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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching203
TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era130
Book review108
Editorial Board95
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts94
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL82
Book review80
When to conduct a vocabulary quiz, before the review or after the review?79
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora76
Book review71
Book review71
Book review68
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers62
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners61
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation61
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale60
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences58
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study57
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology56
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus55
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs54
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production54
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts53
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis53
Editorial Board52
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary52
Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?52
Book review51
Editorial Board51
How age and L2 proficiency affectthe L2 lexicon50
Mapping the research on language teacher emotion: A systematic literature review48
Book review48
Book review47
Book review47
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis47
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry46
Analysing preservice teachers' enactment of the UDL framework to support diverse students in a remote teaching context45
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education43
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education43
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students42
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout41
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach41
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 competence40
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology40
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership40
Understanding student engagement with teacher and peer feedback in L2 writing39
The glocalisation of English-medium instruction examined through of the ROAD-MAPPING framework: A case study of teachers and students in a Vietnamese university39
Development of morphological diversity in second language Korean: An NLP analysis using the Korean Morphological Richness Analyzer 1.038
A systematic review of reading self-efficacy in second or foreign language learning37
Out-of-class English learning anxiety and its relation to motivation among Chinese university English majors37
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), 137
Editorial Board35
Editorial Board35
Research on language learning motivation in school settings in System35
Vocabulary learning in EMI courses: A longitudinal study of Chinese university students over a term34
Teaching and learning interpersonal meanings in EFL in the school years34
Book review34
“Navigating Precarity”: Motivation of English language teachers in a Chinese higher vocational college33
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness32
Exploring EFL learners' cognitive/emotional dissonance in content-based foreign language instruction: An ecological perspective32
Community of Inquiry perceptions and divergences between students and instructors32
Innovations in teaching L2 writing: How changes in teachers' SCK and PCK impact learners’ perceptions and writing outcomes32
Exploring the influence of teachers’ motivation, self-efficacy, and institutional support on their research engagement: A study of Chinese university EFL teachers32
Exploring L2 writing teachers’ feeling rules, emotional labor and regulation strategies31
Development of L2 disciplinary literacy: A multidimensional analysis31
When CLIL is for all: Improving learner motivation through peer-tutoring in Mathematics31
ChatGPT affordance for logic learning strategies and its usefulness for developing knowledge and quality of logic in English argumentative writing31
ChatGPT as a tool for self-learning English among EFL learners: A multi-methods study31
The effects of phonics instruction on L2 phonological decoding and vocabulary learning: An experimental study of Chinese EFL learners31
Understanding EFL students’ use of self-made AI chatbots as personalized writing assistance tools: A mixed methods study31
Beyond ideologies of nativeness in the intelligibility principle for L2 English pronunciation: A corpus-supported review30
Book review30
Yet another look at strategies for learning grammar: Validating the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Iranian EFL context30
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing30
Buoyancy and engagement in online English learning: The mediating roles and complex interactions of anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom29
“We were told that the content we delivered was not as important:” disconnect and disparities in world language student teaching during COVID-1929
Book review29
Multimodality in the classroom presentation genre: Findings from a study of Turkish psychology undergraduate talks29
Book review29
Exploring the longitudinal impact of university immersion: Bilingual spaces, multilingual values28
Book review28
Gender, metacognitive intervention, and dialogic interaction: EFL multimedia listening28
The dimensionality of L2 teacher self-regulation strategies and its interactions with teacher self-efficacy: Exploratory structural equation modeling27
Synchronous online teaching, a blessing or a curse? Insights from EFL primary students’ interaction during online English lessons26
Book review26
The role of positive learning emotions in sustaining cognitive motivation for multilingual development25
A comparative study of thematic choices and thematic progression patterns in human-written and AI-generated texts25
Postgraduate Chinese EFL learners’ emotional vulnerability displays and regulation strategies25
A latent profile analysis of EFL learners’ self-efficacy: Associations with academic emotions and language proficiency25
