Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in Second Language Acquisition 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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SLA volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front matter131
SLA volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Back matter73
SLA volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Front matter67
SLA volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Front matter67
SLA volume 44 issue 5 Cover and Back matter63
REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF OVERTLY IDENTICAL COMPLEX FORMS IN L1 AND L242
THE EFFECTS OF TALKER VARIABILITY AND FREQUENCY OF EXPOSURE ON THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN WORD KNOWLEDGE41
LEARNING ENGLISH IN TODAY’S GLOBAL WORLD37
SLA volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter36
Variability in heritage and second language writers’ linguistic complexity: Roles of proficiency and motivational beliefs – ERRATUM35
Research methods for IDs and TBLT: A substantive and methodological review34
SLA volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back matter32
Estimating reliability for response-time difference measures: Toward a standardized, model-based approach27
Lexical coverage in L1 and L2 viewing comprehension25
Explicit information and working memory in second-language acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive: A replication and extension of Fernández (2008)24
SLA volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter24
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE-LINGUISTIC TASK DIFFICULTY AND L1-L2 INTERACTION FOR ACADEMIC LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN TURKISH–DUTCH EMERGENT BILINGUALS23
Reevaluating trials to criterion as a measure in second language research22
EXPLORING AN ELICITED IMITATION TASK AS A MEASURE OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY21
VOICE ONSET TIME IN MULTILINGUAL SPEAKERS: ITALIAN HERITAGE SPEAKERS IN GERMANY WITH L3 ENGLISH21
Development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations: The roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice condition19
SLA volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front matter19
Exploring the relationship of working memory to the temporal distribution of pausing and revision behaviors during L2 writing19
Sense-aware connective-based indices of cohesion and their relationship to cohesion ratings of English language learners’ written production18
The relationship between social network typology, L2 proficiency growth, and curriculum design in university study abroad17
The effectiveness of note taking through exposure to L2 input: A meta-analysis17
The prediction from MLAT to L2 achievement is largely due to MLAT assessment of underlying L1 abilities16
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Front matter16
Spanish heritage language learners’ motivational profile in the postsecondary classroom: Insights from psychological network modeling16
MEASUREMENT PROPERTIES OF A STANDARDIZED ELICITED IMITATION TEST: AN INTEGRATIVE DATA ANALYSIS16
Challenges in inflected word processing for L2 speakers16
On the effects of task focus and processing level on the perception–production link in second-language speech learning15
VISUAL CUES AND RATER PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBILITY, ACCENTEDNESS, AND FLUENCY15
The role of processing goals in second language predictive processing15
A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency15
Domain-general auditory processing as a conceptual and measurement framework for second language speech learning aptitude: A test-retest reliability study15
EXAMINING RATER PERCEPTION OF HOLDS AS A VISUAL CUE OF LISTENER NONUNDERSTANDING15
Automated assessment of second language comprehensibility: Review, training, validation, and generalization studies14
ARE REPLICATION STUDIES INFREQUENT BECAUSE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES?14
The importance of psychological and social factors in adult SLA: The case of productive collocation knowledge in L2 Swedish of L1 French long-term residents14
Network analysis for modeling complex systems in SLA research14
Feeling signs: Motor encoding enhances sign language learning in hearing adults13
Cognitive individual differences in the process and product of L2 writing13
How well are primary and secondary meanings of L2 words acquired?13
P-CURVING AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINSTP-HACKING IN SLA RESEARCH12
Language proficiency modulates L2 orthographic learning mechanism: Evidence from event-related brain potentials in overt naming12
Variability in native and nonnative language: An ERP study of semantic and grammar processing11
Embarrassment in English language classrooms11
THOUGHTS ON WORD FAMILIES11
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations10
Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement? – CORRIGENDUM10
Different variables hold varying significance from childhood to adolescence10
EFFECT SIZE-DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES – CORRIGENDUM10
Comparing the longitudinal development of phraseological complexity across oral and written tasks10
INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS PLUS10
DO LEARNERS CONNECT SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION WITH REGIONAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS?9
COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING9
GROWTH, FIXED, AND MIXED MINDSETS9
THE PERCEPTION OF ARABIC VOWEL DURATION BY L1 HEBREW SPEAKERS9
Foreign language learning boredom: Refining its measurement and determining its role in language learning9
The role of multiword sequences in fluent speech9
SLA volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Back matter8
WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND L2 READING8
Construction and validation of a questionnaire to study engagement in informal second language learning8
SLA volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Front matter8
2023 Valdman Award Acceptance Note8
Language proficiency modulates listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth: A conceptual replication of Birulés et al. (2020)8
SLA volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter7
Mind the gap: Psycholinguistic and individual factors affecting expressive and receptive vocabulary skills in English-Gaelic bilingual children7
An fMRI validation study of the word-monitoring task as a measure of implicit knowledge: Exploring the role of explicit and implicit aptitudes in behavioral and neural processing6
DO L1-L2 DIFFERENCES IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING REFLECT PROCESSING DEMANDS OR DIFFICULTY OF FORM-FUNCTION MAPPING?6
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children6
Coherence and comprehensibility in second language speakers’ academic speaking performance6
Language immersion effects in the use of and usted by L1-French and L1-European Portuguese learners of Spanish6
LONGITUDINAL L2 DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROSODIC MARKING OF PRAGMATIC MEANING6
A longitudinal study into learners’ productive collocation knowledge in L2 German and factors affecting the learning6
Effects of distributed practice on the acquisition of verb-noun collocations6
Age effects in spoken second language vocabulary attainment beyond the critical period6
SLA volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter6
Optimizing distributed practice online5
How to present L2 Chinese words effectively for learning: Exploring learning outcomes and learner perceptions5
Why are some articles highly cited in applied linguistics? A bibliometric study5
MAPPING RESEARCH ON L2 PRONUNCIATION5
The effects of interleaved and blocked corpus-based practice on L2 pragmatic development5
THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE TIMING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK5
Effects of retrieval schedules on the acquisition of explicit, automatized-explicit, and implicit knowledge of L2 collocations – CORRIGENDUM5
The elusive impact of L2 immersion on translation priming5
EXAMINING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE5
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction4
Learning without awareness revisited and reconsidered4
Second language productive knowledge of collocations: Does knowledge of individual words matter?4
Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail4
Co-text, context, and listening proficiency as crucial variables in intelligibility among nonnative users of English – ERRATUM4
THE EFFECTS OF IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON L2 DEVELOPMENT – ERRATUM4
Clarifying the role of inhibitory control in L2 phonological processing: A preregistered, close replication of Darcy et al. (2016) – ERRATUM4
Definite and indefinite article accuracy in learner English: A multifactorial analysis4
Text recall and use of advance organisers in first and second language4
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING REVISITED4
Task-generated processes in second language speech production: Exploring the neural correlates of task complexity during silent pauses4
SLA volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Is L2 pronunciation affected by increased task complexity in pronunciation-unfocused speaking tasks?4
DOING L2 SPEECH RESEARCH ONLINE: WHY AND HOW TO COLLECT ONLINE RATINGS DATA4
EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH4
Individual differences in self-regulated learning profiles of Chinese EFL readers: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study4
ELICITED IMITATION AS A MEASURE OF L2 PROFICIENCY: NEW INSIGHTS FROM A COMPARISON OF TWO L2 ENGLISH PARALLEL FORMS – ADDENDUM4
The impact of collocational proficiency features on expert ratings of L2 English learners’ writing3
SLA volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
SLA volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency3
A Bayesian approach to (re)examining learning effects of cognitive linguistics–inspired instruction – CORRIGENDUM3
EDITOR’S MESSAGE3
Affect as a component of second language speech perception3
Assessing accent anxiety: A measure of foreign English speakers’ concerns about their accents3
SLA volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back matter3
FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL L2 LEARNING3
First language effects on incidental vocabulary learning through bimodal input3
Replication studies in second language acquisition research: Definitions, issues, resources, and future directions3
SLA volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Disentangling the causal role of motivation, enjoyment, and anxiety in second language speech learning: A final report3
