System

Papers
(The TQCC of System is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Book review303
“I thought we weren't in Spain!”: Discursive negotiations of realness in a foreign language classroom199
Students' progressive behavioral learning patterns in using machine translation systems – A structural equation modeling analysis189
Mapping connections among activism interactional practices and presence in videoconferencing language learning124
Motivational intensity and willingness to communicate in L2 learning: A moderated mediation model of enjoyment, boredom, and shyness90
Translanguaging/trans-semiotizing in teacher-learner interactions on social media: Making learner agency visible and achievable87
Transforming student contributions into subject-specific expression81
EFL students’ writing achievement via the execution of scaffolding strategies instruction77
Evaluating multimodal literacy: Academic and professional interactions around student-produced instructional video tutorials77
Editorial Board74
Book review73
To predict L2 writing quality using lexical richness indices: An investigation of learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language68
Increasing use of multi-word expressions in conversation through a fluency workshop64
Cross-platform language learning: A spatial perspective on narratives of language learning across digital platforms64
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model60
Exploring EFL learners’ perceived promise and limitations of using an artificial intelligence speech evaluation system for speaking practice56
Towards epistemological pluralism and methodological openness in language teacher emotion research55
Editorial Board50
Investigating barriers to implementation of a CLT-based curriculum innovation in iranian secondary education50
The enactment of positive emotions via teacher scaffolding: The case of Chinese high school EFL learners’ engagement with teacher written feedback50
Tibetan CSL learners’ L2 Motivational Self System and L2 achievement49
Intensity matters in CLIL: Evidence from primary school learners’ receptive skills49
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity49
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study48
Situating emotionality within socialization in study abroad contexts: The Student's perspective48
A case study of the effects of hybrid extensive reading on JFL learners’ reading rates and comprehension48
Learning to listen strategically: Developing a listening comprehension strategies questionnaire for learning English as a global language47
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use47
The relationship between neuroticism and L2 anxiety: A meta-analysis46
The relationship between teacher mindfulness and creative teaching of college English foreign language teachers: A multiple mediating model46
The influence of the spacing effect on L2 vocabulary learning: A study on Chinese university students45
Book review43
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review43
Book review43
Epilogue: Advances in L2 alignment and where we go from here41
Book review40
Editorial Board40
System's 50th anniversary special issue: In conversation with Sarah Mercer39
Unpacking Chinese lower-proficiency EFL learners’ conceptual development of English subjunctives with group dynamic assessment: Efficacy, sustainability and reciprocity39
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks38
Editorial Board38
Towards a classification of text features highly indicative of context-appropriate L2 writing competence38
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college38
Book review37
Editorial Board36
Book review36
Book review36
TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era36
Effects of n-grams on the rated L2 writing quality of expository essays: A conceptual replication and extension35
Book review35
Book review33
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users32
A contribution of fanfiction writing to improving voice and fluency of learners of Japanese from an agentic perspective32
Book review32
Book review32
Engaging with difference: Integrating the linguistic landscape in virtual exchange31
Editorial Board31
Editorial Board30
Book review30
Book review30
Book review30
Book review30
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom29
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model29
A longitudinal test of the impact of CLIL on language emotions and learning motivation29
Effects of a professional development program on teachers’ oral corrective feedback practices29
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale29
Factors impeding implementing CALL-based instruction: A mixed-methods study29
Implementing dynamic assessment in writing in Chinese as a second language: Towards an adjusted cumulative group dynamic assessment28
On the relationship between EFL students' attitudes toward artificial intelligence, teachers' immediacy and teacher-student rapport, and their willingness to communicate28
Understanding EFL reading anxiety in relation to learning motivation, attitudes and strategies for Chinese and Spanish undergraduates28
L2 grit: A structured approach to preliminary biblio-systematic review28
Corrigendum to “Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective” [System 113 (2023) 102959]28
Adaptation and validation of the vocabulary learning motivation questionnaire for Chinese learners: A construct validation approach27
Book review27
Approaches to studying abroad in Brazil and their effects on language learning and intercultural contact27
Proficiency and pragmatic production in L2 Chinese study abroad27
‘Makes head hurt’: School-aged learners' perceptions in the language classroom27
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses27
Book review27
Book review27
Influences of process-based instruction on students’ use of self-regulated learning strategies in EFL writing26
When to conduct a vocabulary quiz, before the review or after the review?26
Less precise auditory processing limits instructed L2 speech learning: Communicative focus on phonetic form revisited26
The effect of spacing on incidental and deliberate learning of L2 collocations25
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences25
SFL pedagogies in language education: Special issue introduction25
