Applied Linguistics

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Linguistics is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Motivation, Autonomy, and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning: A Multi-Perspective Investigation in Hungary117
The Effects of CLIL and Sources of Individual Differences on Receptive and Productive EFL Skills at the Onset of Primary School78
The Minority Language as a Second Language: Challenges and Achievements58
A Call for Methodological Reflexivity in Researching Language Testing and Migration54
Vera Sotirovska and Margaret Vaughn: Enhancing Educators’ Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Critical Literacy49
Metapragmatic Knowledge and Transfer of Learning across Speech Acts43
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time43
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions35
COVID-19 Online Medical Consultation: Understanding the Affective Practice35
Suresh Canagarajah: LANGUAGE INCOMPETENCE: LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE THROUGH CANCER, DISABILITY, AND ANOMALOUS EMBODIMENT33
Notes On Contributors33
“Becoming a Linguist: Advice from Key Thinkers in Language Studies”32
Translingual Practices: Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver, and Li Wei30
Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education27
Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging The Invention of Multilingualism26
Automatic Analysis of Constructional Diversity as a Predictor of EFL Students’ Writing Proficiency24
Translanguaging and Educational Inequality in the Global South: Stance-taking amongst Brazilian Teachers of English24
Revisiting US Undergraduate Perceptions of Non-native English Varieties: From Millennials to Generation Z23
Open Access Academic Lectures as Sources for Incidental Vocabulary Learning: Examining the Role of Input Mode, Frequency, Type of Vocabulary, and Elaboration22
Research Engagement and Research Culture in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT): Empowering the Profession21
Researching language at street level: In memory of Vivian Cook and review of The Language of the English Street Sign20
Gig Economy Teaching: On the Importance and Dangers of Self-branding in Online Markets20
Challenging Folk-Linguistics: Grammatical and Spelling Variation in Students’ Writing in Hebrew on WhatsApp and in Essays20
Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing20
#FleeingWuhan: Legitimation and Delegitimation Strategies in Hostile Online Discourse19
Language tester identity in policy contexts: A narrative analytical approach19
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis18
Towards Clarification of the Second Language Learner Engagement Construct: Taking Stock of its Conceptual Overlap and Hierarchical Structure18
Voice and Voicing Strategies Across Native and Second Language Writing: Extending the Interactional Metadiscourse Framework16
Language and Culture as Sources of Inequality in US Police Interrogations16
Fact vs. fiction in professional speechwriting15
Culture travellers: Theorizing transculturing through transcultural fandom in the GenAI age15
What Makes an Ideal Partner? African Libraries and Neoliberal Discourses in International Development15
A semiotic study of small-detailed signs in North America vernacular landscape15
British Conversation is Changing: Resonance and Engagement in the BNC1994 and the BNC201415
Which Words Matter Most? Operationalizing Lexical Prevalence For Rank-Ordered Word Lists15
Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching15
The ‘Existential Fabric’ of War: Explaining the Phrase of War in the Laws of War15
Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction: Affect, Behavior, and Cognition14
Correction to: A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education14
Self-access Strategy Instruction for Academic Writing Vocabulary: What Learners Actually Do14
Variation in Metadiscourse across Speech and Writing: A Multidimensional Study13
Self-Regulated Learning and Knowledge Blindness: Bringing Language into View12
Notes on Contributors12
Empowering Students Through the Construction of a Translanguaging Space in an English as a First Language Classroom12
A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education12
Choreographies of Multilingualism. Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore.12
Writing Trajectories of Grammatical Complexity at the University: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers in BAWE11
Practice and Automatization in Second Language Research: Perspectives From Skill Acquisition Theory and Cognitive Psychology11
Verb semantic cohesion in L2 production: a semantic network analysis of written and spoken modalities by Korean EFL learners11
Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions11
English in China: Creativity and commodificationCapital, commodity, and English language teaching10
