OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Learning is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Learning Novel Words in an Immersive Virtual‐Reality Context: Tracking Lexicalization Through Behavioral and Event‐Related‐Potential Measures	51
The Association Between Metalinguistic Awareness and Chinese Word Reading: A Three‐Level Meta‐Analysis	45
Metacognition in Second Language Speech Perception and Production	32
Whither Bilinguals, Natives, and Variability? A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook”	30
In Search of Variables Explaining Individual Differences in Second Language Learning and Processing: A Commentary on “The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains Fr	27
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From a Molar to a Molecular Approach to the Developmental Trajectory of Syntax Comprehension of Persons with Intellectual Disability	21
The Influence of Native Phonology, Allophony, and Phonotactics on Nonnative Lexical Encoding: A Vocabulary Training Study	21
The Role of Cognates and Language Distance in Simultaneous Bilingual Children's Productive Vocabulary Acquisition	20
Chinese Learners of English Are Conceptually Blind to Temporal Differences Conveyed by Tense	18
Effects of Form‐Focused Practice and Feedback: A Multisite Replication Study of Yang and Lyster (2010)	17
Linguistic Priming and Learning Adjacent and Nonadjacent Dependencies in Serial Reaction Time Tasks	14
Critical Period Claim Revisited: Reanalysis of Hartshorne, Tenenbaum, and Pinker (2018) Suggests Steady Decline and Learner‐Type Differences	14
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Orthographic Priming in Second‐Language Visual Word Recognition	12
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Cognitive–Linguistic Skills Explain Chinese Reading Comprehension Within and Beyond the Simple View of Reading in Hong Kong Kindergarteners	11
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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	10
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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?”	10
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)	9
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Previewing Novel Words Before Reading Affects Their Processing During Reading: An Eye‐Movement Study With First and Second Language Readers	9
Reporting Eye‐Tracking Research in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism: A Synthesis and Field‐Specific Guidelines	8
Generalizing Knowledge of Second Language Collocations: The Roles of Within‐ and Cross‐Language Similarity on Acceptability and Event‐Related Potentials	8
Whole‐Class Co‐Construction in a High School Spanish Classroom: A Conversation Analytic Perspective	8
The Effects of Definition Placement and Lag of Retrieval Practice on Contextual Learning and Retention of Phrasal Verbs	8
Zoltán Dörnyei (1960–2022)	8
To What Extent Do Learner‐ and Word‐Related Variables Affect Production of Derivatives?	8
What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary	8
Diving Deep Into the Relationship Between Speech Fluency and Second Language Proficiency: A Meta‐Analysis	8
Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable	8
Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension: Replicating Hu and Nation (2000)	8
The Influence of Prior Linguistic Knowledge on Second Language Semantic Implicit Learning: Evidence from Cantonese–English Bilinguals	7
Incidental Learning of Collocations in an Academic Lecture Through Different Input Modes	7
An Introduction to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity Special Issue of the Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series	7
The Lang‐Track‐App: Open‐Source Tools for Implementing the Experience Sampling Method in Second Language Acquisition Research	7
Crosslinguistic Differences in Food Labels Do Not Yield Differences in Taste Perception	7
Embodiment for Spatial Metaphors of Abstract Concepts Differs Across Languages in Chinese–English Bilinguals	7
Exploring “Intersubjectivity Negotiation Episodes” and “Language Related Episodes” in Second‐Language Peer Interaction	6
The Bidirectionality of Pragmatic Transfer in Chinese English Language Learners' Compliment Responses: The Effects of Second Language Proficiency	6
Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension	6
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning	6
Meaning‐Inferencing Versus Meaning‐Given Procedures: The Case of Idioms	6
Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language	6
Simulating the Relationship Between Nonword Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2‐Year‐Olds: Evidence From the Language 0–5 Project	6
Order Effects in Second Language Learning	6
Changes in Language Learners’ Affect: A Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective	6
Training Child Learners on Nonnative Vowel Contrasts With Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability	6
The Acquisition of Strategies to Express Plurality in Hearing Second Language Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands	5
English Language Learners’ Comprehension of Logical Relationships in Expository Texts: Evidence for the Confluence of General Vocabulary and Text‐Connecting Functions	5
Neural Evidence for Syntactic Unification in Second Language Sentence Comprehension: A Time‐Frequency Analysis	5
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Signature Dynamics of Development in Second Language Sociolinguistic Competence: Evidence From an Intensive Microlongitudinal Study	5
Naturalization of Competence – Coloniality, Collusion, and Intersectionality: A Commentary on “Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguist	5
Boosting Bilingual Metalinguistic Awareness Under Dual Language Activation: Some Implications for Bilingual Education	5
Relationships Between Phonological Awareness and Reading in Spanish: A Meta‐Analysis	5
Move, Rove, Love: Color Cues Help Learning Novel English Words When Pronunciation Is Not Predictable From Spelling	5
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Study and Scale Quality in Second Language Survey Research, 2009–2019: The Case of Anxiety and Motivation	5
A Sociocultural Perspective: Seeking Evidence of Development in a PACE Approach to Grammar Instruction	4
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Practice Makes Perfect, but How Much Is Necessary? The Role of Relearning in Second Language Grammar Acquisition	4
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Correction to ‘Community, Equity, and Cultural Change in Open Research: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries’	4
Electrophysiological Evidence for a Whorfian Double Dissociation of Categorical Perception Across Two Languages	4
Investigating Orthographic Versus Auditory Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Online and Laboratory‐Based Testing	4