Language Teaching Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Teaching Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
High variability phonetic training facilitates categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in L2 older adults: A link to auditory processing80
Language exposure and English digital reading achievement in East Asia: Examining the role of students’ socioeconomic status79
Exploratory practice puzzling as praxis-oriented pronunciation teacher learning in Australian adult migrant EAL education74
Comparing different L3s and factors that affect motivation to learn LOTEs55
Synchronous computer-mediated communication and task-based learning in the EFL classroom41
Arab Israeli EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices vis-à-vis teaching higher-order thinking skills: A complicated relationship38
Dynamic positioning in identity development: Case studies of Chinese university English language teachers37
L1 mediation in Chinese English learners’ mental lexicon: Evidence from word association tests35
Metalinguistic explanations and their impact on incidental grammar acquisition: An eye-movement study35
Enhancing L2 sound learning through the integration of audio-visual information: Phonetic training in the classroom35
Student engagement with teacher oral feedback in EFL university classrooms33
The effects of motivational dispositions on oral L2 task emotions and performance: A regulatory focus perspective32
EMI as a problem, a right or a resource: Exploring misalignments in stakeholders’ views at one university in Taiwan30
The relationships between spoken and written input beyond the classroom and young EFL learners’ proficiency30
Nothing ventured, nothing gained: The impact of enjoyment and boredom on willingness to communicate in online foreign language classrooms29
Performance-based differences in the associations among ideal self, enjoyment, and anxiety: A longitudinal study on L2 integrated writing28
Notes on Contributors27
The interplay between corrective feedback timing and foreign language anxiety in L2 development27
Modelling boredom in the EFL context: An investigation of the role of coping self-efficacy, mindfulness, and foreign language enjoyment26
Fluency development in an EFL setting: A one-semester study24
Shifting perceptions of inclusive practitioner research: Epistemological affordances of exploratory practice23
Researching learners’ perceptions: The use of the repertory grid technique23
Model texts as a feedback instrument in second language writing: A systematic review22
The effects of proactive form-focused instruction and individual differences on second language acquisition22
Self-efficacy and professional development of Chinese language teachers in North Carolina secondary schools21
Exploring the relations among foreign language enjoyment, ideal L2 self, grit, and growth mindset in EFL learners: A cross-lagged analysis21
Going beyond practicing English: Language alternation in an L2 book club’s Zoom meetings21
L2 Vocabulary learning from reading: Effects of word-focused activity type, learner variables, and announcement21
To what extent are foreign language anxiety and foreign language enjoyment related to L2 fluency? An investigation of task-specific emotions and breakdown and speed fluency in an oral task20
Fluency issues in L2 academic presentations: Linguistic, cognitive and psychological influences on pausing behaviour20
Professional development for science and engineering professors offering English-medium instruction19
Does writing words in notes contribute to vocabulary learning?19
Classroom environment and willingness to communicate in English: The mediating role of emotions experienced by university students in China19
Providing vs. receiving peer feedback: Learners’ beliefs and experiences18
Effects of internal and external attentional manipulations and working memory on second language vocabulary learning18
A serial mediation model testing associations between teacher–student relationship, resilience, autonomous learning and academic performance in the Chinese EFL context17
A phenomenographic study of engineering students’ conceptions of learning English as a foreign language17
Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education17
Examining the perceptions and self-reported practices of L2 teachers in China regarding oral fluency: A conceptual replication and extension17
The differential effect of oral and written corrective feedback on learners’ explicit versus implicit knowledge17
The effect of the model of contingent teaching on improving Iranian EFL learners’ essay writing17
Task modality and language-related episodes in young learners: An attempt to manage accuracy and editing17
Potential influence of extensive reading on controlled productive vocabulary16
Enhancing intercultural communication skills: The impact of drama in Chinese language teaching16
Exploring Chinese higher vocational college teachers’ perceptions of reading and teaching reading in English16
Effect of L2 exposure, length of study, and L2 proficiency on EFL learners’ receptive knowledge of form–meaning connection and collocations of high-frequency words16
Long-term impacts of L1 language skills on L2 anxiety: The mediating role of language aptitude and L2 achievement15
Can willingness to communicate, communication in English anxiety, behavioural inhibition and behavioural action predict perceived L2 fluency?15
Exploring student engagement in task-based and communicative language classrooms15
Digitizing the story-writing process for EFL primary learners: An exploratory study14
