System

Papers
(The TQCC of System is 11. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book review277
Book review193
Book review156
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL154
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts124
A narrative autobiographical exploration of language-in-education policy roles in a youth reengagement program122
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching119
EFL students’ self-regulated learning, motivation, and perceived teacher support in cooperative learning: A network analysis perspective109
How engagement dynamics shape collaborative writing processes: Perspectives from EAL learners109
Subtitles for vocabulary learning: Assessing the effects of L2, L1, and bilingual subtitles over time104
The effect of pre-reading morphological intervention on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words104
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation101
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale98
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora96
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study92
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences91
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology88
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs81
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners80
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus79
English-as-a-foreign language university instructors' perceptions of integrating artificial intelligence: A Turkish perspective79
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 l75
Conquering the tower of Babel? How linguistic distance affects second and foreign language reading in German, English, and French in year 9 in Germany75
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students73
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis69
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology67
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach66
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry66
Editorial Board62
Book review60
Book review59
Book review59
Mapping the research on language teacher emotion: A systematic literature review58
Teacher professional development in focus: Dealing with students’ chat-based contributions in online teaching57
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production57
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts53
Examining EFL learners’ oral advice production: The role of pragmatic demands and task complexity52
“Like porcupines and hedgehogs”: Building positive teacher-student relationships in L2 classroom assessment from a relationships motivation theory perspective51
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education49
A typology of metalinguistic feedback49
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership48
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout48
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) 1048
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education47
Analysing preservice teachers' enactment of the UDL framework to support diverse students in a remote teaching context47
Integrating language and history teaching through cognitive discourse functions: A closer look at the learning outcomes of a design-based research project46
Reflective teaching, teacher immunity, and burnout: Investigating possible links46
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis44
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 competence43
Book review43
Editorial Board42
Innovations in teaching L2 writing: How changes in teachers' SCK and PCK impact learners’ perceptions and writing outcomes42
Vocabulary learning in EMI courses: A longitudinal study of Chinese university students over a term40
Assessing writing quality in story continuation writing tasks: The role of linguistic alignment40
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness40
Editorial Board40
The glocalisation of English-medium instruction examined through of the ROAD-MAPPING framework: A case study of teachers and students in a Vietnamese university39
When CLIL is for all: Improving learner motivation through peer-tutoring in Mathematics39
Exploring EFL learners' cognitive/emotional dissonance in content-based foreign language instruction: An ecological perspective38
Development of morphological diversity in second language Korean: An NLP analysis using the Korean Morphological Richness Analyzer 1.037
Corrigendum to “The impact of AI chatbots on EFL learners’ oral proficiency and willingness to communicate” [System 136 (2026) 103919]37
Book review37
Community of Inquiry perceptions and divergences between students and instructors36
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration36
“Navigating Precarity”: Motivation of English language teachers in a Chinese higher vocational college35
Growth of lexical and syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency in spoken production of first language and second language children34
Beyond monologues – Examining L2 Finnish learners’ interpersonal behavior during dialogue speaking tasks using the computer-joystick method34
Apology strategies and ritual frame indicating expressions (RFIEs) in advanced Korean learners’ Chinese: An interlanguage pragmatic study34
Development of L2 disciplinary literacy: A multidimensional analysis33
Exploring the influence of teachers’ motivation, self-efficacy, and institutional support on their research engagement: A study of Chinese university EFL teachers33
Research on language learning motivation in school settings in System33
Linking mindsets to emotions in foreign language learning: A study integrating situated expectancy-value and control-value theories across proficiency levels32
Affordances and learner agency: Chinese EFL learners’ English vlogging practices on Douyin32
ChatGPT affordance for logic learning strategies and its usefulness for developing knowledge and quality of logic in English argumentative writing31
Out-of-class English learning anxiety and its relation to motivation among Chinese university English majors31
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China31
Developing an AI-assisted learning flow framework for pre-service teachers of Chinese as a second language: Investigating the influence of teacher educators’ support on AI-flow and self-efficacy in te31
Understanding student engagement with teacher and peer feedback in L2 writing30
ChatGPT as a tool for self-learning English among EFL learners: A multi-methods study30
A systematic review of reading self-efficacy in second or foreign language learning30
Exploring L2 writing teachers’ feeling rules, emotional labor and regulation strategies30
Understanding EFL students’ use of self-made AI chatbots as personalized writing assistance tools: A mixed methods study30
Conceptualizing and measuring foreign language reading boredom29
Book review29
Mind the cognitive load gap: Student translators’ cognitive demands and translation behaviors in GenAI-assisted legal translation29
