System

Papers
(The median citation count of System is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching211
TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era140
Book review139
Editorial Board86
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation84
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs83
When to conduct a vocabulary quiz, before the review or after the review?77
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL68
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers65
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners65
Book review64
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts63
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale63
Book review63
Subtitles for vocabulary learning: Assessing the effects of L2, L1, and bilingual subtitles over time63
Book review63
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus62
The effect of pre-reading morphological intervention on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words59
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences58
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology56
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora54
English-as-a-foreign language university instructors' perceptions of integrating artificial intelligence: A Turkish perspective54
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study54
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis52
Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?50
Conquering the tower of Babel? How linguistic distance affects second and foreign language reading in German, English, and French in year 9 in Germany50
Bridging classroom and real-life learning mediated by a mobile app with a self-regulation scheme: Impacts on Chinese EFL primary students’ self-regulated vocabulary learning outcomes, enjoyment, and l47
Corrigendum to “Mitigating ethnic minority students' foreign language anxiety through co-learning in Chinese as an additional language classrooms: A transpositioning perspective” [System 127 (2024) 1047
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach47
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students45
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production45
Analysing preservice teachers' enactment of the UDL framework to support diverse students in a remote teaching context45
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education45
Editorial Board44
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership43
Book review43
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary42
Book review41
How age and L2 proficiency affectthe L2 lexicon41
Mapping the research on language teacher emotion: A systematic literature review40
Book review40
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology40
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis40
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry40
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout38
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts38
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education38
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration37
The impact of different conversational generative AI chatbots on EFL learners: An analysis of willingness to communicate, foreign language speaking anxiety, and self-perceived communicative competence37
Growth of lexical and syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency in spoken production of first language and second language children36
Development of morphological diversity in second language Korean: An NLP analysis using the Korean Morphological Richness Analyzer 1.036
When CLIL is for all: Improving learner motivation through peer-tutoring in Mathematics35
Research on language learning motivation in school settings in System34
Corrigendum to “What linguistic features distinguish and predict L2 writing quality? A study of examination scripts written by adolescent Chinese learners of English in Hong Kong” [System 97 (2021), 134
ChatGPT affordance for logic learning strategies and its usefulness for developing knowledge and quality of logic in English argumentative writing34
Understanding student engagement with teacher and peer feedback in L2 writing34
Community of Inquiry perceptions and divergences between students and instructors34
Editorial Board33
Editorial Board33
Teaching and learning interpersonal meanings in EFL in the school years32
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness32
Book review32
Vocabulary learning in EMI courses: A longitudinal study of Chinese university students over a term32
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China32
Exploring the influence of teachers’ motivation, self-efficacy, and institutional support on their research engagement: A study of Chinese university EFL teachers31
Exploring EFL learners' cognitive/emotional dissonance in content-based foreign language instruction: An ecological perspective31
Development of L2 disciplinary literacy: A multidimensional analysis31
Exploring L2 writing teachers’ feeling rules, emotional labor and regulation strategies30
“Navigating Precarity”: Motivation of English language teachers in a Chinese higher vocational college30
The effects of phonics instruction on L2 phonological decoding and vocabulary learning: An experimental study of Chinese EFL learners30
Innovations in teaching L2 writing: How changes in teachers' SCK and PCK impact learners’ perceptions and writing outcomes29
The glocalisation of English-medium instruction examined through of the ROAD-MAPPING framework: A case study of teachers and students in a Vietnamese university29
A systematic review of reading self-efficacy in second or foreign language learning29
Understanding EFL students’ use of self-made AI chatbots as personalized writing assistance tools: A mixed methods study28
Out-of-class English learning anxiety and its relation to motivation among Chinese university English majors28
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing27
ChatGPT as a tool for self-learning English among EFL learners: A multi-methods study27
Book review26
Beyond ideologies of nativeness in the intelligibility principle for L2 English pronunciation: A corpus-supported review26
Communicative pronunciation teaching: Insights from the Vietnamese tertiary EFL classroom25
Examining the association between teacher support and commitment as well as willingness to communicate in Chinese college students: The sequential mediation role of growth language mindset and enjoyme25
Yet another look at strategies for learning grammar: Validating the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Iranian EFL context25
The role of positive learning emotions in sustaining cognitive motivation for multilingual development25
The dimensionality of L2 teacher self-regulation strategies and its interactions with teacher self-efficacy: Exploratory structural equation modeling24