Examining the role of achievement goals in L2 learning: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study24
Book review24
Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach24
The predictive effect of trait emotional intelligence on emotion regulation strategies: The mediating role of negative emotion intensity24
Are students prepared and supported for English medium instruction in Chinese higher education to promote educational equality?24
Exploring the relationship between behavior matching and interlocutor perceptions in L2 interaction23
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality23
Feeling and acting in classroom teaching: The relationships between teachers’ emotional labor, commitment, and well-being23
What two decades of research into L2 listening in System tells us: Looking back for looking forward22
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts22
Book review22
The relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and multilingualism revisited22
The emergence of gratitude in L2 group discussion: A small-lens study21
An eye-tracking and neuroimaging study of negative wording effects on cognitive load in a metacognitive awareness tool21
Engagement patterns in research article introductions: A cross-disciplinary study21
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context21
Book review20
Beyond age and intensive exposure: Initial proficiency effects on adolescents’ second language proficiency in an international school20
Foreign language enjoyment and willingness to communicate: The mediating roles of communication confidence and motivation20
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words19
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities19
The predictive effects of motivation, enjoyment, and self-efficacy on informal digital learning of LOTE: Evidence from French and German learners in China19
‘Tu connais le answer?’: Multilingual children's attempts to navigate monolingual English Medium classrooms in Cameroon18
The presence of translanguaging and its effect on EFL learners’ languaging opportunities in video-based peer editing18
Examining whether learning outcomes are enhanced when L2 learners’ cognitive styles match listening instruction methods18
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors18
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features18
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL18
The impact of captioning and playback speed on listening comprehension of multilingual English learners at varying proficiency levels18
From shy to fly: Facilitating EFL learners’ willingness to communicate with an AI chatbot and an intelligent tutoring system17
The cagey C-test construct: Some evidence from a meta-analysis of correlation coefficients17
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology17
Exploring language learners’ self-generated goals: Does self-concordance affect engagement and resilience?17
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language17
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora17
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners17
What linguistic features distinguish and predict L2 writing quality? A study of examination scripts written by adolescent Chinese learners of English in Hong Kong16
Exploring collaborative digital multimodal composition: Interaction patterns and texts in the French as a Foreign Language context16
Chinese EFL learners’ use of mobile dictionaries in reading comprehension tasks16
Incidental learning of semantically transparent and opaque Chinese compounds from reading: An eye-tracking approach16
Exploring language teacher education through researcher-practitioner co-construction of differentiated instruction16
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs16
The effects of three motivational interventions on EFL learners’ L2MSS: A longitudinal perspective16
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus16
The transformative role of Positive Psychology in fostering inclusive language education for SEN students16
The role of classroom silence in teacher educators’ well-being: A case study in TESOL initial teacher education16
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]16
Native-speakerism and trans-speakerism in ELT: Interpretations, manifestations, and ramifications16
Investigating the capabilities of large language model-based task-oriented dialogue chatbots from a learner’s perspective16
Using digital storytelling to promote language learning, digital skills and digital collaboration among English pre-service teachers15
Applying DBR to design protocols for synchronous online Chinese learning: An activity theoretic perspective15
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners15
Audio-synchronized textual enhancement in foreign language pronunciation learning from videos15
How do pre-service language teachers perceive generative AIs’ affordance?:A case of ChatGPT15
Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-1915
A systematic review of research on distance language teaching (2011–2020): Focus on methodology15
Having a single language interest autonomously predicts L2 achievement: Addressing the predictive validity of L2 grit15
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching15
Editorial Board15
Ideal L2 self and willingness to communicate: A moderated mediation model of shyness and grit15
Peer interaction, writing proficiency, and the quality of collaborative digital multimodal composing task: Comparing guided and unguided planning15
I do and I understand: A virtual reality-supported collaborative design-assessing activity for EFL students15
Guest editorial: L2 pragmatics in language teacher education14
Addressing the challenges of interaction in online language courses14
Translanguaging multimodal pedagogy in French pronunciation instruction: Vis-à-vis students’ spontaneous translanguaging14
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers14
Translanguaging in Sweden: A critical review from an international perspective14
Bite-sized language teaching in the digital wild: Relational pedagogy and micro-celebrity English teachers on Instagram14
Exploring first-year university students’ learning journals: Conceptions of second language self-concept and self-efficacy for academic writing14
“I took physical lessons for granted”: A case study exploring students’ interpersonal interactions in online synchronous lessons during the outbreak of COVID-1914
