbation of Original Meanings Occurs Without Deliberate Study	7
Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language	7
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”	7
The Role of Prosody in International Communication in English in Call Center Interactions	7
What Really Drives Language Learning Success: Talent or Hard Work?	7
Issue Information	7
Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment	7
On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries	7
Effects of Task Instructions on Predictive Eye Movements and Word Recognition During Second Language Sentence Comprehension	6
Issue Information	6
Social Aspects in Language Learning: New Perspectives from Study‐Abroad Research	6
Proactive Language Learning Theory	6
Declarative and Automatized Phonological Vocabulary Knowledge: Recognition, Recall, Lexicosemantic Judgment, and Listening‐Focused Employability of Second Language Words	6

Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children	6
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	6
Uncovering Sampling Biases, Advancing Inclusivity, and Rethinking Theoretical Accounts in Second Language Acquisition: Introduction to the Special Issue SLA for All?	6
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning Sign Languages as Additional Languages: Considering Language‐ and Modality‐Specific Factors	6
Overexplicit Second Language Reference: Evidence for the Cognitive Load Hypothesis	6
Undesirable Difficulty of Interleaved Practice: The Importance of Initial Blocked Practice for Declarative Knowledge Development in Low‐Achieving Adolescents	6
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