OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Why am I learning English? Spanish EFL sports science university students´ motivational orientations through the prism of the L2 motivational self system	174
A person-specific perspective on the dynamics of anxiety in foreign language learning: A dynamic P-technique factor analysis	70
Unraveling EMI as a predictor of English proficiency in Vietnamese higher education: Exploring learners’ backgrounds as a variable	64
Language learners’ emotion regulation and enjoyment in an online collaborative writing program	50
Editorial	44
Models as written corrective feedback: Effects on young L2 learners’ fluency in digital writing from product and process perspectives	40
Second language psychological speaking and listening needs: Scale development, symbiosis, and demographic differences	35
Second language learner engagement in computer-mediated interactive oral tasks	34
Introduction to the special issue on English medium instruction: Areas of research needing urgent attention	33
The role of cognitive individual differences in digital versus pen-and-paper writing	31
Task-based elementary Spanish in rural Indiana: A practice-based collaboration	24
When my teachers think I can, then I know I can: A systematic review	23
Revisiting the relationship between global and specific levels of foreign language boredom and language engagement: A moderated mediation model of academic buoyancy and emotional engagement	21
Musical hearing and the acquisition of foreign-language intonation	20
Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on conducting research syntheses on individual differences in SLA	20
The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies: A study in micro-bibliometrics	18
Autonomy in language education: Theory, research and practice	18
Introduction to the special issue on ability beliefs and learning a new language at school	18
“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	17
A longitudinal study on students’ self-regulated listening during transition to an English-medium transnational university in China	16
Relative complexity in a model of word difficulty: The role of loanwords in vocabulary size tests	15
Reviewers for Volume 14/2024	14
Directed motivational currents: A systematic review	13
Investigating individual differences with qualitative research methods: Results of a meta-analysis of leading applied linguistics journals	12
To lead or not to lead: The fluctuation of peer leadership in collaborative oral argumentation	12

Content teachers’ and lecturers’ corrective feedback in EMI classes in high school and university settings	11
Introduction to the special issue on L2 writing and feedback processing and use in pen and paper and digital environments: Advancing research and practice	11
When to switch captions off? Exploring the effects of L2 proficiency and vocabulary knowledge on comprehension of captioned and uncaptioned TV	11
Second language listening comprehension: The role of anxiety and enjoyment in listening metacognitive awareness	10
Language teacher professional curiosity: Understanding the drive for professional development	9
Modeling the interaction between teacher credibility, teacher confirmation, and English major students’ academic engagement: A sequential mixed-methods approach	9
Reviewers for Volume 12/2022	9
Learner-generated content, task engagement, affective response, and memory on technology-mediated conversation tasks	9
Effects of EMI-CLIL on secondary-level students’ English learning: A multilevel meta-analysis	8
Specialized vocabulary across languages: The case of traditional Chinese medicine	8
Review of An advanced guide to multilingualism by Larissa Aronin	7
Promoting equity in study abroad: A focus on first-generation and students of color in the USA	7
Instructed second language acquisition research methods	7
Review of Learning words from reading: A cognitive model of word-meaning inference; Author: Megumi Hamada; Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021; ISBN: 978-1-3501-5368-4; Pages: 168	7
Beyond achievement goals: How different goals drive second language learning and achievement	7
Research across contexts and timescales with the experience sampling method: Applications in the study of language anxiety	7
When time matters: Mechanisms of change in a mediational model of foreign language playfulness and L2 learners’ emotions using latent change score mediation model	7
How do text type, prior vocabulary knowledge, and working memory capacity affect second language incidental vocabulary learning through reading?	7