Constructing and validating the teaching strategies for alleviating Chinese EFL graduate students’ foreign language anxiety14
Robotics and Weblog integration into EFL curriculum of middle and secondary schools: Exploratory study14
Enhancing student writing with do-it-yourself corpora on a PhD pre-sessional programme14
Abdominal enhancement techniques for L2 English phoneme pronunciation: Comparing the effectiveness of the techniques for Mandarin and Cantonese speakers13
A major change for ESP for nursing: Pivoting towards discourse through a new course design with communicative engagement as a focal concept13
Chinese heritage children learning to read characters: The effects of group reading and frequency of character exposure13
The interplay of glossing with text difficulty and comprehension levels13
Reading ability and challenges in a project-based academic report writing course: A test of the threshold hypothesis13
Learning foreign languages: pedagogical tools, emotional understanding and parents’ discourse13
‘May I do something for you?’: The effects of audio-visual material (captioned and non-captioned) on EFL pragmatic learning13
Qualitative research synthesis of project-based (language) learning and teaching in East and Southeast Asia: 2002–2413
Role-based interaction analysis for FLL: A sociocognitive UBL perspective13
Notes on Contributors13
The effects of various combinations of form-focused instruction techniques on the acquisition of English articles by second language learners of English12
Discourses of writing and learning to write in L2 writing curriculum in Chinese universities12
Evaluating a task-based language teaching course for low-proficiency learners in ESP classrooms in Japan12
Design of a dual-hierarchy scaffolding board game-based learning activity for EFL reading comprehension12
The effects of a cognitive linguistic approach on college students’ learning English tenses in Taiwan11
Positive psychology in action: Exploring the role of altruistic teaching in enhancing English reading comprehension among L2 learners11
Erratum to Finding success with pedagogical innovation: A case from CSL teachers’ experiences with TBLT11
Language learners’ stereotypical representations of France: Insights for teaching French as L3 with implications for minority foreign language crisis in China11
Implications of dispositions for foreign language writing: The case of the Arabic–English learner11
Comparing the effectiveness of verb-focused and particle-focused exercise formats on the recall and recognition of phrasal verbs11
Longitudinal videoconferencing and confidence development: The impact of perceived interlocutor cultural depth, richness, and self-involvement11
Designing for diversity in Aotearoa / New Zealand Chinese language classrooms11
Teaching second language pragmatics in the current era of globalization: An introduction11
Learners’ behavioral engagement and performance on linguistically difficult L2 reading tasks: The effects of effort feedback, self-efficacy, and attributions10
L2 learners’ mindfulness in relation to their memorization/learning of L2 phrasal verbs10
Exploring English language teachers’ beliefs about future readiness: Developing pedagogical practices for the 21st century10
Deliberate training and incidental learning through the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media: Capitalising on a European tool to enhance visual literacy and intercultu10
Primary school children’s peer interaction: Exploring EFL teachers’ perceptions and practices10
The impact of textual enhancement and frequency manipulation on incidental learning of collocations from reading10
The impact of future L2 selves and positive emotions on self-regulated writing strategies: A mixed method approach10
Statistical learning of L2 lexical bundles through unimodal, bimodal, and multimodal stimuli10
Practicing to sing in chorus: Challenges and opportunities of collaborative inquiry-based learning in an Iranian EFL secondary school context10
The pedagogical content knowledge of two novice Chinese early childhood EFL teachers10
Language achievement predicts anxiety and not the other way around: A cross-lagged panel analysis approach10
The role of institutional policy in English language teacher autonomy, agency, and identity: A poststructural perspective10
Implementation of an integrated intercultural literary pedagogy intervention in Spanish-as-a-foreign-language classrooms in the Netherlands: An effect study at the secondary level10
Fluency development through freewriting and transfer to other more structured tasks10
A comparative study of CLIL implementation in upper secondary school in Sweden and students’ development of L2 English academic vocabulary9
Structured instructional design for integrated language skill development: College students’ perspectives on collaborative reading-to-write activities using a cloud-based tool9
Factors predicting classroom WTC in English and French as foreign languages among adult learners in Spain9
A study of the effect of multimodal input on vocabulary acquisition: Evidence from online Chinese language learners9
Psychometric properties of a self-efficacy scale for English language learners in Vietnam9
Parental involvement and children’s L2 learning motivation and engagement: A person-centered approach9
Notes on Contributors9
Inclusivity and sustainability in language practitioner researcher development: A sociocultural ecological framework8
Evaluating the impact of spaced practice using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on vocabulary learning in the classroom8
