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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching221
TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era163
Book review157
Editorial Board92
A narrative autobiographical exploration of language-in-education policy roles in a youth reengagement program89
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs85
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study85
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers82
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology79
When to conduct a vocabulary quiz, before the review or after the review?75
Book review75
Book review75
Subtitles for vocabulary learning: Assessing the effects of L2, L1, and bilingual subtitles over time74
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners69
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation69
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences67
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora66
The effect of pre-reading morphological intervention on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words63
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale63
English-as-a-foreign language university instructors' perceptions of integrating artificial intelligence: A Turkish perspective61
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts60
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL60
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus58
Conquering the tower of Babel? How linguistic distance affects second and foreign language reading in German, English, and French in year 9 in Germany56
Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?56
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) 1054
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students53
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 l53
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology53
Examining EFL learners’ oral advice production: The role of pragmatic demands and task complexity51
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership49
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production49
Book review48
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts48
Editorial Board48
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary47
Analysing preservice teachers' enactment of the UDL framework to support diverse students in a remote teaching context47
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis45
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education44
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education44
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach44
Book review44
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis43
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry43
Book review43
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout42
How age and L2 proficiency affectthe L2 lexicon41
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 competence41
Mapping the research on language teacher emotion: A systematic literature review40
Innovations in teaching L2 writing: How changes in teachers' SCK and PCK impact learners’ perceptions and writing outcomes39
Out-of-class English learning anxiety and its relation to motivation among Chinese university English majors39
The effects of phonics instruction on L2 phonological decoding and vocabulary learning: An experimental study of Chinese EFL learners39
When CLIL is for all: Improving learner motivation through peer-tutoring in Mathematics38
Editorial Board38
Growth of lexical and syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency in spoken production of first language and second language children38
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), 138
Editorial Board37
“Navigating Precarity”: Motivation of English language teachers in a Chinese higher vocational college36
Vocabulary learning in EMI courses: A longitudinal study of Chinese university students over a term36
Book review36
Teaching and learning interpersonal meanings in EFL in the school years36
Exploring the influence of teachers’ motivation, self-efficacy, and institutional support on their research engagement: A study of Chinese university EFL teachers35
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China35
Development of L2 disciplinary literacy: A multidimensional analysis35
Understanding student engagement with teacher and peer feedback in L2 writing34
ChatGPT affordance for logic learning strategies and its usefulness for developing knowledge and quality of logic in English argumentative writing33
Community of Inquiry perceptions and divergences between students and instructors32
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness32
Research on language learning motivation in school settings in System32
Development of morphological diversity in second language Korean: An NLP analysis using the Korean Morphological Richness Analyzer 1.031
A systematic review of reading self-efficacy in second or foreign language learning31
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration30
Exploring EFL learners' cognitive/emotional dissonance in content-based foreign language instruction: An ecological perspective30
Understanding EFL students’ use of self-made AI chatbots as personalized writing assistance tools: A mixed methods study29
Exploring L2 writing teachers’ feeling rules, emotional labor and regulation strategies29
The glocalisation of English-medium instruction examined through of the ROAD-MAPPING framework: A case study of teachers and students in a Vietnamese university29
ChatGPT as a tool for self-learning English among EFL learners: A multi-methods study29
Book review28
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing28
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 enjoyme27
Postgraduate Chinese EFL learners’ emotional vulnerability displays and regulation strategies27
“We were told that the content we delivered was not as important:” disconnect and disparities in world language student teaching during COVID-1926
Communicative pronunciation teaching: Insights from the Vietnamese tertiary EFL classroom26
FL listening motivation, interest, linguistic self-confidence, and overall proficiency: A complete double mediation model26
Yet another look at strategies for learning grammar: Validating the Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory in the Iranian EFL context26
Book review25
The role of positive learning emotions in sustaining cognitive motivation for multilingual development25
The dynamics of second-language learning experience and motivational variability: Focusing on a reflective autobiography25
Adapting to Complexity: Teacher-Student interactions in synchronous online language classes through a dynamic systems lens25
Book review25
Buoyancy and engagement in online English learning: The mediating roles and complex interactions of anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom25
