OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Taking stock: A meta-analysis of the effects of foreign language enjoyment	64
Exploring the predictive role of teacher immediacy and stroke behaviors in English as a foreign language university students’ academic burnout	28
Another look at boredom in language instruction: The role of the predictable and the unexpected	24
Potential sources of foreign language learning boredom: A Q methodology study	24
Exploring young EFL learners’ motivation: Individual versus pair work on dictogloss tasks	24
Translanguaging in a Chinese university CLIL classroom: Teacher strategies and student attitudes	21
Exploring the relationships between L2 vocabulary knowledge, lexical segmentation, and L2 listening comprehension	18
High school EFL students’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback: The role of gender, motivation and extraversion	17
Task repetition and collaborative writing by EFL children: Beyond CAF measures	17
Is learning really just believing? A meta-analysis of self-efficacy and achievement in SLA	16
Content and language integrated learning in Latin America 2008-2018: Ten years of research and practice	15
Second language listening comprehension: The role of anxiety and enjoyment in listening metacognitive awareness	14
Comparing self-determination theory and the L2 motivational self system and their relationships to L2 proficiency	14
Dynamic engagement in second language computer-mediated collaborative writing tasks: Does communication mode matter?	12
Investigating academic achievement of English medium instruction courses in Turkey	12
Gender differences in foreign language classroom anxiety: Results of a meta-analysis	12
Directed motivational currents: A systematic review	11
Foreign language education in rural schools: Struggles and initiatives among generalist teachers teaching English in Mexico	11
“I feel like it’s giving me a lot as a language teacher to be a learner myself”: Factors affecting the implementation of a multilingual pedagogy as reported by teachers of diverse languages	11
The effects of instructor clarity and non-verbal immediacy on Chinese and Iranian EFL students’ affective learning: The mediating role of instructor understanding	10
Exploring the importance of vocabulary for English as an additional language learners’ reading comprehension	10
A comparison of the impact of extensive and intensive reading approaches on the reading attitudes of secondary EFL learners	10
Teachers’ self‐reported L1 and L2 use and self‐assessed L2 proficiency in primary EFL education	9
How do differences in exposure affect English language learning? A comparison of teenagers in two learning environments	9
Through the looking glass of student perception: How foreign language students see teacher trait emotional intelligence and why it matters	9

Language-related episodes and pair dynamics in primary school CLIL learners: A comparison between proficiency-matched and student-selected pairs	8
English for specific purposes teachers’ beliefs about their motivational practices and student motivation at a Chinese university	7
The use of refusal strategies in interlanguage speech act performance of Korean and Norwegian users of English	7
On the fractal nature of complex syntax and the timescale problem	6
A state-of-the-art review of distribution-of-practice effects on L2 learning	6
The interface between task-modality and the use of previously known languages in young CLIL English learners	5
A longitudinal study on students’ self-regulated listening during transition to an English-medium transnational university in China	5
Chinese secondary school teachers’ conceptions of L2 assessment: A mixed-methods study	5
Investigating individual differences with qualitative research methods: Results of a meta-analysis of leading applied linguistics journals	5
EFL child peer interaction: Measuring the effect of time, proficiency pairing and language of interaction	5
Models as written corrective feedback: Effects on young L2 learners’ fluency in digital writing from product and process perspectives	5
Topic familiarity and story continuation in young English as a foreign language learners’ writing tasks	5