Topic · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Most cited papers in EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
What are the most cited papers in EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning?
The most cited paper in EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning is "Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy" (Stefan Frazier, H. Douglas Brown, 2001), with 6,240 citations. Next come "THEORETICAL BASES OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TESTING" (5,011) and "The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1" (4,905).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 940 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Stefan Frazier, H. Douglas Brown · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 6,240 |
| 2 | THEORETICAL BASES OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TESTING Michael Canale, Merrill Swain · Applied Linguistics | 1980 | 5,011 |
| 3 | The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1 R. W. SCHMIDT · Applied Linguistics | Jun 1990 | 4,905 |
| 4 | The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition Zoltán Dörnyei | 29 Jun 2005 | 4,119 |
| 5 | A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning Paula Samper García, Peter Skehan · TESOL Quarterly | 1999 | 3,524 |
| 6 | Social Identity, Investment, and Language Learning Bonny Norton Peirce · TESOL Quarterly | 1995 | 2,880 |
| 7 | TASK-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING Alison Mackey · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Sep 2004 | 2,871 |
| 8 | Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education Nelson Flores, Jonathan Rosa · Harvard Educational Review | Jun 2015 | 2,780 |
| 9 | Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language Jacqueline S. Johnson, Elissa L. Newport · Cognitive Psychology | 1989 | 2,743 |
| 10 | Teacher cognition in language teaching: A review of research on what language teachers think, know, believe, and do Simon Borg · Language Teaching | Apr 2003 | 2,542 |
| 11 | The Child's Learning of English Morphology Jean Berko · WORD | Aug 1958 | 2,504 |
| 12 | Effectiveness of L2 Instruction: A Research Synthesis and Quantitative Meta‐analysis John M. Norris, Lourdes Fernández de Ortega · Language Learning | Sep 2000 | 2,416 |
| 13 | Understanding teacher identity: an overview of issues in the literature and implications for teacher education Catherine Beauchamp, Lynn L. Thomas · Cambridge Journal of Education | 27 May 2009 | 2,384 |
| 14 | CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LEARNER UPTAKE Roy Lyster, Leila Ranta · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Mar 1997 | 2,260 |
| 15 | FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING Nick C. Ellis · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Jun 2002 | 2,229 |
| 16 | Translanguaging in the Bilingual Classroom: A Pedagogy for Learning and Teaching? Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge · Modern Language Journal | 3 Feb 2010 | 2,195 |
| 17 | CULTURAL THOUGHT PATTERNS IN INTER‐CULTURAL EDUCATION Robert B. Kaplan · Language Learning | 1966 | 2,076 |
| 18 | Conceptualizing Willingness to Communicate in a L2: A Situational Model of L2 Confidence and Affiliation Peter D. MacIntyre, RICHARD CLÉMENT, Zoltán Dörnyei et al. · Modern Language Journal | Dec 1998 | 2,058 |
| 19 | Second language research : Methodology and Design Alison Mackey, Susan M. Gass | 2005 | 1,921 |
| 20 | Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom Zoltán Dörnyei · Modern Language Journal | Sep 1994 | 1,848 |
| 21 | Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain Li Wei · Journal of Pragmatics | 23 Sep 2010 | 1,848 |
| 22 | Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change Yoon-kyung Yim, Bonny Norton · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 1,824 |
| 23 | Context and culture in language teaching Rob Gibson · System | Aug 1995 | 1,786 |
| 24 | Second Language Teaching and Learning Ling Shi, David Nunan · TESOL Quarterly | 2000 | 1,764 |
| 25 | Motivational variables in second-language acquisition. R. C. Gardner, Wallace E. Lambert · Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie | 1959 | 1,752 |
| 26 | The Case Against Grammar Correction in L2 Writing Classes John Truscott · Language Learning | Jun 1996 | 1,748 |
| 27 | Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching Leo A. W. van Lier, Diane Larsen‐Freeman · TESOL Quarterly | Mar 1987 | 1,745 |
| 28 | Teaching and learning vocabulary Paul Nation · System | May 1994 | 1,741 |
| 29 | On Discourse, Communication, and (Some) Fundamental Concepts in SLA Research Alan Firth, Johannes Wagner · Modern Language Journal | Sep 1997 | 1,724 |
| 30 | The two faces of Janus? Anxiety and enjoyment in the foreign language classroom Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Peter D. MacIntyre · Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching | 2014 | 1,710 |
| 31 | Interaction and Second Language Learning: Two Adolescent French Immersion Students Working Together Merrill Swain, Sharon Lapkin · Modern Language Journal | Sep 1998 | 1,584 |
| 32 | Going beyond the Native Speaker in Language Teaching Vivian Cook · TESOL Quarterly | 1999 | 1,582 |
| 33 | Language anxiety and achievement Elaine K. Horwitz · Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | 2001 | 1,557 |
| 34 | A Framework for the Implementation of Task-based Instruction Peter Skehan · Applied Linguistics | Mar 1996 | 1,547 |
| 35 | The Subtle Effects of Language Anxiety on Cognitive Processing in the Second Language Peter D. MacIntyre, R. C. Gardner · Language Learning | Jun 1994 | 1,507 |
| 36 | Language, Identity, and the Ownership of English Bonny Norton · TESOL Quarterly | 1997 | 1,487 |
| 37 | Codemeshing in Academic Writing: Identifying Teachable Strategies of Translanguaging Suresh Canagarajah · Modern Language Journal | Sep 2011 | 1,468 |
| 38 | Vocabulary in Language Teaching Laura L. Meyer, Norbert Schmitt · TESOL Quarterly | 2002 | 1,446 |
| 39 | THE ROBUSTNESS OF CRITICAL PERIOD EFFECTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION ROBERT M. DEKEYSER · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Dec 2000 | 1,436 |
| 40 | Understanding English as a Lingua Franca Cem Alptekin · ELT Journal | 13 Mar 2012 | 1,427 |
| 41 | Teaching and Researching Motivation Vera Busse · System | 9 May 2011 | 1,415 |
| 42 | Classroom discourse. The language of teaching and learning Wolfgang Lörscher · System | 1990 | 1,410 |
| 43 | Motivation in second and foreign language learning Zoltán Dörnyei · Language Teaching | Jul 1998 | 1,393 |
| 44 | Problems in Output and the Cognitive Processes They Generate: A Step Towards Second Language Learning Merrill Swain, Sharon Lapkin · Applied Linguistics | Sep 1995 | 1,388 |
| 45 | Language and communication George Armitage Miller · David Fulton Publishers eBooks | 15 Apr 2013 | 1,373 |
| 46 | Research Methods in Language Learning Zhihui Fang, David Nunan · TESOL Quarterly | 1994 | 1,360 |
| 47 | Native speaker/non-native speaker conversation and the negotiation of comprehensible input1 Michael H. Long · Applied Linguistics | Feb 1983 | 1,349 |
| 48 | SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS, MOTIVATION, AND ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Frank Pajares · Reading & Writing Quarterly | Apr 2003 | 1,334 |
| 49 | Motivation: Reopening the Research Agenda Graham V. Crookes, Richard Schmidt · Language Learning | Dec 1991 | 1,326 |
| 50 | ELAN: a Professional Framework for Multimodality Research Peter Wittenburg, Hennie Brugman, Albert Russel et al. | May 2006 | 1,315 |
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