Beyond ideologies of nativeness in the intelligibility principle for L2 English pronunciation: A corpus-supported review25
Book review24
The impact of early foreign language learning on language proficiency development from middle to high school24
Book review24
A comparative study of thematic choices and thematic progression patterns in human-written and AI-generated texts24
Evaluating AI's impact on self-regulated language learning: A systematic review23
Enjoyable, anxious, or bored? Investigating Chinese EFL learners’ classroom emotions and their engagement in technology-based EMI classrooms23
A latent profile analysis of EFL learners’ self-efficacy: Associations with academic emotions and language proficiency23
The dimensionality of L2 teacher self-regulation strategies and its interactions with teacher self-efficacy: Exploratory structural equation modeling23
Gender, metacognitive intervention, and dialogic interaction: EFL multimedia listening23
Enhancing Chinese university students' writing performance and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategy use through a strategy-based intervention22
Book review22
Book review22
Editorial Board22
In pursuit of pink elephants: Sociocultural Theory and the determination of learning in assessments that support L2 teaching and learning22
Promoting L2 reading fluency at the tertiary level through timed and repeated reading21
Book review21
Metacognitive strategies and self-efficacy co-shape L2 achievement: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach21
The impact of concordancing on English learners’ foreign language anxiety and enjoyment: An application of data-driven learning21
Book review21
Technology-enhanced self-regulated second language learning interventions: A systematic review21
NLP-based analysis of verb semantic cohesion in L2 writing: Interaction of genre and proficiency on verb networks21
The relationship of language anxiety and English learners’ accentedness, comprehensibility, and speech rate across three communication tasks21
Exploring the effect of corpus-informed and conventional homework materials on fostering EFL students’ grammatical construction learning21
Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape21
Integrated effects of interactional cognitions and emotional regulation capacity on peer interaction in the L2 classroom21
Book review21
The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution20
Rising China and rising Chinese: An investigation into African international students’ language beliefs20
The effect of self-perceived learning needs on self-regulated learning and learning outcomes in an EFL listening course20
Proficiency pairing and engagement with language in L2 peer interaction20
Examining Chinese EFL learners’ online self-regulated learning: A mixed-methods approach20
The relationship between L2 grit and vocabulary knowledge in first-year Moroccan university students20
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
Measuring Chinese junior high school students' language mindsets: What can we learn from young EFL learners’ beliefs in their language ability?20
A configurational exploration of how emotions influence willingness to communicate among Chinese EFL learners: A fsQCA approach20
The effects of chunk reading strategy training on the word chunking skills of L1-Japanese English learners20
ChatGPT: The catalyst for teacher-student rapport and grit development in L2 class20
Book review19
Unraveling the relationships among EFL teacher emotions, immunity, and teaching quality: A multilevel structural-equation modelling analysis19
The mediating effects of online learning engagement on the relationship between Chinese university students’ L2 grit and their English language achievement19
Mobilizing ‘context’: Vocabulary checks in ESL tutoring sessions19
Language teacher associations as a nexus of research and practice: A collaborative autoethnography19
Reflective dialogues in negotiating the research-practice nexus: A case study of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher-researcher collaboration19
Book review19
Implicit statistical learning and working memory predict EFL development and written task outcomes in adolescents19
Contributions of foreign language writing emotions to writing achievement19
Covid-19 as a critical incident: Reflection on language assessment literacy and the need for radical changes19
Development and initial validation of learner engagement with teacher written corrective feedback scale18
Internationally mobile students’ language views in an Inner Circle English writing course18
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
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 study18
Exploring the intricate relationship between foreign language anxiety, attention and self-repairs during L2 speech production18
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 context17
Interpersonal resources in letter writing of young L2 Chinese learners17
Directed Motivational Currents in L2: A focus on triggering factors, initial conditions, and (non)defining features17
Investigating the ecological validity of second language writing assessment tasks17
Book review17
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi–mediated writing model17
Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances17
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence: Listener responses in Chinese as a second language17
Book review17
Corrigendum to “Engaging in dialogic peer feedback in L2 writing development: A microgenetic approach” [System 126 (2024) 103513]17
Self-regulated strategy instruction: Insights from ESP teachers at a Chinese university and vocational college16
Enhancing the research-praxis nexus: Critical moments implementing translanguaging pedagogies in English language education at an Austrian middle school16
Effect of interactive intensity on lexical alignment and L2 writing quality16
Inclusive teaching practices implemented in primary school bilingual programmes in Spain: Teachers’ views and associated factors16
Book review16
Native speakers aren't perfect’: Japanese English learners' identity transformation as English users16
Foregrounding language teacher agency and positioning of EFL teachers in the research-practice nexus16
Linguistic alignment in second language acquisition: A methodological review16
Book review16
Corrigendum to “Managing classroom misbehaviours in the Hong Kong English Medium Instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging perspective” [System 113 (2023) 102959]16
Activity choice and perceptions: Influencing factors to learning outcomes within videoconference-enhanced LMS courses16
Reporting practices in applied linguistics quantitative research articles across a decade: A methodological synthesis16
Teaching English on a desert island: Primary school teachers' emotional experiences and professional identities16
Book review16