Gregory Hadley and Andrew Boon: Critical Thinking10
“It’s very well written!”: Revisiting praise in teacher written feedback from the perspective of feedback literacy10
The Relationship Between L2 Interactional Competence and Proficiency10
Managing the Flow of Talk: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Multiword Expression det er sant in L2 Norwegian Interactions9
Generative AI and its dilemmas: exploring AI from a translanguaging perspective9
Teachers Reflecting on Boredom in the Language Classroom: Mirosław Pawlak, Mariusz Kruk, and Joanna Zawodniak9
Adopting social process tracing in applied linguistics: Lessons from an English-medium Instruction policy case study9
Engaging with language play: practices of Korean English teachers in elementary classrooms9
COVID-19 vaccination campaigns for diverse language groups in Pennsylvania/USA and Western Cape/South Africa: Examples from national and sub-national levels9
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–20209
Correction to: Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing9
Transitioning between ‘Outside’ and ‘Inside’ Knowledge in an Online University EMI Chemistry Course8
A Decolonial Crip Linguistics8
Jean Wong and Hansun Zhang Waring: Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers8
Linguistic and Geographic Diversity in Research on Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism: An Analysis of Selected Journals8
Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data8
An exploration of psychological capital resources, mindfulness, L2 grit, and L2 achievement: An explanatory mixed-methods study8
Teaching Styles in North American University Classrooms: A Corpus-Driven Linguistic Analysis8
‘Mentor, friend, teacher, and learner’: The beauty, opportunities, and challenges of heritage speakers as heritage language educators7
The Comprehensibility and Appreciation of Non-Binary Pronouns in Newspaper Reporting. The Case of Hen and Die in Dutch7
The Handbook Of Usage-Based Linguistics7
L2 Pragmatic Development in Constructing and Negotiating Contextual Meanings7
Correction7
Language Assemblages7
The Discourse of Digital Activism: A Linguistic Analysis of Calls for Action Concerning the Fashion Revolution7
Enhancing disciplinary voice through feedback-seeking in AI-assisted doctoral writing for publication6
Rethinking translanguaging: (Trans)bordering, spatiality, and academic discourse socialization in a graduate TESOL classroom6
Comparative analysis of epistemic stance in abstracts of published biomedical research and associated National Institutes of Health funding applications (1985–2020)6
Belonging-in-Interaction: Expressing and Performing Translocal Belongings Through Language and Arts Practice6
Correction to: Connecting Extramural English with ELT: Teacher Reports from Austria, Finland, France and Sweden6
Notes On Contributors6
The development and trends of complex dynamic systems theory in applied linguistics: A bibliometric analysis from 1997 to 20236
Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency: Motivation, cognition and identity6
Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research5
Examining English language learners’ longitudinal development of syntactic complexity across five CEFR levels with a robust measurement design: A mixed-methods approach5
Translanguaging Practices in Content-based Instruction in L2 Arabic5
Modeling Intra- and Inter-individual Changes in L2 Classroom Engagement5
Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines5
Linguistic discrimination and resistance: Puerto Rican youth language ideologies5
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking Corpus Compilation and Analysis5
From Silence to Silencing? Contradictions and Tensions in Language Revitalization5
Making the Case for Audience Design in Conversational AI: Users’ Pragmatic Strategies and Rapport Expectations in Interaction with a Task-Oriented Chatbot5
Correction to: Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions5
Teachers as influencers and personal brands on Instagram: double-tapping language ideologies in the attention economy4
Transformation of Applied Linguistics in the Global South Context of Bangladesh: Researcher Agency, Imagination, and North-South Cooperation4
Interpreting Swearwords in Police Interviews and Perceived Offensiveness of Insults in the UK and Spain4
Four decades of research on multiword expressions: A bibliometric analysis4
Towards Epistemic Justice: Constructing Knowers in Multilingual Classrooms4
Mobile Assisted Language Learning Across Educational Contexts4
Correction to: Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–20204
English-medium instruction in European higher education: Measurement validity and the state of play in 2023/20244
Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: An investigation of the Foreign Language Effect4
Effects of the Continuation Task and the RCC Task on Japanese as a Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning4