FL listening motivation, interest, linguistic self-confidence, and overall proficiency: A complete double mediation model25
Communicative pronunciation teaching: Insights from the Vietnamese tertiary EFL classroom25
The impact of early foreign language learning on language proficiency development from middle to high school24
Enjoyable, anxious, or bored? Investigating Chinese EFL learners’ classroom emotions and their engagement in technology-based EMI classrooms24
Editorial Board24
Evaluating AI's impact on self-regulated language learning: A systematic review24
Book review23
Book review23
In pursuit of pink elephants: Sociocultural Theory and the determination of learning in assessments that support L2 teaching and learning23
Book review23
Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape23
Book review22
Promoting L2 reading fluency at the tertiary level through timed and repeated reading22
Book review22
Proficiency pairing and engagement with language in L2 peer interaction22
Raising students’ audience awareness for oral presentation through online role-reversal22
Book review22
Enhancing Chinese university students' writing performance and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategy use through a strategy-based intervention21
Metacognitive strategies and self-efficacy co-shape L2 achievement: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach21
ChatGPT: The catalyst for teacher-student rapport and grit development in L2 class21
The impact of concordancing on English learners’ foreign language anxiety and enjoyment: An application of data-driven learning21
Measuring Chinese junior high school students' language mindsets: What can we learn from young EFL learners’ beliefs in their language ability?21
A comparative study of the effects of L1 and L2 prewriting discussions on L2 writing performance20
Exploring the effect of corpus-informed and conventional homework materials on fostering EFL students’ grammatical construction learning20
Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners’ acquisition of Italian consonant length contrast20
Learning to construct authorial voice through citations: A longitudinal case study of L2 postgraduate novice writers20
Book review19
Unraveling the relationships among EFL teacher emotions, immunity, and teaching quality: A multilevel structural-equation modelling analysis19
The effect of self-perceived learning needs on self-regulated learning and learning outcomes in an EFL listening course19
The effects of chunk reading strategy training on the word chunking skills of L1-Japanese English learners19
Developing multimodal communicative competence: Insights from “semantic gravity” and the Knowledge Process framework19
Topicalization as a practice for facilitating L2 discussion in video-mediated extensive reading book club meetings19
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution18
"Alors, on va faire une activité": An SFL perspective on student engagement in contextualized world language instruction18
Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers’ synchronous small group online tutorials18
CACTI: Use of a survey instrument as a semistructured interview protocol to facilitate teacher retrospection on bi/multilingual practices in EMI18
Book review18
Bidirectional relationship between L2 pragmatic development and learner identity in a study abroad context18
Covid-19 as a critical incident: Reflection on language assessment literacy and the need for radical changes18
Internationally mobile students’ language views in an Inner Circle English writing course18
Book review18
Mobilizing ‘context’: Vocabulary checks in ESL tutoring sessions18
Development and initial validation of learner engagement with teacher written corrective feedback scale17
Examining Chinese EFL learners’ online self-regulated learning: A mixed-methods approach17
Modelling the interrelationships among self-regulated learning components, critical thinking and reading comprehension by PLS-SEM: A mixed methods study17
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners17
The relationship between L2 grit and vocabulary knowledge in first-year Moroccan university students17
Exploring the intricate relationship between foreign language anxiety, attention and self-repairs during L2 speech production17
Book review17
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]17
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement17
Rising China and rising Chinese: An investigation into African international students’ language beliefs17
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language17
Book review17
Book review16
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts16
The cagey C-test construct: Some evidence from a meta-analysis of correlation coefficients16
Book review16
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words16
Book review16
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model16
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users16
Book review16
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors16
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities16
Peer interaction, writing proficiency, and the quality of collaborative digital multimodal composing task: Comparing guided and unguided planning16
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom16
Book review15
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model15
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college15
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review15
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality15
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses15
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity15
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context15
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks15
The effect of spacing on incidental and deliberate learning of L2 collocations14
Reducing anxiety in the foreign language classroom: A positive psychology approach14
Book review14
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing14
Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-1914
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use14
Book review14
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features14
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning14
Situating emotionality within socialization in study abroad contexts: The Student's perspective14