The dynamics of second-language learning experience and motivational variability: Focusing on a reflective autobiography24
Book review24
Buoyancy and engagement in online English learning: The mediating roles and complex interactions of anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom24
“We were told that the content we delivered was not as important:” disconnect and disparities in world language student teaching during COVID-1924
The impact of early foreign language learning on language proficiency development from middle to high school24
Book review24
Synchronous online teaching, a blessing or a curse? Insights from EFL primary students’ interaction during online English lessons23
Book review23
A comparative study of thematic choices and thematic progression patterns in human-written and AI-generated texts22
Postgraduate Chinese EFL learners’ emotional vulnerability displays and regulation strategies22
Gender, metacognitive intervention, and dialogic interaction: EFL multimedia listening22
A latent profile analysis of EFL learners’ self-efficacy: Associations with academic emotions and language proficiency22
FL listening motivation, interest, linguistic self-confidence, and overall proficiency: A complete double mediation model22
Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape21
In pursuit of pink elephants: Sociocultural Theory and the determination of learning in assessments that support L2 teaching and learning21
Enjoyable, anxious, or bored? Investigating Chinese EFL learners’ classroom emotions and their engagement in technology-based EMI classrooms21
Technology-enhanced self-regulated second language learning interventions: A systematic review21
Book review21
Editorial Board21
Measuring Chinese junior high school students' language mindsets: What can we learn from young EFL learners’ beliefs in their language ability?21
Book review21
Evaluating AI's impact on self-regulated language learning: A systematic review21
The impact of concordancing on English learners’ foreign language anxiety and enjoyment: An application of data-driven learning20
Promoting L2 reading fluency at the tertiary level through timed and repeated reading20
Metacognitive strategies and self-efficacy co-shape L2 achievement: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach20
Book review20
Book review19
NLP-based analysis of verb semantic cohesion in L2 writing: Interaction of genre and proficiency on verb networks19
Enhancing Chinese university students' writing performance and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategy use through a strategy-based intervention19
Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners’ acquisition of Italian consonant length contrast19
Book review19
Proficiency pairing and engagement with language in L2 peer interaction19
Learning to construct authorial voice through citations: A longitudinal case study of L2 postgraduate novice writers19
Exploring the effect of corpus-informed and conventional homework materials on fostering EFL students’ grammatical construction learning19
Book review19
ChatGPT: The catalyst for teacher-student rapport and grit development in L2 class19
Implicit statistical learning and working memory predict EFL development and written task outcomes in adolescents18
Language teacher associations as a nexus of research and practice: A collaborative autoethnography18
Development and initial validation of learner engagement with teacher written corrective feedback scale18
Unraveling the relationships among EFL teacher emotions, immunity, and teaching quality: A multilevel structural-equation modelling analysis18
The effect of self-perceived learning needs on self-regulated learning and learning outcomes in an EFL listening course18
Topicalization as a practice for facilitating L2 discussion in video-mediated extensive reading book club meetings18
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution18
Developing multimodal communicative competence: Insights from “semantic gravity” and the Knowledge Process framework18
The effects of chunk reading strategy training on the word chunking skills of L1-Japanese English learners18
Book review18
The relationship between L2 grit and vocabulary knowledge in first-year Moroccan university students17
The mediating effects of online learning engagement on the relationship between Chinese university students’ L2 grit and their English language achievement17
Book review17
Mobilizing ‘context’: Vocabulary checks in ESL tutoring sessions17
CACTI: Use of a survey instrument as a semistructured interview protocol to facilitate teacher retrospection on bi/multilingual practices in EMI17
Covid-19 as a critical incident: Reflection on language assessment literacy and the need for radical changes17
A comparative study of the effects of L1 and L2 prewriting discussions on L2 writing performance17
Bidirectional relationship between L2 pragmatic development and learner identity in a study abroad context17
Examining Chinese EFL learners’ online self-regulated learning: A mixed-methods approach16
A configurational exploration of how emotions influence willingness to communicate among Chinese EFL learners: A fsQCA approach16
Rising China and rising Chinese: An investigation into African international students’ language beliefs16
Book review16
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners16
Exploring the intricate relationship between foreign language anxiety, attention and self-repairs during L2 speech production16
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement16
Book review16
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]16
Internationally mobile students’ language views in an Inner Circle English writing course16
Modelling the interrelationships among self-regulated learning components, critical thinking and reading comprehension by PLS-SEM: A mixed methods study16
Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers’ synchronous small group online tutorials16
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language16
Book review15
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities15
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses15
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features15
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words15
Book review15
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college15
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users15
Book review15
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors15
Corrigendum to “Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective” [System 113 (2023) 102959]15
Book review15
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review14
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model14
Peer interaction, writing proficiency, and the quality of collaborative digital multimodal composing task: Comparing guided and unguided planning14