Effects of processing tasks on children's learning of second language words16
Book review16
Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-1915
The emotional landscape of online teaching: An autoethnographic exploration of vulnerability and emotional reflexivity15
Conversation for co-learning in the eikaiwa classroom15
Situating emotionality within socialization in study abroad contexts: The Student's perspective15
Peer interaction, writing proficiency, and the quality of collaborative digital multimodal composing task: Comparing guided and unguided planning15
Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts15
Gender differences in the relations between EFL students' classroom relationships and English language proficiency: The mediating role of self-regulated learning strategy use15
Profiling L2 students’ writing self-efficacy and its relationship with their writing strategies for self-regulated learning15
Metacognitive strategies, writing self-efficacy and writing anxiety in different learning modes: A two-wave longitudinal model15
Guest editorial: L2 pragmatics in language teacher education15
The effect of spacing on incidental and deliberate learning of L2 collocations15
Reducing anxiety in the foreign language classroom: A positive psychology approach14
Editorial Board14
Book review14
Examining Chinese teachers’ emotional vulnerability of teaching international students in an English medium instruction programme14
Photo-narrative frames: Using visuals with narrative research in applied linguistics14
Book review14
Exploring ChatGPT-supported teacher feedback in the EFL context14
A word to the wise: Crafting impactful prompts for ChatGPT14
Revisiting CALL normalization through a Yin–Yang ecological perspective: A study on teacher intentionality and classroom technology use of a claimed reluctant user14
Investigating the mediating role of positive and negative beliefs about competition and competitive orientation in the relationship between language mindsets and emotions14
Raising the (meta)pragmatic awareness of non-native pre-service teachers of L2 Italian with a telecollaborative data-driven learning project on formal email writing14
Book review14
The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools14
From out-group to in-group: Exercising agency for gaining membership through statement of purposes writing14
A latent profile analysis of emotional intelligence and its relationship with L2 student writing feedback literacy14
Book review14
An empirical approach to measuring accent familiarity: Phonological and correlational analyses14
Book review14
Looking into English-medium instruction teachers’ metadiscourse: An ELF perspective13
Achievement goals and emotions of Chinese EFL students: A control-value theory approach13
Effects of Global Englishes-oriented pedagogy in the EFL classroom13
Multimedia enhanced vocabulary learning: The role of input condition and learner-related factors13
Understanding assessment tasks: Learners’ and teachers’ perceptions of cognitive load of integrated speaking tasks for TBLT implementation13
Models of EMI pedagogies: At the interface of language use and interaction13
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the L2 teacher boredom scale13
Metaphor use in describing English public speaking anxiety by Chinese university EFL learners13
Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?13
The emergence of boredom in an online language class: An ecological perspective13
Language teachers as pedagogical designers in technology-mediated language education13
Evaluating the roles of breadth and depth of aural vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension of EFL learners: An investigation applying auditory measures12
An ecological perspective on learner agency: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL students in peer reviews12
Book review12
Editorial Board12
Facilitating EFL learners' intercultural competence through culturally responsive teaching in oral English classrooms12
Conversation Cloud: A videoconferencing learning ecology for Thai undergraduate EFL learners12
Book review12
Investigating teacher questioning in Hong Kong secondary EMI classrooms: (Mis)alignment between beliefs and practices12
Effect of auditory precision on L2 speech learning is partially mediated by learning target and instruction form12
Book review12
Language teacher investment as resistance: Why do teachers engage in practitioner research in an uneven world12
Pre-service teachers' understanding of teaching L2 French interactional competence through TBLT: Insights from task design processes and post-implementation reflections12
Emotion labor and professional identity construction of TESOL teacher educators12
Rapport in research interviews: An interdiscursive perspective12
Exploring the linguistic signature of interpersonal liking in second language interaction12
An overview of TBLT approaches and cognitive processes with heritage language learners12
System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with professor Jean-Marc Dewaele11
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
Strategies of teaching knowledge in English-medium instruction lectures: A Legitimation Code Theory perspective11
Exploring students’ demotivation and remotivation in learning English11
A study on the affordances of digital fairy-tale rewriting: A critical literacy approach to digital multimodal composing11
Book review11
The mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between foreign language anxiety and learning burnout among college students with different language environments11
An exploratory study on the potential of machine reading comprehension as an instructional scaffolding device in second language reading lessons11
The use of online dictionaries in video-mediated L2 interactions for the social accomplishment of Virtual Exchange tasks11
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]11
Metacognitive instruction in technology-mediated TBLT: An Exploratory Case Study of Learners’ Engagement11
The effect of “at home” network communication, off-site travel, and extracurricular activity on longitudinal social network development in study abroad11
Reading aloud listening test items to young learners: Attention, item understanding, and test performance11
Becoming a teacher in the era of AI: A multiple-case study of pre-service teachers’ investment in AI-facilitated learning-to-teach practices11
Investigating the capability of ChatGPT for generating multiple-choice reading comprehension items11
Exploring Chinese university students’ motivation and engagement in English medium instruction: A latent profiling approach11
Book review11
EFL university students’ game element preferences and learning needs: Implications for the instructional design of digital gamified classes11
Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions11
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