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Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Second Language Acquisition is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
On the effects of task focus and processing level on the perception–production link in second-language speech learning	175
SLA volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	102
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations	81
Development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations: The roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice condition	51
Comparing the longitudinal development of phraseological complexity across oral and written tasks	43
Estimating reliability for response-time difference measures: Toward a standardized, model-based approach	38
Challenges in inflected word processing for L2 speakers	30
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction	29
EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH	28
Validity evidence for an EIT as an assessment for Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners	28
Co-text, context, and listening proficiency as crucial variables in intelligibility among nonnative users of English – ERRATUM	27
SLA volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	27
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – CORRIGENDUM	26
Mind the gap: Psycholinguistic and individual factors affecting expressive and receptive vocabulary skills in English-Gaelic bilingual children	26
Pretesting effects on incidental L2 vocabulary learning through reading	24
Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: A conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020)	24
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING REVISITED	23
Examining the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for comprehension: An eye-tracking study	20
EXPLORING CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN GENDER MARKING IN SPANISH	20
SLA volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	19
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction – CORRIGENDUM	18
Motivational dispositions predict qualitative differences in oral task performance	18
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction	18
Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills	16
Disentangling the causal role of motivation, enjoyment, and anxiety in second language speech learning: A final report	16

Contextual learning and retention of phrasal verbs	15
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	15
The relationship between boredom and second language achievement: A multilevel meta-analysis	15
Cross-language interactions of phonetic and phonological processes	15
The additive use of prosody and morphosyntax in L2 German	15
The role of first language skills, working memory, and anxiety in second language reading	14
The interplay of mindsets, aptitude, grit, and language achievement: What role does gender play?	14
Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus	14
THE LEMMA DILEMMA	14
Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research	13
Why you should stop using the ideal L2 self and the L2 motivational self-system to measure motivation (Reaction to Al-Hoorie, Hiver & In’nami, 2024)	13
PROSODIC PATTERNS IN SYLHETI-ENGLISH BILINGUALS – ADDENDUM	12
Differential effects of identification and discrimination training tasks on L2 vowel identification and discrimination	12
Development of verb argument constructions in L2 English learners: A close replication of research question 3 in Römer and Berger (2019)	11
Formal computational modelling in second language sentence processing research	11
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN L2 LITERACY ACQUISITION	11
Variability as a functional marker of second language development in older adult learners	11
A longitudinal investigation of the effects of language instruction versus immersion on cognitive functions in young adult Chinese speakers learning English	11
The effects of distributed practice on second language fluency development	11
Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons	11
Study and instrument quality in perception-based L2 pronunciation research	11
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016)	10
Reevaluating trials to criterion as a measure in second language research	10
How well are primary and secondary meanings of L2 words acquired?	10
SLA volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	10
SLA volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	10
Sense-aware connective-based indices of cohesion and their relationship to cohesion ratings of English language learners’ written production	10
Task-generated processes in second language speech production: Exploring the neural correlates of task complexity during silent pauses	10
How to present L2 Chinese words effectively for learning: Exploring learning outcomes and learner perceptions	9
Text recall and use of advance organisers in first and second language	9
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study	9
LONGITUDINAL L2 DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROSODIC MARKING OF PRAGMATIC MEANING	9
Longitudinal development of second language utterance fluency, cognitive fluency, and their relationship	8
Introduction to the special issue on working memory and L2 writing: Implications for SLA individual differences research	8
The effects of proficiency level and dual-task condition on L2 self-monitoring behavior	8
Acceptance and engagement patterns of mobile-assisted language learning among non-conventional adult L2 learners: A survival analysis	7
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading	7
SLA volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	7
DOUBLE-NUMBER MARKING MATTERS FOR BOTH L1 AND L2 PROCESSING OF NONLOCAL AGREEMENT SIMILARLY	7
SLA volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	7
Affect as a component of second language speech perception	7
Manufactured crisis	7
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children – ADDENDUM	7
EFFECT SIZE–DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES	7