Translating Willingness to Communicate into Learner Talk in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Classroom8
The limited effects of visual and audio modalities on second language listening comprehension8
Collaborative learning between Chinese and international students in an English as a medium of instruction environment: Friend or foe?8
Notes on Contributors8
English L2 vocabulary acquisition through storytelling for adolescents with and without learning disabilities8
Scaffolding student engagement with written corrective feedback: Transforming feedback sessions into learning affordances8
Content knowledge attainment in English medium instruction: Does academic English literacy matter?8
Unraveling the interplay between social-emotional need satisfaction and self-regulated learning: Longitudinal evidence from university students in China’s EMI programs8
Accuracy and response-time effects of structured input on the acquisition of English passive and active constructions: A self-paced reading study of native and non-native processing behaviours8
Analysing the use of particle verbs in German as a foreign language: Unproductive particle separation and a proposal for a data-driven learning intervention8
Generalizing linguistic patterns through data-driven learning: A study of the dative alternation in Japanese learners of English8
EFL students’ profiles of English reading self-efficacy: Relations with reading enjoyment, engagement, and performance8
Control-value appraisals, academic emotions, and student engagement: A case of Chinese EFL undergraduates8
A comparative analysis of language choices in written peer feedback provided by high- and low-proficiency Japanese EFL students8
Developing a reading proficiency scale for US college-level CSL courses: A complement to the ACTFL guidelines8
Debate pedagogy as a conducive environment for L2 argumentative essay writing8
A Q method study on Turkish EFL learners’ perspectives on the use of AI tools for writing: Benefits, concerns, and ethics8
To impart knowledge or to adhere to policy: Unpacking language ideologies and practices in Chinese EMI courses through a translanguaging lens8
Whose English should be talked and taught? Views from international English teachers in Thai higher education8
The role of teacher knowledge and practice in shaping EFL teachers’ glocal identity8
Intentional and incidental vocabulary acquisition through multi-component storytelling: The case of German L2 primary school students8
Exploring the role of strategy instruction on learners’ ability to write authentic email requests to faculty8
Positive emotions and intrinsic motivation: A self-determination theory perspective on using co-created stories in the language acquisition classroom7
Student teachers’ experience with improvisation activities for spontaneous speech practice in English7
Addressing discourse differences in the writing of Russian engineering students and international researchers7
How effective is task-based language teaching to enhance second language learning? A technical comment on Bryfonski and McKay (2019)7
The pedagogical and socio-affective dimensions of identity tensions and teacher agency: Case studies of university English teachers teaching online7
Impact of exercise format and repetition on learning verb–noun collocations7
Effect of pedagogic intervention in enhancing speech fluency by EFL students: A longitudinal study7
Effects of text messaging using digital Pinyin input on literacy skills of elementary school Chinese immersion learners7
L2 learners’ pragmatic output in a face-to-face vs. a computer-guided role-play task: Implications for TBLT7
The impact of cognate strategy training on guessing accuracy for unknown visually-presented words: The case of Japanese learners of English7
Japanese adolescents’ attitudes towards learning English: A perspective from the self-worth theory7
Fostering pre-service teachers’ perceived ability to implement dialogic teaching in Turkey: Examining the contributing factors of an intensive short-term teacher education program from the teacher-lea7
Faith or path? Profiling the motivations of multilingual Chinese as a foreign language teachers using Q methodology7
Becoming teachers of emergent bilinguals: Navigating ideological and identity tensions7
Developing and validating an L2 writing willingness to communicate scale: A sequential embedded mixed-methods approach7
Motivational profiles of EFL learners: A person-centered approach to uncovering gender differences7
Notes on Contributors7
The effects of incidental focus on form on learning vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation7
The auditory picture vocabulary test for English L2: A spoken receptive meaning-recognition test intended for Dutch-speaking L2 learners of English7
How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: A mixed modelling longitudinal investigation7
Does engagement with feedback matter? Unveiling the impact of learner engagement and grit on EFL learners’ English writing achievements7
Music as a Medium of Instruction (MMI): A new pedagogical approach to English language teaching for students with and without music training6
A structural relationship model for L2 oral proficiency, L2 interest, perceived importance of speaking, and out-of-class L2 contact6
The effects of flipped classroom approach in EFL teaching: Can we strategically use the flipped method to acquire communicative competence?6
Cognitive vs. metacognitive scaffolding strategies and EFL learners’ listening comprehension development6
