System

Papers
(The TQCC of System is 10. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching216
TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era152
Book review150
Editorial Board89
Subtitles for vocabulary learning: Assessing the effects of L2, L1, and bilingual subtitles over time87
Book review84
Book review82
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL77
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners73
When to conduct a vocabulary quiz, before the review or after the review?69
The effect of pre-reading morphological intervention on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words68
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts67
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora67
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences67
English-as-a-foreign language university instructors' perceptions of integrating artificial intelligence: A Turkish perspective66
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus66
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale65
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study61
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation60
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs59
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology58
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers56
Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?55
Conquering the tower of Babel? How linguistic distance affects second and foreign language reading in German, English, and French in year 9 in Germany54
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) 1052
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 l51
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students49
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education49
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production49
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis47
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership46
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout46
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology46
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach45
Editorial Board45
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education44
Book review44
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts44
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary43
Analysing preservice teachers' enactment of the UDL framework to support diverse students in a remote teaching context43
Book review42
How age and L2 proficiency affectthe L2 lexicon42
Book review41
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry41
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
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis39
Growth of lexical and syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency in spoken production of first language and second language children38
When CLIL is for all: Improving learner motivation through peer-tutoring in Mathematics38
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration38
Mapping the research on language teacher emotion: A systematic literature review38
Development of morphological diversity in second language Korean: An NLP analysis using the Korean Morphological Richness Analyzer 1.037
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), 136
Editorial Board36
Teaching and learning interpersonal meanings in EFL in the school years35
Editorial Board35
Book review34
Vocabulary learning in EMI courses: A longitudinal study of Chinese university students over a term34
The effects of phonics instruction on L2 phonological decoding and vocabulary learning: An experimental study of Chinese EFL learners33
A systematic review of reading self-efficacy in second or foreign language learning33
Innovations in teaching L2 writing: How changes in teachers' SCK and PCK impact learners’ perceptions and writing outcomes33
Out-of-class English learning anxiety and its relation to motivation among Chinese university English majors33
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China33
Exploring EFL learners' cognitive/emotional dissonance in content-based foreign language instruction: An ecological perspective32
Development of L2 disciplinary literacy: A multidimensional analysis32
Exploring the influence of teachers’ motivation, self-efficacy, and institutional support on their research engagement: A study of Chinese university EFL teachers32
Understanding EFL students’ use of self-made AI chatbots as personalized writing assistance tools: A mixed methods study31
The glocalisation of English-medium instruction examined through of the ROAD-MAPPING framework: A case study of teachers and students in a Vietnamese university31
Exploring L2 writing teachers’ feeling rules, emotional labor and regulation strategies31
ChatGPT affordance for logic learning strategies and its usefulness for developing knowledge and quality of logic in English argumentative writing31
Research on language learning motivation in school settings in System31
“Navigating Precarity”: Motivation of English language teachers in a Chinese higher vocational college30
Understanding student engagement with teacher and peer feedback in L2 writing30
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness28
Community of Inquiry perceptions and divergences between students and instructors28
Book review27
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
Yet another look at strategies for learning grammar: Validating the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Iranian EFL context26
Book review26
The impact of early foreign language learning on language proficiency development from middle to high school26
Book review25
Book review25
A latent profile analysis of EFL learners’ self-efficacy: Associations with academic emotions and language proficiency24
The dynamics of second-language learning experience and motivational variability: Focusing on a reflective autobiography24
The dimensionality of L2 teacher self-regulation strategies and its interactions with teacher self-efficacy: Exploratory structural equation modeling24
A comparative study of thematic choices and thematic progression patterns in human-written and AI-generated texts24
Communicative pronunciation teaching: Insights from the Vietnamese tertiary EFL classroom24