The Effect of Automatic Text Simplification on L2 Readers’ Text Comprehension4
Purpose and Strategic Engagement in Informal English Digital Activities and Aspects of Vocabulary Knowledge4
The pragmatism of emotional-expressive words in Kazakh linguistics: A study of M. Auezov’s ‘The Way of Abai’4
Contribution of linguistic complexity to L2 learners’ perception on Chinese text comprehensibility and reading speed: a comparative judgment approach4
Destabilizing Racial Discourses in Casual Talk-in-interaction4
A neglected area: Elementary school EFL education and teacher self-efficacy3
Individual Differences in Second Language Learning: A Book Review of Kristin Kersten and Adam Winsler (2023) And Shaofeng Li, Phil Hiver, and Mostafa Papi (2022)3
Notes on Contributors3
Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education: Criticality, Decolonization, and Social Justice: Derek Hird3
Vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary use in writing: A cross-sectional comparison of L2 English and L2 French3
English-Medium Instruction in International Bio-Science Engineering Programs in Vietnam: Incentivization, Support, and Discretion in a Context of Academic Consolidation3
A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Second Language Pragmatics Instruction3
Virtuous Outlaws: Affective Claims to Value in Professional Speechwriters’ Discourse3
Correction to: Handoyo Puji Widodo, Alistair Wood, and Deepti Gupta: Asian English Language Classrooms: Where Theory and Practice Meet3
Sadeghi Karim and Ghaderi Farah (Eds): Theory and Practice in Second Language Teacher Identity: Researching, Theorising and Enacting3
ELF Density: Extending English as a Lingua Franca Research to Monological ELF Texts and Speeches3
The effects of typographic enhancement on L2 collocation processing and learning from reading: An eye-tracking study3
Transprogramming in the primary-level programming lessons: reconceptualizing translanguaging in the era of artificial intelligence3
Notes On Contributors3
Problematizing Possible -isms in Adult Second Language Classrooms3
Multilingual Realities, Monolingual Ideologies: Social Media Representations of Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States3
David M. Palfreyman and Nizar Habash (Eds): Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis3
Collecting Big Data Through Citizen Science: Gamification and Game-based Approaches to Data Collection in Applied Linguistics3
New Methods for Tracking Development of Sociophonetic Competence: Exploring a Preference Task for Spanish /d/ Deletion3
Implementing the ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements: The Localization of Aviation English Testing3
Exploring artificial intelligence appraisal: Appraisal patterns in GPT-generated and human-authored book reviews3
Weight Stigma: Towards a Language-Informed Analytical Framework3
Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and Applications: by Shu-Ling Wu, Lihong Huang and Carl Polley2
Move–Bundle Connection in Conclusion Sections of Research Articles Across Disciplines2
Discourse-based approaches to autistic focussed interests: Understanding shared focus, mutual accommodation, and multimodal expression2
Marrying Collective Wisdom: Researcher-practitioner Collaboration in Developing ELT Textbooks2
Online commenting culture and ideologies of language learning: Masculinities, optimization and techno-solutionism in an informal learning community2
Automatized phonological vocabulary knowledge as L2 cognitive fluency: Testing the declarative–automatized integrative model in L2 speech production2
Validating the Short-form Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale2
Behind the screen: Turning to language work in the movies2
The Twenty Most Effective Language Teaching Techniques: Ian Stephen Paul Nation2
Accent Bias in Professional Evaluations: A Conceptual Replication Study in Brazil2
To what extent does reviewing notes affect L2 vocabulary learning?2
Correction to: The Causal Relationship between Learner Motivation and Language Achievement: New Dynamic Perspective2
From pop psychology to L2 pedagogy: The ‘Let Them Theory’ as a reflective frame in applied linguistics2
It’s an Imagined Fuṣḥatopia: Teacher Language Ideologies and Multilingual Practices in Arabic Heritage Learning in the United States2
Paths to cultural adjustment: A configurational analysis of individual, sociocultural, and environmental factors in the experiences of international students2
‘We can fix this. Let’s get you out of trouble, son’: an analysis of the transitivity and appraisal patterns in the Netflix TV show When They See Us2
Testing Talk: Ways to Assess Second Language Oral Proficiency2
Critical intersubjectivity: Leveraging designed narratives to mitigate language ideologies in preservice teacher education2
How Do Students Receive Help from Teachers? Initiating Assistance in Small Group Classroom Interactions2
