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The Editor’s Choice articles are selected from papers published by authors who are featured on Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists list, which recognizes leading scholars in their respective fields based on the citation impact and considers both the past year and their entire careers. For 2024, 29 authors associated with our journal have been honored. In celebration of their achievements, our editors have curated 27 exceptional articles, co-authored by these award-winning scholars, for your reading. This accomplishment not only highlights their individual excellence, but also underscores the collaborative spirit that has driven our journal's success. It continues to inspire us to maintain the highest standards of quality in our publications.

1. “Measuring the Relationship between Bilingual Exposure and Social Attentional Preferences in Autistic Children”
by Rachael Davis, Hugh Rabagliati, Lewis Montgomery, Antonella Sorace and Sue Fletcher-Watson
Languages 2023, 8(1), 27; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010027
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/27

2. “How Good Does This Sound? Examining Listeners’ Second Language Proficiency and Their Perception of Category Goodness in Their Native Language”
by Charlie Nagle, Melissa M. Baese-Berk, Carissa Diantoro and Haeun Kim
Languages 2023, 8(1), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010043
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/43

3. “A Bibliometric Analysis of Peer Assessment in Online Language Courses”
by Yupeng Lin and Zhonggen Yu
Languages 2023, 8(1), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010047
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/47

4. “Syntactic Awareness and Reading Comprehension in Emergent Bilingual Children”
by Diana Burchell, Kathleen Hipfner-Boucher, S. Hélène Deacon, Poh Wee Koh and Xi Chen
Languages 2023, 8(1), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010062
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/62

5. “Sampling and Generalizability in Lx Research: A Second-Order Synthesis”
by Luke Plonsky
Languages 2023, 8(1), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010075
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/75

6. “Age, Experience and Language and Literacy Skills in English-Arabic Speaking Syrian Refugees”
by Alexandra Gottardo, Redab Al-Janaideh, Johanne Paradis, Adriana Soto-Corominas, Xi Chen and Norah Amin
Languages 2023, 8(2), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020101
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/101

7. “How Do Foreign Language Learners Process L2 Emotion Words in Silent Reading? An Eye-Tracking Study”
by Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs, Suhad Sonbul and Jeanette Altarriba
Languages 2023, 8(2), 125; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020125
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/125

8. “Standardization of the Gender Assignment and Agreement Assessment in the Greek Language: Preliminary Evidence from Bilingual Greek—Albanian School Age Children”
by Alexandra Prentza, Maria Kaltsa, Dionysios Tafiadis and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
Languages 2023, 8(2), 136; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020136
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/136

9. “Beyond Teaching Languages for Communication—Humanistic Perspectives and Practices”
by Michael Byram, Melina Porto and Leticia Yulita
Languages 2023, 8(3), 166; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030166
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/166

10. “Culturally Specific Messaging and the Explanation of Contact in Impacted Bilinguals”
by Ricardo Otheguy
Languages 2023, 8(3), 185; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030185
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/185

11. “Embracing the Disrupted Language Teaching and Learning Field: Analyzing YouTube Content Creation Related to ChatGPT”
by Belle Li, Xiaojing Kou and Curtis J. Bonk
Languages 2023, 8(3), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030197
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/197

12. “I Don’t Think You like Me: Examining Metaperceptions of Interpersonal Liking in Second Language Academic Interaction”
by Pavel Trofimovich, Rachael Lindberg, Anamaria Bodea, Thao-Nguyen Nina Le, Chaoqun Zheng and Kim McDonough
Languages 2023, 8(3), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030200
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/200

13. “Investigating Adaptation to And-Coordination in English: An ERP Study”
by Edith Kaan
Languages 2023, 8(3), 207; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030207
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/207

14. “Singing Songs Facilitates L2 Pronunciation and Vocabulary Learning: A Study with Chinese Adolescent ESL Learners”
by Yuan Zhang, Florence Baills and Pilar Prieto
Languages 2023, 8(3), 219; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030219
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/219

15. “Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Facilitating Assessment of Writing Performance in Second Language Learning”
by Zilu Jiang, Zexin Xu, Zilong Pan, Jingwen He and Kui Xie
Languages 2023, 8(4), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040247
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/247

16. “The Impact of Non-Native Language Input on Bilingual Children’s Language Skills”
by Milijana Buac and Margarita Kaushanskay
Languages 2023, 8(4), 277; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040277
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/277

17. “The Role of Language Experience in the Acquisition of Spanish Gender Agreement: A Study with Nonce Nouns”
by Silvina Montrul, Sara Ann Mason and Andrew Armstrong
Languages 2024, 9(2), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9020045
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/45

18. “The Processing of Multiword Units by Learners of English: Evidence from Pause Placement in Writing Process Data”
by Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Languages 2024, 9(2), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9020051
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/51

19. “Monitoring Engagement in the Foreign Language Classroom: Learners’ Perspectives”
by Bradford J. Lee, Hayo Reinders and Euan Bonner
Languages 2024, 9(2), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9020053
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/53

20. “Acoustic Similarity Predicts Vowel Phoneme Detection in an Unfamiliar Regional Accent: Evidence from Monolinguals, Bilinguals and Second-Language Learners”
by Daniel Williams, Turgut Ağabeyoğlu, Adamantios Gafos and Paola Escudero
Languages 2024, 9(2), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9020062
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/62

21. “Utterance-Final Voice Quality in American English and Mexican Spanish Bilinguals”
by Claudia Duarte-Borquez, Maxine Van Doren and Marc Garellek
Languages 2024, 9(3), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030070
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/3/70

22. “The Role of Age Variables in Family Language Policy”
by Karen Rose, Sharon Armon-Lotem and Carmit Altman
Languages 2024, 9(4), 139; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9040139
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/4/139

23. “A Systematic Review of Eye-Tracking Technology in Second Language Research”
by Xin Hu and Vahid Aryadoust
Languages 2024, 9(4), 141; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9040141
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/4/141

24. “Re-Thinking the Principles of (Vocabulary) Learning and Their Applications”
by Paul Nation
Languages 2024, 9(5), 160; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050160
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/5/160

25. “Predictions of Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Native and Non-Native Languages: An Update of BLC Theory”
by Jan Hulstijn
Languages 2024, 9(5), 173; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050173
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/5/173

26. “The Effect of Manner of Articulation and Syllable Affiliation on Tongue Configuration for Catalan Stop–Liquid and Liquid–Stop Sequences: An Ultrasound Study”
by Daniel Recasens
Languages 2024, 9(7), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070233
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/7/233

27. “One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish Alive: Numerical Phrases in Child and Adult Heritage Russian”
by Natalia Meir and Maria Polinsky
Languages 2024, 9(8), 261; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9080261
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/8/261