Beyond ideologies of nativeness in the intelligibility principle for L2 English pronunciation: A corpus-supported review23
The role of positive learning emotions in sustaining cognitive motivation for multilingual development23
Postgraduate Chinese EFL learners’ emotional vulnerability displays and regulation strategies23
Buoyancy and engagement in online English learning: The mediating roles and complex interactions of anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom23
FL listening motivation, interest, linguistic self-confidence, and overall proficiency: A complete double mediation model23
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 enjoyme22
Enjoyable, anxious, or bored? Investigating Chinese EFL learners’ classroom emotions and their engagement in technology-based EMI classrooms22
Gender, metacognitive intervention, and dialogic interaction: EFL multimedia listening22
Evaluating AI's impact on self-regulated language learning: A systematic review22
“We were told that the content we delivered was not as important:” disconnect and disparities in world language student teaching during COVID-1922
Book review21
Book review21
Editorial Board21
Book review21
Measuring Chinese junior high school students' language mindsets: What can we learn from young EFL learners’ beliefs in their language ability?21
In pursuit of pink elephants: Sociocultural Theory and the determination of learning in assessments that support L2 teaching and learning21
Learning to construct authorial voice through citations: A longitudinal case study of L2 postgraduate novice writers21
Technology-enhanced self-regulated second language learning interventions: A systematic review21
Exploring the effect of corpus-informed and conventional homework materials on fostering EFL students’ grammatical construction learning20
NLP-based analysis of verb semantic cohesion in L2 writing: Interaction of genre and proficiency on verb networks20
Enhancing Chinese university students' writing performance and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategy use through a strategy-based intervention20
Book review20
Proficiency pairing and engagement with language in L2 peer interaction20
The impact of concordancing on English learners’ foreign language anxiety and enjoyment: An application of data-driven learning20
Book review20
Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape20
Metacognitive strategies and self-efficacy co-shape L2 achievement: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach19
Development and initial validation of learner engagement with teacher written corrective feedback scale19
Mobilizing ‘context’: Vocabulary checks in ESL tutoring sessions19
Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners’ acquisition of Italian consonant length contrast19
Promoting L2 reading fluency at the tertiary level through timed and repeated reading19
Unraveling the relationships among EFL teacher emotions, immunity, and teaching quality: A multilevel structural-equation modelling analysis19
The effects of chunk reading strategy training on the word chunking skills of L1-Japanese English learners19
ChatGPT: The catalyst for teacher-student rapport and grit development in L2 class19
The effect of self-perceived learning needs on self-regulated learning and learning outcomes in an EFL listening course19
Internationally mobile students’ language views in an Inner Circle English writing course19
Topicalization as a practice for facilitating L2 discussion in video-mediated extensive reading book club meetings18
Bidirectional relationship between L2 pragmatic development and learner identity in a study abroad context18
Book review18
Covid-19 as a critical incident: Reflection on language assessment literacy and the need for radical changes18
The mediating effects of online learning engagement on the relationship between Chinese university students’ L2 grit and their English language achievement18
CACTI: Use of a survey instrument as a semistructured interview protocol to facilitate teacher retrospection on bi/multilingual practices in EMI18
Book review18
Language teacher associations as a nexus of research and practice: A collaborative autoethnography18
Implicit statistical learning and working memory predict EFL development and written task outcomes in adolescents18
The relationship between L2 grit and vocabulary knowledge in first-year Moroccan university students18
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution18
A comparative study of the effects of L1 and L2 prewriting discussions on L2 writing performance18
Modelling the interrelationships among self-regulated learning components, critical thinking and reading comprehension by PLS-SEM: A mixed methods study17
Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers’ synchronous small group online tutorials17
Rising China and rising Chinese: An investigation into African international students’ language beliefs17
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement17
A configurational exploration of how emotions influence willingness to communicate among Chinese EFL learners: A fsQCA approach17
Examining Chinese EFL learners’ online self-regulated learning: A mixed-methods approach17
Exploring the intricate relationship between foreign language anxiety, attention and self-repairs during L2 speech production17
Book review17
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners16
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features16
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks16
Book review16
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review16
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]16
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language16
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model16
Book review16
Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis15
Foregrounding language teacher agency and positioning of EFL teachers in the research-practice nexus15
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college15
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words15
Corrigendum to “Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective” [System 113 (2023) 102959]15
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses15
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model15
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom15