Chinese character instruction online: A technology acceptance perspective in emergency remote teaching14
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning14
Professional development for English-medium instruction professors at Korean universities13
Editorial Board13
An exploratory study of EAP teachers' coping strategies13
The making of proficient young FL speakers: The role of emotions, speaking motivation, and spoken input beyond the classroom13
Engaging in classroom discussions: Academic socialisation of Chinese international students in the UK13
The effects of input mode in learning declarative and nondeclarative knowledge of L2 collocations13
The grass is not always greener: Teacher vs. GPT-assisted written corrective feedback13
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
A latent profile analysis of Chinese high school students’ control and value appraisals: Associations with enjoyment, boredom, and language achievement13
Grit, emotions, and their effects on ethnic minority students’ English language learning achievements: A structural equation modelling analysis13
Uncovering the mediating role of resilience between EFL teacher turnover intention and wellbeing: A conservation-of-resources theory perspective13
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections13
Effects of tasks and multimedia annotations on vocabulary learning13
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators13
Creativity and the linguistic features of argumentative and narrative written task performance13
Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts13
Reducing anxiety in the foreign language classroom: A positive psychology approach13
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation13
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation13
Interactive-whiteboard-technology-supported collaborative writing: Writing achievement, metacognitive activities, and co-regulation patterns12
The role of context in the word family debate12
Predicting content proficiency through disciplinary-literacy variables in English-medium writing12
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners12
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology12
Parental support for young learners’ online learning of English in a Chinese primary school12
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) 1012
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis12
Exploring expert teachers' cognitions and practices of teaching English speaking and their students’ experiences and engagement12
Book review11
Book review11
In celebration of Michael H. Long (1945–2021)11
Exploring Vietnamese primary school EFL teachers’ identities from a micropolitical perspective11
Editorial Board11
Book review11
Editorial Board11
Editorial Board11
Book review11
Book review11
Book review11
Protecting and enhancing willingness to communicate with idiodynamic peer-peer strategy sharing11
Book review11
Book review11
Book review11
Understanding L2 student writers’ self-assessment in digital multimodal composing: A process-oriented approach11
“I am not a native speaker …”: Exploring the perceived pronunciation teaching difficulties faced by Korean public elementary school English teachers10
Editorial Board10
Book review10
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing10
Book review10
Book review10
Transnational students' experiences of EMI in Myanmar's borderlands10
Uncovering the dimensionality of authorial voice in the integrated writing task: A confirmatory factor analysis study10
Book review10
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?10
An exploratory study of young EFL learners’ aural and written receptive multi-word unit knowledge10
Editorial Board10
Book review10
Book review10
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with Andrew D. Cohen10
Editorial Board9
Book review9
L2 listening in a digital era: Developing and validating the mobile-assisted self-regulated listening strategy questionnaire (MSRLS-Q)9
It is a task, not an exercise: What is the difference?9
Kinesic communication in traditional and digital contexts: An exploratory study of ESP undergraduate students9
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students9
Revisiting second language portfolio assessment in a new age9
Book review9
Exploring engagement of users of Global Englishes in a community of inquiry9
Enhancing student quality of life in language classrooms via Joint Exploratory Practice9
Editorial Board9
Low- to mid-level high school first-year EFL learners’ growth language mindset, grit, burnout, and engagement: Using serial mediation models to explore their relationships9
Examining a continuum of FL speaking anxiety over time in an EFL classroom in Japan9
Content-area teacher candidates’ identity work in an online teacher education course9
Structured input and structured output on the acquisition of English passive constructions: A self-paced reading study measuring accuracy, response and reading time9
Book review9
Interventionist and interactionist dynamic assessment of argumentative writing in an EFL program8
The contribution of affixes to productive English vocabulary knowledge for Chinese, German and Spanish learners: A comparison8
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses8
Measuring Chinese EFL learners’ motivation and anxiety when completing a video narration task: Initial steps in designing two questionnaires8
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews8
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary8
A dialogic approach to promoting professional development: Understanding change in Hong Kong language teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding vocabulary teaching and learning8
Comparing incidental vocabulary learning from reading-only and reading-while-listening8
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership8
Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?8
Understanding English teachers’ non-volitional use of online teaching: A Chinese study8
Book review8
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user8
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach8
Pushing the edge in narrative inquiry8
Fluctuations in Japanese English majors’ capacity to speak before, during and after studying abroad8
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