Guest editorial: L2 pragmatics in language teacher education14
Foregrounding language teacher agency and positioning of EFL teachers in the research-practice nexus14
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom14
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning14
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity14
Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis14
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use14
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model14
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality14
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks14
Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-1914
The effect of spacing on incidental and deliberate learning of L2 collocations14
Looking into English-medium instruction teachers’ metadiscourse: An ELF perspective13
Situating emotionality within socialization in study abroad contexts: The Student's perspective13
Editorial Board13
Effects of Global Englishes-oriented pedagogy in the EFL classroom13
Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme13
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses13
Evaluating the roles of breadth and depth of aural vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension of EFL learners: An investigation applying auditory measures13
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts13
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context13
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation13
Book review13
Photo-narrative frames: Using visuals with narrative research in applied linguistics13
The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools13
Multimedia enhanced vocabulary learning: The role of input condition and learner-related factors13
Reducing anxiety in the foreign language classroom: A positive psychology approach13
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing13
Book review13
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user13
Language teachers as pedagogical designers in technology-mediated language education13
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews13
The emergence of boredom in an online language class: An ecological perspective13
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators12
Conversation Cloud: A videoconferencing learning ecology for Thai undergraduate EFL learners12
Book review12
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?12
Models of EMI pedagogies: At the interface of language use and interaction12
Investigating the mediating role of positive and negative beliefs about competition and competitive orientation in the relationship between language mindsets and emotions12
Book review12
Book review12
Raising the (meta)pragmatic awareness of non-native pre-service teachers of L2 Italian with a telecollaborative data-driven learning project on formal email writing12
Book review12
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach12
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the L2 teacher boredom scale12
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners12
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections12
EFL university students’ game element preferences and learning needs: Implications for the instructional design of digital gamified classes11
Editorial Board11
Reading aloud listening test items to young learners: Attention, item understanding, and test performance11
A study on the affordances of digital fairy-tale rewriting: A critical literacy approach to digital multimodal composing11
Editorial Board11
Investigating the capability of ChatGPT for generating multiple-choice reading comprehension items11
‘Finally, it's all in vain’: A Chinese as an additional language teacher's agency in navigating the teaching-research nexus in a neoliberal Chinese university11
Rapport in research interviews: An interdiscursive perspective11
Book review11
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with professor Jean-Marc Dewaele11
Book review11
Exploring students’ demotivation and remotivation in learning English11
The effect of “at home” network communication, off-site travel, and extracurricular activity on longitudinal social network development in study abroad11
Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions11
Exploring the linguistic signature of interpersonal liking in second language interaction11
Book review11
The mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between foreign language anxiety and learning burnout among college students with different language environments11
An overview of TBLT approaches and cognitive processes with heritage language learners11
Small stories as curated formats on social media: The intersection of affordances, values & practices11
The use of online dictionaries in video-mediated L2 interactions for the social accomplishment of Virtual Exchange tasks11
Facilitating EFL learners' intercultural competence through culturally responsive teaching in oral English classrooms11
Unlocking the magic of digital adaptivity: Unleashing students' writing skills and self-determination motivation through digital literacy instruction10
Enhancing EMI learning through L1 use and ESP: A mixed-methods study in a Chinese transnational education context10
The effects of the timing of form-focused instruction on EFL learners’ learning of difficult and easy grammatical features: A comparative study10
Exploring the affordances of multimodal competence, multichannel awareness and plurilingual lecturing in EMI10
Book review10
Someday I want to go to the Guggenheim! A case study about adolescent learners’ foreign language enjoyment in a desktop virtual reality project10
Book review10
An exploratory study on the potential of machine reading comprehension as an instructional scaffolding device in second language reading lessons10
Modeling writing self-efficacy over time and across tasks in an EFL context10
A mixed-methods cross-cultural study of teacher care and teacher-student rapport in Iranian and Polish University students’ engagement in pursuing academic goals in an L2 context10
The predictive value of gaze behavior and mouse-clicking in testing listening proficiency: A sensor technology study10
Assessment of Interactional Competence in L2 German: Integrating an innovative rubric to help language teachers effectively evaluate pragmatics10
Corrigendum to “Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers' synchronous small group online tutorials” [System 121 (2024) 103185]10
Conceptualising the actual L2 self into the L2 motivational self system10
A systematic review of Informal Digital Learning of English: An ecological systems theory perspective10
Modeling speaking performance in young learners of Chinese as a heritage language: The interplay of L2 grit, motivational intensity, and willingness to communicate10
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