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors15
Book review15
Book review15
Guest editorial: L2 pragmatics in language teacher education15
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality15
Book review15
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities15
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users15
Situating emotionality within socialization in study abroad contexts: The Student's perspective14
Reducing anxiety in the foreign language classroom: A positive psychology approach14
Peer interaction, writing proficiency, and the quality of collaborative digital multimodal composing task: Comparing guided and unguided planning14
Editorial Board14
Book review14
Book review14
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use14
The effect of spacing on incidental and deliberate learning of L2 collocations14
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning14
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing14
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?14
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context14
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts14
Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-1914
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity14
Book review14
Book review14
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
Book review13
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation13
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
Looking into English-medium instruction teachers’ metadiscourse: An ELF perspective13
Models of EMI pedagogies: At the interface of language use and interaction13
Investigating the mediating role of positive and negative beliefs about competition and competitive orientation in the relationship between language mindsets and emotions13
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user13
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections13
Photo-narrative frames: Using visuals with narrative research in applied linguistics13
Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme13
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 factors12
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners12
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews12
Rapport in research interviews: An interdiscursive perspective12
The emergence of boredom in an online language class: An ecological perspective12
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses12
Language teachers as pedagogical designers in technology-mediated language education12
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators12
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach12
Effects of Global Englishes-oriented pedagogy in the EFL classroom12
Book review12
Conversation Cloud: A videoconferencing learning ecology for Thai undergraduate EFL learners12
Metacognitive instruction in technology-mediated TBLT: An Exploratory Case Study of Learners’ Engagement11
Editorial Board11
A study on the affordances of digital fairy-tale rewriting: A critical literacy approach to digital multimodal composing11
Exploring the linguistic signature of interpersonal liking in second language interaction11
Investigating the capability of ChatGPT for generating multiple-choice reading comprehension items11
Reading aloud listening test items to young learners: Attention, item understanding, and test performance11
The use of online dictionaries in video-mediated L2 interactions for the social accomplishment of Virtual Exchange tasks11
Small stories as curated formats on social media: The intersection of affordances, values & practices11
Book review11
Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions11
EFL university students’ game element preferences and learning needs: Implications for the instructional design of digital gamified classes11
Book review11
Book review11
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with professor Jean-Marc Dewaele11
Facilitating EFL learners' intercultural competence through culturally responsive teaching in oral English classrooms11
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
An overview of TBLT approaches and cognitive processes with heritage language learners11
Editorial Board11
‘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
The mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between foreign language anxiety and learning burnout among college students with different language environments11
An exploratory study on the potential of machine reading comprehension as an instructional scaffolding device in second language reading lessons10
Book review10
Unlocking the magic of digital adaptivity: Unleashing students' writing skills and self-determination motivation through digital literacy instruction10
A systematic review of Informal Digital Learning of English: An ecological systems theory perspective10
Conceptualising the actual L2 self into the L2 motivational self system10
Someday I want to go to the Guggenheim! A case study about adolescent learners’ foreign language enjoyment in a desktop virtual reality project10
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
The role of input modality and vocabulary knowledge in alignment in reading-to-speaking tasks10
Exploring Chinese university students’ motivation and engagement in English medium instruction: A latent profiling approach10
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
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
Book review10
A latent profile analysis of Informal Digital Learning of English: Emotion regulation strategies as predictors and willingness to communicate as outcomes10
Assessment of Interactional Competence in L2 German: Integrating an innovative rubric to help language teachers effectively evaluate pragmatics10
Modeling speaking performance in young learners of Chinese as a heritage language: The interplay of L2 grit, motivational intensity, and willingness to communicate10
Enhancing EMI learning through L1 use and ESP: A mixed-methods study in a Chinese transnational education context10
Modeling writing self-efficacy over time and across tasks in an EFL context10
Strategies of teaching knowledge in English-medium instruction lectures: A Legitimation Code Theory perspective10
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