Multi-discourse Modes in Student Writing: Effects of Combining Narrative and Argument Discourse Modes on Argumentative Essay Scores2
Do Examiners and Test-takers imitate each other? Dialogic resonance in second language testing2
How many L2 word meanings can learners recall? A latent trait approach to vocabulary size estimation2
Emotional, Attitudinal, and Sociobiographical Sources of Flow in Online and In-Person EFL Classrooms2
Unveiling the dynamics of learner engagement: An idiodynamic investigation of L2 speaking tasks2
Are Textbooks Authentic From a Developmental Perspective? A Corpus Analysis of Word Use in Chinese Textbooks in US Universities2
English in Specialized Communication and its Impact on Spanish Medical Lexicon1
Pockets of Possibility: Students of English in Diverse, Multilingual Secondary Schools in Austria1
Unpacking translanguaging practices in intercultural healthcare communication: Experiences of international medical students in a Chinese hospital1
Notes on Contributors1
Refashioning linguistic expertise: Translanguaging TESOL in social media1
Narrative Skills in Mandarin–English Dual Language Immersion Learners1
Corpus Linguistics And Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives, Issues, And Findings1
The Art of the Possible: The Constraints Associated with Writing Local TESOL Textbooks1
Linguistic dissociation: A general theory to explain the phenomenon of linguistic distancing behaviours1
Task Planning and Oral L2 Production: A Research Synthesis and Meta-analysis1
Spanish–English cognates and false cognates in academic spoken vocabulary: Lexical coverage, orthographic, and phonological transparency, and frequency1
Multimodal Academic Discourse Socialization: Examining Geoscience Students’ Disciplinary Knowledge Construction and Socialization at a Canadian University1
Revisiting the Construct Validity of Self-Regulating Capacity in Vocabulary Learning Scale: The Confirmatory Composite Analysis (CCA) Approach1
Measuring the impact of academic literacy interventions: Refining an evaluation design through self-reflection and feedback1
Correction to: A Translanguaging Perspective on Teacher Contingency in Hong Kong English Medium Instruction History Classrooms1
“Man, I don’t know anything”: Students insights into Afro-Latinx (re)presentation in Spanish textbooks1
Capturing Thresholds and Continuities: Individual Differences as Predictors of L2 Sociolinguistic Repertoires in Adult Migrant Learners in Austria1
Unilingualism and Unibilingualism in Colombia1
Decolonizing US Latinx Students’ Language: El Sur in the Schools of El Norte1
Applied Linguistics Communities of Practice: Improving the Research Practice Relationship1
The Socio-Educational Model: An Evidence-Based Re-evaluation1
Heritage Language Instruction to Young Immigrants: An In-depth Look at the Psycholinguistic Effects During the Simultaneous Acquisition of Two Second Languages1
Firebreak, circuit break, or water break? The impact of metaphor on people’s perception and attitudes towards lockdown measures1
L1 and L2 use in pre-task planning and task repetition: The role of proficiency1
Linguistic Features Distinguishing Students’ Writing Ability Aligned with CEFR Levels1
‘Rising Number of Homeless is the Legacy of Tory Failure’: Discoursal Changes and Transitivity Patterns in the Representation of Homelessness in The Guardian and Daily Mail from 2000 to 1
Translanguaging in practice: A motherscholar’s journey to nurture Cantonese heritage language development1
Processing Pronouns of Address in a Job Interview in French and German1
Colonizability and Hermeneutical Injustice in Applied Linguistics Research: (Im)possibilities for Epistemological Delinking1
How Children Read Multilingual Texts: A Description of Reading Translanguaging Strategies1
Reflexivity in human-written and ChatGPT-generated English research article abstracts: A comparison of metadiscourse1
Failing Fortunes of Applied Linguistics: Towards Surviving Mastery1
Can GPT-4 learn to analyse moves in research article abstracts?1
Carmen Pérez-Llantada: RESEARCH GENRES ACROSS LANGUAGES: MULTILINGUAL COMMUNICATION ONLINE1
Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Developmental Education1
Sketches Toward a Decolonial Applied Linguistics1
Diversity and Standards in Writing for Publication in the Age of AI—Between a Rock and a Hard Place1
Topic and Accent Coverage in a Commercialized L2 Listening Test: Implications for Test-takers’ Identity1
The Impact of Filipina Domestic Workers on Hong Kong Primary School Children’s L2 English Spoken CAF and Reading Accuracy and Fluency1
Can sentiment analysis help to assess accuracy in interpreting? A corpus-assisted computational linguistic approach1
A Migrant’s Chronotopic Identities in Playful Talk in a Classroom1
“Bridging cultures with love”: Spirituality in fostering intercultural effectiveness. The effects of language1
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