Book review29
Harnessing AI in academic writing: The complex interplay of AI literacy and self-directed learning among university L2 learners29
Postgraduate Chinese EFL learners’ emotional vulnerability displays and regulation strategies28
Book review28
Learner engagement in comprehension-based and production-based tasks: Insights from young learners through an ecological perspective28
A comparative study of thematic choices and thematic progression patterns in human-written and AI-generated texts28
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 enjoyme28
Book review28
L2 speaking functional adequacy in study abroad: Development in monologic and dialogic task conditions28
The dynamics of second-language learning experience and motivational variability: Focusing on a reflective autobiography28
The role of positive learning emotions in sustaining cognitive motivation for multilingual development27
Enjoyable, anxious, or bored? Investigating Chinese EFL learners’ classroom emotions and their engagement in technology-based EMI classrooms27
Does instructional language matter in CLIL? A study of learner proficiency and affective factors27
Interplay among assessment practices, legitimacy of multimodality and learner identity: The case of embodied multimodal composing in L2 writing classes27
Beyond ideologies of nativeness in the intelligibility principle for L2 English pronunciation: A corpus-supported review27
The impact of early foreign language learning on language proficiency development from middle to high school27
FL listening motivation, interest, linguistic self-confidence, and overall proficiency: A complete double mediation model27
Buoyancy and engagement in online English learning: The mediating roles and complex interactions of anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom26
Evaluating AI's impact on self-regulated language learning: A systematic review26
Adapting to Complexity: Teacher-Student interactions in synchronous online language classes through a dynamic systems lens26
The dimensionality of L2 teacher self-regulation strategies and its interactions with teacher self-efficacy: Exploratory structural equation modeling26
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing26
Yet another look at strategies for learning grammar: Validating the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Iranian EFL context26
The relationship of language anxiety and English learners’ accentedness, comprehensibility, and speech rate across three communication tasks25
Book review25
The impact of concordancing on English learners’ foreign language anxiety and enjoyment: An application of data-driven learning25
NLP-based analysis of verb semantic cohesion in L2 writing: Interaction of genre and proficiency on verb networks25
Book review25
Integrated effects of interactional cognitions and emotional regulation capacity on peer interaction in the L2 classroom25
Editorial Board24
Editorial Board24
Doing the task, doing the relationship: Responses to self-assessment and advice in peer reflection on microteaching24
Promoting L2 reading fluency at the tertiary level through timed and repeated reading24
Metacognitive strategies and self-efficacy co-shape L2 achievement: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach24
In pursuit of pink elephants: Sociocultural Theory and the determination of learning in assessments that support L2 teaching and learning24
Learning to construct authorial voice through citations: A longitudinal case study of L2 postgraduate novice writers23
Enhancing Chinese university students' writing performance and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategy use through a strategy-based intervention23
ChatGPT: The catalyst for teacher-student rapport and grit development in L2 class23
Technology-enhanced self-regulated second language learning interventions: A systematic review23
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution23
Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape23
Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners’ acquisition of Italian consonant length contrast22
Book review22
Rising China and rising Chinese: An investigation into African international students’ language beliefs22
Internationally mobile students’ language views in an Inner Circle English writing course22
Bidirectional relationship between L2 pragmatic development and learner identity in a study abroad context22
Implicit statistical learning and working memory predict EFL development and written task outcomes in adolescents22
Mobilizing ‘context’: Vocabulary checks in ESL tutoring sessions22
Unraveling the relationships among EFL teacher emotions, immunity, and teaching quality: A multilevel structural-equation modelling analysis21
The effects of chunk reading strategy training on the word chunking skills of L1-Japanese English learners21
Transcending the boundaries of mode in online language teaching: A translanguaging perspective on ESL teachers’ synchronous small group online tutorials21
CACTI: Use of a survey instrument as a semistructured interview protocol to facilitate teacher retrospection on bi/multilingual practices in EMI21
Examining Chinese EFL learners’ online self-regulated learning: A mixed-methods approach21
Development and initial validation of learner engagement with teacher written corrective feedback scale21
A configurational exploration of how emotions influence willingness to communicate among Chinese EFL learners: A fsQCA approach21
The effects of AI-assisted feedback on students’ perceptions, emotions, and learning outcomes in L2 writing: a three-level meta-analysis21
The relationship between L2 grit and vocabulary knowledge in first-year Moroccan university students21
Reflective dialogues in negotiating the research-practice nexus: A case study of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher-researcher collaboration21
Modelling the interrelationships among self-regulated learning components, critical thinking and reading comprehension by PLS-SEM: A mixed methods study21
Using a metaphor task to explore TESOL students’ beliefs about the roles of teachers21
Topicalization as a practice for facilitating L2 discussion in video-mediated extensive reading book club meetings21
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement21
The effect of self-perceived learning needs on self-regulated learning and learning outcomes in an EFL listening course21
Language teacher associations as a nexus of research and practice: A collaborative autoethnography21
Book review20
Guest editorial: L2 pragmatics in language teacher education20
Editorial Board20
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words20
Foregrounding language teacher agency and positioning of EFL teachers in the research-practice nexus20
Corrigendum to “Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective” [System 113 (2023) 102959]20
The mediating effects of online learning engagement on the relationship between Chinese university students’ L2 grit and their English language achievement20
