| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Effectiveness of L2 Instruction: A Research Synthesis and Quantitative Meta-analysis | Language Learning | 2000 | 1,461 |
| 2 | How Big Is “Big”? Interpreting Effect Sizes in L2 Research | Language Learning | 2014 | 1,054 |
| 3 | CULTURAL THOUGHT PATTERNS IN INTER-CULTURAL EDUCATION | Language Learning | 1966 | 961 |
| 4 | A COURSE IN MODERN LINGUISTICS | Language Learning | 1958 | 945 |
| 5 | The Case Against Grammar Correction in L2 Writing Classes | Language Learning | 1996 | 890 |
| 6 | Foreign Accent, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility in the Speech of Second Language Learners | Language Learning | 1995 | 789 |
| 7 | Research on Negotiation: What Does It Reveal About Second-Language Learning Conditions, Processes, and Outcomes? | Language Learning | 1994 | 695 |
| 8 | Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper | Language Learning | 2009 | 678 |
| 9 | NATURAL SEQUENCES IN CHILD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION1 | Language Learning | 1974 | 664 |
| 10 | The Subtle Effects of Language Anxiety on Cognitive Processing in the Second Language | Language Learning | 1994 | 650 |
| 11 | Motivation: Reopening the Research Agenda | Language Learning | 1991 | 643 |
| 12 | Lexical Development in Bilingual Infants and Toddlers: Comparison to Monolingual Norms | Language Learning | 1993 | 626 |
| 13 | Patterns of Interaction in ESL Pair Work | Language Learning | 2002 | 621 |
| 14 | The Effectiveness of Corrective Feedback in SLA: A Meta‐Analysis | Language Learning | 2010 | 602 |
| 15 | Why Are You Learning a Second Language? Motivational Orientations and Self-Determination Theory | Language Learning | 2000 | 557 |
| 16 | Evidence for Multicompetence | Language Learning | 1992 | 517 |
| 17 | Interactions Between Type of Instruction and Type of Language Feature: A Meta‐Analysis | Language Learning | 2010 | 515 |
| 18 | THE EFFECT OF AFFECT ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING: A REVIEW OF THE ANXIETY RESEARCH | Language Learning | 1978 | 483 |
| 19 | Age of Onset and Nativelikeness in a Second Language: Listener Perception Versus Linguistic Scrutiny | Language Learning | 2009 | 474 |
| 20 | Motivation, Self-confidence, and Group Cohesion in the Foreign Language Classroom | Language Learning | 1994 | 469 |
| 21 | Investigating Fluency in EFL: A Quantitative Approach* | Language Learning | 1990 | 458 |
| 22 | Attention, Memory, and the “Noticing” Hypothesis | Language Learning | 1995 | 445 |
| 23 | Anxiety and Second-Language Learning: Toward a Theoretical Clarification* | Language Learning | 1989 | 440 |
| 24 | The Influence of Task Structure and Processing Conditions on Narrative Retellings | Language Learning | 1999 | 428 |
| 25 | Investigating the Relationship Between Vocabulary Knowledge and Academic Reading Performance: An Assessment Perspective | Language Learning | 2002 | 428 |
| 26 | Some Empirical Evidence for the Involvement Load Hypothesis in Vocabulary Acquisition | Language Learning | 2001 | 424 |
| 27 | Introduction: Investigating Form-Focused Instruction | Language Learning | 2001 | 423 |
| 28 | MARKEDNESS AND THE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS HYPOTHESIS | Language Learning | 1977 | 422 |
| 29 | Attitudes, Motivation, and Second Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Conducted by Gardner and Associates | Language Learning | 2003 | 416 |
| 30 | Attitudes, Orientations, and Motivations in Language Learning: Advances in Theory, Research, and Applications | Language Learning | 2003 | 415 |
| 31 | Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Language Learning Outcomes | Language Learning | 1996 | 412 |
| 32 | Conceptualizing Motivation in Foreign-Language Learning* | Language Learning | 1990 | 407 |
| 33 | Methods and Results in the Study of Anxiety and Language Learning: A Review of the Literature* | Language Learning | 1991 | 392 |
| 34 | Biases in Self-Ratings of Second Language Proficiency: The Role of Language Anxiety | Language Learning | 1997 | 392 |
| 35 | Language Anxiety: Differentiating Writing and Speaking Components | Language Learning | 1999 | 389 |
| 36 | Evidence in Favor of a Broad Framework for Pronunciation Instruction | Language Learning | 1998 | 378 |
| 37 | The Influence of Attitudes and Affect on Willingness to Communicate and Second Language Communication | Language Learning | 2004 | 372 |
| 38 | LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ESL STUDENTS | Language Learning | 1985 | 368 |
| 39 | IS THERE A “NATURAL SEQUENCE” IN ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING? | Language Learning | 1974 | 362 |
| 40 | What Makes Learning Second-Language Grammar Difficult? A Review of Issues | Language Learning | 2005 | 356 |
| 41 | Learner Uptake in Communicative ESL Lessons | Language Learning | 2001 | 354 |
| 42 | Negotiation of Form, Recasts, and Explicit Correction in Relation to Error Types and Learner Repair in Immersion Classrooms | Language Learning | 1998 | 352 |
| 43 | LATERALIZATION, LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND THE CRITICAL PERIOD: SOME NEW EVIDENCE | Language Learning | 1973 | 351 |
| 44 | SHOULD WE TEACH CHILDREN SYNTAX? | Language Learning | 1973 | 348 |
| 45 | Verb‐Noun Collocations in Second Language Writing: A Corpus Analysis of Learners’ English | Language Learning | 2011 | 343 |
| 46 | THE EFFECT OF FAMILIARITY ON THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF NONNATIVE SPEECH | Language Learning | 1984 | 342 |
| 47 | Writing Expertise and Second-Language Proficiency* | Language Learning | 1989 | 338 |
| 48 | Gender Agreement in Adult Second Language Learners and Spanish Heritage Speakers: The Effects of Age and Context of Acquisition | Language Learning | 2008 | 338 |
| 49 | The Relationship Between Native Speaker Judgments of Nonnative Pronunciation and Deviance in Segmentais, Prosody, and Syllable Structure | Language Learning | 1992 | 335 |
| 50 | On the Measurement of Affective Variables in Second Language Learning | Language Learning | 1993 | 325 |