Motivation and anxiety in Chinese EFL students’ listening process: An idiodynamic approach6
Epilogue: Intercultural dialogue, the arts, and (im)possibilities6
Moving beyond native-speakerism through identity-based teacher education: The roles of positioning and agency6
Lacking bridges and apprehensive tensions: The impact of emotions and contextual factors on German L3 teachers’ perceptions and grammar teaching practices6
Engagement with written corrective feedback: Examination of feedback types and think-aloud protocol as pedagogical interventions6
Learner agency and potential for creativity in writing task design and Chinese EFL students’ flow experiences in writing: A contextual perspective6
The perceived usefulness of pedagogical genres in EMI settings: A learner-informed comparative analysis of Engineering and Economics courses6
Online writing instruction: Understanding university EFL instructors’ beliefs and practices as a complex system6
EFL learners’ lexical availability: Effect of L1 background and prompt6
Teacher as creator: Orchestrating the learning environment to promote learner development6
The effect of positive emotion on foreign language teacher engagement and well-being: A cross-cultural comparison6
Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish6
Online journaling and language learning in intensive summer study abroad programs6
Measuring listening and speaking self-efficacy in EFL contexts: The development of the Communicative SE Questionnaire6
Motivational factors underlying learner preferences for corrective feedback: Language mindsets and achievement goals6
Classroom environment and engagement in the EFL writing context: The mediating role of goal orientations6
Notes on Contributors6
Effectiveness of interventions on improving English language learners’ intelligibility and comprehensibility: A meta-analytic review5
Exposure or age? The effect of additional CLIL instruction on young learners’ grammatical complexity while performing an oral task5
Teachers’ cognition and classroom implementation of tasks in task-supported language teaching (TSLT)5
Post-beginner L2-learner knowledge of ultra-frequent English words5
Developing crosslinguistic awareness through plurilingual consciousness-raising tasks5
Meta-analysis to estimate the relative effectiveness of TBLT programs: Are we there yet?5
Modelling the effects of the reading medium on L2 Spanish reading emotions: The moderating role of individual difference variables5
Use of the L1 and L2 in strategic planning and rehearsal for task performances in an online classroom5
A self-regulation perspective on L2 grit development and its impact on language achievement5
Effectiveness of written corrective feedback in developing L2 accuracy: A Bayesian meta-analysis5
Task repetition versus task rehearsal: Understanding effects of task-readiness factors and elemental genres on L2 writing task performance5
Exploring learner engagement with languages (LX) within and beyond the English classroom5
First-year writing in the humanities and social sciences: Requirements, expectations, and perceived weaknesses5
Notes on contributors5
A posthumanist orientation and cross-national, online bilingual digital storytelling5
EFL learners’ versus instructors’ attributions of success and failure factors: A complexity theory perspective5
The structural relationships among L2 motivation, out-of-class informal learning, and oral proficiency: A multiple-group structural equation modeling study5
The role of proficiency and pair formation method in language-related episodes: A study of young CLIL learners’ interaction5
Effects of teacher intervention and type of peer feedback on student writing revision5
Longitudinal study of Spanish vowel acquisition by Australian students5
A mixed methods approach to exploring grammar learning strategies in self-regulation task phases: Evidence from grounded theory and regression analysis5
Applying intelligent personal assistants to develop fluency and comprehensibility, and reduce accentedness in EFL learners: an empirical study of Google Assistant5
Language learning activities in the Spanish L2 classroom related to a task-based framework: What types are the most commonly occurring according to Swedish learners?5
Introducing a new protagonist in L2 Chinese narratives: Syntactic construction and information organization5
‘Are we really back to normal?’: A qualitative study on language teachers’ teaching practices during the post-COVID-19 era5
Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in teaching Chinese pronunciation5
The associations between individual differences in language aptitude and working memory, and the effectiveness of input and output based instruction5
Textbook authors’ perspectives on selecting and instructing Chinese characters and words in beginner and intermediate textbooks5
Investigating the potential of changing the smartphone system language to L2 for facilitating vocabulary learning and motivation5
The role of diagnostic writing assessment in promoting Chinese EFL students’ learning autonomy: An action research study5
Task repetition and corrective feedback via models and direct corrections among young EFL writers: Draft quality and task motivation5
Foreign language anxiety and achievement: A study of primary school students learning English in China5
Exploring Hungarian secondary school English teachers’ beliefs about differentiated instruction5
Emotional intelligence and second/foreign language achievement: A meta-analytic review5