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]20
Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis20
The effect of social media use on language learning: A meta-analysis19
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks18
Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances18
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners18
Book review18
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users18
Book review18
Book review18
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model18
Book review18
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college17
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities17
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review17
Book review17
Enhancing the research-praxis nexus: Critical moments implementing translanguaging pedagogies in English language education at an Austrian middle school17
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language17
Book review17
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model17
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features17
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom17
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors17
Exploring patterns of L2 development in study abroad: Insights from cluster analysis16
Developing critical minds: An ethnographic study on the implementation of conspiracy theories to foster critical digital literacy in English language classrooms16
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality16
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses16
Situating emotionality within socialization in study abroad contexts: The Student's perspective16
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning16
Deferred multimodal input enhances L2 listening and fast-speech adaptation: A predictive coding perspective16
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity16
Peer interaction, writing proficiency, and the quality of collaborative digital multimodal composing task: Comparing guided and unguided planning16
Book review15
The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools15
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context15
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user15
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections15
Editorial Board15
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts15
Book review15
Book review15
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners15
Talking science: Women scientists’ engagement in spoken public science communication online15
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use15
“We don't say ‘To-r Ó-nto. We say ‘To-r Ó-no.” Language ideologies on TikTok15
A latent profile analysis of emotional intelligence and its relationship with L2 student writing feedback literacy15
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation14
Language teachers as pedagogical designers in technology-mediated language education14
The emergence of boredom in an online language class: An ecological perspective14
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the L2 teacher boredom scale14
Implementing reading circles in an EAP course: Novice academic learners’ co-regulation strategies and their attitudinal dispositions14
Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme14
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?14
Evaluating the roles of breadth and depth of aural vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension of EFL learners: An investigation applying auditory measures14
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators14
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach14
Measuring the Global Englishes mindset: Development and validation of the GEM-Q for EFL learners14
A word to the wise: Crafting impactful prompts for ChatGPT14
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing14
Investigating the mediating role of positive and negative beliefs about competition and competitive orientation in the relationship between language mindsets and emotions14
Investigating teacher questioning in Hong Kong secondary EMI classrooms: (Mis)alignment between beliefs and practices14
Effects of Global Englishes-oriented pedagogy in the EFL classroom14
Book review14
Writing from Abroad: Linguistic complexity and L2 Arabic writing quality across genres14
Multimedia enhanced vocabulary learning: The role of input condition and learner-related factors14
Language teacher investment as resistance: Why do teachers engage in practitioner research in an uneven world13
Book review13
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
Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions13
Book review13
EFL university students’ game element preferences and learning needs: Implications for the instructional design of digital gamified classes13
Effect of auditory precision on L2 speech learning is partially mediated by learning target and instruction form13
Becoming a teacher in the era of AI: A multiple-case study of pre-service teachers’ investment in AI-facilitated learning-to-teach practices13
Critical digital literacies, generative AI, and the negotiation of agency in human-AI interactions13
The mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between foreign language anxiety and learning burnout among college students with different language environments13
Book review13
Exploring the linguistic signature of interpersonal liking in second language interaction13
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews13
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses13
Rapport in research interviews: An interdiscursive perspective13
Alignment between intended and enacted pedagogies: A study of ELT curriculum innovation implementation in Pakistan13
Facilitating EFL learners' intercultural competence through culturally responsive teaching in oral English classrooms13
Editorial Board13
Carnivalesque: Staging postdigital literacy13
The impact of input mode on incidental vocabulary learning for CSL learners: Evidence from offline tests and eye-tracking studies13
An overview of TBLT approaches and cognitive processes with heritage language learners13
Reading aloud listening test items to young learners: Attention, item understanding, and test performance13
The effect of “at home” network communication, off-site travel, and extracurricular activity on longitudinal social network development in study abroad13
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with professor Jean-Marc Dewaele13
Modeling writing self-efficacy over time and across tasks in an EFL context12
Book review12
An exploratory study on the potential of machine reading comprehension as an instructional scaffolding device in second language reading lessons12
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]12
Strategies of teaching knowledge in English-medium instruction lectures: A Legitimation Code Theory perspective12
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