Letty Chan

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 667 citations indexed

About

Letty Chan is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Letty Chan has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 667 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 3 papers in Language and Linguistics and 2 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Letty Chan's work include EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (1 paper). Letty Chan is often cited by papers focused on EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (1 paper). Letty Chan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Letty Chan's co-authors include Zoltán Dörnyei and Michael Magid and has published in prestigious journals such as Language Learning, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching and Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching.

In The Last Decade

Letty Chan

5 papers receiving 623 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Motivation and Vision: An Analysis of Future L2 Self Images, Sensory Styles, and Imagery Capacity Across Two Target Languages

2013 322 citations Zoltán Dörnyei, Letty Chan Language Learning profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Letty Chan United Kingdom	3	310	212	173	167	144	5	667
Pascal Gygax Switzerland	21	443 1.4×	188 0.9×	296 1.7×	338 2.0×	120 0.8×	86	1.4k
Kaiqi Shao China	9	263 0.8×	90 0.4×	177 1.0×	187 1.1×	408 2.8×	12	702
W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin Japan	13	303 1.0×	133 0.6×	231 1.3×	294 1.8×	405 2.8×	30	897
Cees M. Koolstra Netherlands	14	271 0.9×	135 0.6×	106 0.6×	131 0.8×	76 0.5×	23	831
Yasser Teimouri United States	10	636 2.1×	309 1.5×	272 1.6×	347 2.1×	610 4.2×	19	1.3k
Nourollah Zarrinabadi Iran	19	529 1.7×	275 1.3×	207 1.2×	268 1.6×	385 2.7×	55	1.0k
Livia Dewaele United Kingdom	6	705 2.3×	321 1.5×	194 1.1×	264 1.6×	579 4.0×	12	1.2k
S. Yahya Hejazi Iran	14	192 0.6×	81 0.4×	140 0.8×	161 1.0×	415 2.9×	27	730
Bert H. Hodges United States	16	154 0.5×	50 0.2×	260 1.5×	164 1.0×	265 1.8×	36	785
Azar Hosseini Fatemi Iran	13	264 0.9×	145 0.7×	71 0.4×	157 0.9×	202 1.4×	56	611

Countries citing papers authored by Letty Chan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Letty Chan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Letty Chan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Letty Chan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Letty Chan. Letty Chan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Chan, Letty. (2013). Handbook of imagination and mental simulation. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 8(1). 94–98. 257 indexed citations

2.

Chan, Letty. (2013). Facets of imagery in academic and professional achievements: A study of three doctoral students. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching. 3(3). 397–397. 1 indexed citations

3.

Dörnyei, Zoltán & Letty Chan. (2013). Motivation and Vision: An Analysis of Future L2 Self Images, Sensory Styles, and Imagery Capacity Across Two Target Languages. Language Learning. 63(3). 437–462. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chan, Letty, et al.. (2012). Academic English: Skills for Success. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

5.

Magid, Michael & Letty Chan. (2011). Motivating English learners by helping them visualise their Ideal L2 Self: lessons from two motivational programmes. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 6(2). 113–125. 86 indexed citations

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