Why motivated learners might not engage in language learning: An exploratory interview study of language learners and teachers4
Teachers’ practices of proactive and reactive classroom management strategies and the relationship to their self-efficacy4
An investigation into English majors’ self-regulated writing strategies in an online learning context4
Identity tensions of in-service teacher educators: A narrative inquiry4
Empowering critical digital literacy in EFL: Teachers’ evaluation of didactic materials involving the recognition of presupposed information4
The effects of topic familiarity on emotionality and linguistic complexity in EAP writing4
Towards necessities and challenges of implementing translanguaging pedagogy in secondary EFL education in China4
Improving second language vocabulary learning and retention by leveraging memory enhancement techniques: A multidomain pedagogical approach4
Learning specialized vocabulary in the second language: Does transfer from the first language help?4
Communication and the student experience in the time of Covid-19: An autoethnography4
Students’ performance and English as a medium of instruction: Do students learn less?4
‘This is a Chinese vegetable’: Language socialization in dinner table conversations of Chinese immigrant families in the U.S.4
How do L2 English readers approach proper names?4
The role of modality and working memory capacity in L2 production4
L2 vocabulary learning in a mixed-proficiency community-engaged program: Designing vocabulary instruction for college students4
The influence of Exploratory Practice (EP): How a group of former Brazilian ELT teacher-learners perceive the value of EP years after graduation4
Achievement goals, emotions and willingness to communicate in EFL learning: Combining variable- and person-centered approaches4
Task-based language teaching in a local EFL context: Chinese university teachers’ beliefs and practices4
The effect of task-based peer interaction and pre-task instruction on young EFL learners’ explicit and implicit knowledge of past tense: An intervention study4
Notes on Contributors4
Students’ display of willingness to participate in an extensive reading book club4
Notes on contributors4
Unpacking the negative side-effects of directed motivational currents in L2: An interpretative phenomenological analysis4
A systematic review of computer-mediated communications in Chinese as a foreign language from 2008 to 2022: Research contexts, theoretical foundations and methodology, affordances and limitations4
Examining EFL learners’ source text use in summary writing4
Greater complexity and higher efficiency: Effects of translanguaging during collaborative pre-task planning on EFL learners’ speaking performance4
The impact of altruism on the emotions and English summary writing skills of L2 learners: An intervention study in light of positive psychology4
Embodied enactment of a hypothetical scenario in an English medium instruction secondary mathematics classroom: A translanguaging approach3
An activity theory perspective on Vietnamese preservice English teachers’ identity construction in relation to tensions, emotion and agency3
Peer assessment in EFL teacher preparation: A longitudinal study of student perception3
Socio-material assemblages: (De)colonizing literacy curriculum in transnational education3
Motivation towards the foreign language (English) and regional language (Basque) in immersion schools: Does CLIL in the foreign language make a difference?3
Notes on contributors3
Some language learners don’t want help: Self-efficacy and teacher support in primary school foreign language classrooms3
Mapping reflexivity in situ: A multimodal exploration of negotiated textbook discourses in Korean university EFL classrooms3
Notes on Contributors3
Greater coverage vs. deeper processing? Comparing individual and collaborative processing of teacher feedback3
Language teachers’ identity tensions and professional practice in intercultural teaching3
Investigating grit in second language learning: The role of individual difference factors and background variables3
Empowering EFL learners through cognitive apprenticeship: A pathway to success in IELTS speaking proficiency3
Tapping into teacher feedback in digital storytelling: Learning outcomes, emotions, and perceptions3
Language learning strategies used by EFL students: Does their digital fluency matter?3
Multiple perspectives of stakeholders towards young learners’ language assessment in an international school in Malaysia3
Teaching methods emphasizing phonological forms enhance L2 vocabulary learning3
Notes on Contributors3
The effects of two methods of on-line planning on L2 task-based speaking performance and strategy use3
The interplay of task repetition and task rehearsal in L2 written production across varied proficiency levels3
How does repetition affect vocabulary learning through listening to the teacher’s explicit instruction? The moderating role of listening proficiency and preexisting vocabulary knowledge3
The importance of increased processing demands in the design of Elicited Imitation tests3
Examining EFL learners’ comprehension of derivational forms: The role of overlap with base word knowledge, word frequency, and contextual support3
Teaching humorous irony to L2 and heritage speakers of Spanish3
Exploring systematic orthographic crosslinguistic similarities to enhance foreign language vocabulary learning3
Effects of task complexity, task sequence, and interlocutor familiarity on Chinese EFL learners’ self-repair in synchronous online interaction3
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