Editorial Board14
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners14
Book review13
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?13
Effects of Global Englishes-oriented pedagogy in the EFL classroom13
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses13
Raising the (meta)pragmatic awareness of non-native pre-service teachers of L2 Italian with a telecollaborative data-driven learning project on formal email writing13
Book review13
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach13
Book review13
Multimedia enhanced vocabulary learning: The role of input condition and learner-related factors13
Evaluating the roles of breadth and depth of aural vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension of EFL learners: An investigation applying auditory measures13
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the L2 teacher boredom scale13
Investigating the mediating role of positive and negative beliefs about competition and competitive orientation in the relationship between language mindsets and emotions13
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews13
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user13
Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme13
Models of EMI pedagogies: At the interface of language use and interaction13
Multiword sequences in English language learners’ speech: The relationship between trigrams and lexical variety across development12
Rapport in research interviews: An interdiscursive perspective12
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators12
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections12
The emergence of boredom in an online language class: An ecological perspective12
Exploring the linguistic signature of interpersonal liking in second language interaction12
Book review12
Book review12
Conversation Cloud: A videoconferencing learning ecology for Thai undergraduate EFL learners12
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation12
Photo-narrative frames: Using visuals with narrative research in applied linguistics12
Book review12
Editorial Board12
Editorial Board12
The use of online dictionaries in video-mediated L2 interactions for the social accomplishment of Virtual Exchange tasks12
Looking into English-medium instruction teachers’ metadiscourse: An ELF perspective12
The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools12
Exploring engagement of users of Global Englishes in a community of inquiry12
Reading aloud listening test items to young learners: Attention, item understanding, and test performance12
Book review12
The effect of “at home” network communication, off-site travel, and extracurricular activity on longitudinal social network development in study abroad11
Facilitating EFL learners' intercultural competence through culturally responsive teaching in oral English classrooms11
Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions11
An exploratory study on the potential of machine reading comprehension as an instructional scaffolding device in second language reading lessons11
Book review11
Editorial Board11
The mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between foreign language anxiety and learning burnout among college students with different language environments11
Investigating the capability of ChatGPT for generating multiple-choice reading comprehension items11
Exploring students’ demotivation and remotivation in learning English11
Book review11
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 context11
Modeling writing self-efficacy over time and across tasks in an EFL context11
A study on the affordances of digital fairy-tale rewriting: A critical literacy approach to digital multimodal composing11
Small stories as curated formats on social media: The intersection of affordances, values & practices11
‘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
Exploring the affordances of multimodal competence, multichannel awareness and plurilingual lecturing in EMI11
The role of mixed emotions in language learning and teaching: A positive psychology teacher intervention11
Someday I want to go to the Guggenheim! A case study about adolescent learners’ foreign language enjoyment in a desktop virtual reality project11
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with professor Jean-Marc Dewaele11
Assessment of Interactional Competence in L2 German: Integrating an innovative rubric to help language teachers effectively evaluate pragmatics10
The effects of the timing of form-focused instruction on EFL learners’ learning of difficult and easy grammatical features: A comparative study10
The dynamics and mediating factors of students’ emotional and social engagement in a project-based writing course10
What is the effect of successive segmental repair on the mutual intelligibility of ELF users?10
Editorial Board10
Enhancing EMI learning through L1 use and ESP: A mixed-methods study in a Chinese transnational education context10
Unlocking the magic of digital adaptivity: Unleashing students' writing skills and self-determination motivation through digital literacy instruction10
The role of input modality and vocabulary knowledge in alignment in reading-to-speaking tasks10
A systematic review of Informal Digital Learning of English: An ecological systems theory perspective10
Alignment in second language speakers’ perceptions of interaction and its relationship to perceived communicative success10
Developing a short language classroom engagement scale (LCES) and linking it with needs satisfaction and achievement10
The predictive value of gaze behavior and mouse-clicking in testing listening proficiency: A sensor technology study10
Conceptualising the actual L2 self into the L2 motivational self system10
Modeling speaking performance in young learners of Chinese as a heritage language: The interplay of L2 grit, motivational intensity, and willingness to communicate10
Book review10
Low proficiency level learners' translingual and transmodal practices in teletandem: Challenging the separation of languages principle10
Motivational profiles of learners of multiple foreign languages: A self-determination theory perspective9
Enactment of English medium instruction in under-resourced educational contexts: A case of multilingual public secondary schools in Nepal9
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