Second language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts	7
Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach	7
The 2024 Albert Valdman Award	6
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – CORRIGENDUM – RETRACTION	6
Multilingualism and native speakerism in academic journals’ language policies: Exploring a potential power of applied linguistics journals in promoting equitable publishing practices	6
Predicting L2-Spanish fluency from L1-English fluency and L2 proficiency: A conceptual replication	6

Do they like me?	6
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading – ERRATUM	6
Kimberly Geeslin, In Memoriam	6
The interpretation of verbal moods in Spanish: A close replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014)	6
Saving the reliability of inhibitory control measures? An extension of Huensch (2024) and Hui and Wu (2024)	6
Individual differences in L2 listening proficiency revisited: Roles of form, meaning, and use aspects of phonological vocabulary knowledge	6
Meta-analysis of second language research with complex research designs	6
“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context	5
SLA volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
SLA volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	5
SLA volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	5
The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency	5
SLA volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	5
SLA volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Do verbal and nonverbal declarative memory tasks in second language research measure the same abilities?	5
PREDICTION AND ERROR-BASED LEARNING IN L2 PROCESSING AND ACQUISITION	5
The 2022 Albert Valdman Award	5
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE-LINGUISTIC TASK DIFFICULTY AND L1-L2 INTERACTION FOR ACADEMIC LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN TURKISH–DUTCH EMERGENT BILINGUALS	4
A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency	4
Learning without awareness revisited and reconsidered	4
SLA volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children	4
Cognitive individual differences in the process and product of L2 writing	4
Foreign language learning boredom: Refining its measurement and determining its role in language learning	4
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
The effects of interleaved and blocked corpus-based practice on L2 pragmatic development	4
Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study	4
Spanish heritage language learners’ motivational profile in the postsecondary classroom: Insights from psychological network modeling	4
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement? – CORRIGENDUM	4
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research	4
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016) – ERRATUM	4
Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail	4
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Task design, L1 literacy, and second language oracy	3
SLA volume 46 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	3
First language effects on incidental vocabulary learning through bimodal input	3
L2 GRIT	3
Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency	3
Meta-analysis of second language research with complex research designs – ADDENDUM	3
SLA volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
SLA volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Inhibitory and facilitative effects of lexical neighbors in spoken word recognition: The role of language experience	3
SELLING THE (WORD) FAMILY SILVER?	3
Usage-based analysis of L2 oral proficiency: Characteristics of argument structure construction use	3
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction – CORRIGENDUM	3
Wh-Dependency Processing in a Naturalistic Exposure Context: Sensitivity to Abstract Syntactic Structure in High-Working-Memory L2 Speakers	3
L2 LEARNERS’ ADAPTATION TO AN L2 STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM L1	3
Modeling relationships between learning conditions, processes, and outcomes: An introduction to mediation analysis in SLA research – CORRIGENDUM	3
The impact of collocational proficiency features on expert ratings of L2 English learners’ writing	3
Revisiting the moderating effect of speaker proficiency on the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish	2
Reexamining the role of regulatory focus in second language achievement	2
SLA volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – RETRACTED	2
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
SLA volume 46 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	2
Understanding L2-derived words in context: Is complete receptive morphological knowledge necessary?	2
WORD FAMILIES AND LEMMAS, NOT A REAL DILEMMA	2
Optimizing the input for learning of L2-specific constructions: The roles of Zipfian and balanced input, explicit rules and working memory	2
Processing to learn noncanonical word orders: Exploring linguistic and cognitive predictors of reanalysis in early L2 sentence comprehension	2
SLA volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement?	2
Perceptual integrality of foreign segmental and tonal information: Dimensional transfer hypothesis	2
Announcing the 2024 Susan Gass Award for Impact in SLA	2
Linguistic dissimilarity increases age-related decline in adult language learning	2
The relationship between poststimulus pause, learner proficiency, and working memory in an Elicited Imitation Task	2
Optimizing distributed practice online: A conceptual replication of Cepeda et al. (2009) – ADDENDUM	2
Modulating motion event categorization through brief training: Meaning-focused versus form-focused instructional conditions	2
Structural priming facilitates L2 learning of the dative alternation in Mandarin	2
Second language anxiety in conversation and its relationship with speakers’ perceptions of the interaction and their social networks	2
The validation crisis in the L2 motivational self system tradition	2
Individual differences in the acquisition of language-specific and dialect-specific allophones of intervocalic /d/ by L2 and heritage Spanish speakers studying abroad in Sevilla	2