Cross-language interactions of phonetic and phonological processes3
MASSED TASK REPETITION IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT3
Measuring the development of lexical richness of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal learner corpus study3
SLA volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
SLA volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
The complexity epistemology and ontology in second language acquisition: A critical review3
ON COMPLEXITY AND DIVERGENCE IN HERITAGE LANGUAGE GRAMMARS3
EFFECTS OF LEARNING DIRECTION IN RETRIEVAL PRACTICE ON EFL VOCABULARY LEARNING2
Inhibitory and facilitative effects of lexical neighbors in spoken word recognition: The role of language experience2
SELLING THE (WORD) FAMILY SILVER?2
Introduction to the special issue on working memory and L2 writing: Implications for SLA individual differences research2
EXPLORING CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN GENDER MARKING IN SPANISH2
SELECTING LEXICAL UNITS IN WORDLISTS FOR EFL LEARNERS2
Exploring working memory and language dominance in heritage bilinguals’ writing processes2
SLA volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
Unpacking L2 explicit linguistic knowledge and online processing of the English modals may and can: A comparison of acceptability judgments and self-paced reading2
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE LIMITATIONS OF SIZE AND LEVELS TESTS OF WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE2
LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN’S HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNING2
Scrutinizing LLAMA D as a measure of implicit learning aptitude2
THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE USE OF LEXICAL UNITS2
Motivational dispositions predict qualitative differences in oral task performance2
EMOTION-LADEN TEXTS AND WORDS2
INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS PLUS: CREATING AN IMPROVED PREDICTIVE MODEL OF INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY LEARNING – ERRATUM2
EFFECT SIZE–DRIVEN SAMPLE-SIZE PLANNING, RANDOMIZATION, AND MULTISITE USE IN L2 INSTRUCTED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES2
A meta-analysis of the reliability of second language reading comprehension assessment tools2
L2 LEARNERS’ ADAPTATION TO AN L2 STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM L12
The effects of proficiency level and dual-task condition on L2 self-monitoring behavior2
Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills2
L2 GRIT2
WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING2
VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION IN BILINGUALS1
Manufactured crisis1
Processing to learn noncanonical word orders: Exploring linguistic and cognitive predictors of reanalysis in early L2 sentence comprehension1
L2 PROCESSING OF LINGUISTIC AND NONLINGUISTIC INFORMATION1
Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus1
BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS, MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATIONS, EFFORT, AND VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE1
Examining the effectiveness of bilingual subtitles for comprehension: An eye-tracking study1
Usage events and constructional knowledge: A study of two variants of the introductory-it construction1
Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach1
Acceptance and engagement patterns of mobile-assisted language learning among non-conventional adult L2 learners: A survival analysis1
The additive use of prosody and morphosyntax in L2 German1
DOUBLE-NUMBER MARKING MATTERS FOR BOTH L1 AND L2 PROCESSING OF NONLOCAL AGREEMENT SIMILARLY1
SLA volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Do they like me?1
SLA volume 45 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Validation crisitunity1
The relationship between boredom and second language achievement: A multilevel meta-analysis1
Contextual learning and retention of phrasal verbs1
Mapping the predictive role of MLAT subtests for L2 achievement through regression commonality analysis1
Exploring the potential of content-embedded working memory capacity tasks for advancing second language acquisition research1
Task design, L1 literacy, and second language oracy1
Variability and individual differences in L2 sociolinguistic evaluations: The GROUP, the INDIVIDUAL and the HOMOGENEOUS ENSEMBLE1
The light side of darkness?1
Effects of speaking task and proficiency on the midclause pausing characteristics of L1 and L2 speech from the same speakers1
Second language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts1
SLA volume 46 issue 5 Cover and Front matter1
Wh-Dependency Processing in a Naturalistic Exposure Context: Sensitivity to Abstract Syntactic Structure in High-Working-Memory L2 Speakers1
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF IMPLICIT-STATISTICAL LEARNING APTITUDE TO IMPLICIT SECOND-LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE1
Longitudinal development of second language utterance fluency, cognitive fluency, and their relationship1
When and how to use confirmatory composite analysis (CCA) in second language research1
A role for verb regularity in the L2 processing of the Spanish subjunctive mood: Evidence from eye-tracking1
L2 learning outcomes of a research-based digital app for Japanese children – ADDENDUM1
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