Yasser Teimouri

1.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yasser Teimouri is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasser Teimouri has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Language and Linguistics, 8 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Yasser Teimouri's work include EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 papers), Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (5 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 papers). Yasser Teimouri is often cited by papers focused on EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 papers), Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (5 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 papers). Yasser Teimouri collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Iran. Yasser Teimouri's co-authors include Luke Plonsky, Julia Goetze, Mostafa Papi, Ekaterina Sudina, Alan V. Brown, Jenefer Philp, Alison Mackey, Margaret E. Malone and Mehdi Solhi and has published in prestigious journals such as Modern Language Journal, Language Learning and System.

In The Last Decade

Yasser Teimouri

15 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

SECOND LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND ACHIEVEMENT

2019 347 citations Yasser Teimouri, Julia Goetze et al. Studies in Second Language Acquisition profile →
L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning

2020 297 citations Yasser Teimouri, Luke Plonsky et al. Language Teaching Research profile →
L2 SELVES, EMOTIONS, AND MOTIVATED BEHAVIORS

2016 225 citations Yasser Teimouri Studies in Second Language Acquisition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yasser Teimouri United States	10	636	610	347	309	272	19	1.3k
Majid Elahi Shirvan Iran	24	658 1.0×	797 1.3×	395 1.1×	287 0.9×	298 1.1×	81	1.6k
Elouise Botes Luxembourg	17	530 0.8×	575 0.9×	253 0.7×	183 0.6×	243 0.9×	38	1.2k
Livia Dewaele United Kingdom	6	705 1.1×	579 0.9×	264 0.8×	321 1.0×	194 0.7×	12	1.2k
Nourollah Zarrinabadi Iran	19	529 0.8×	385 0.6×	268 0.8×	275 0.9×	207 0.8×	55	1.0k
Behzad Ghonsooly Iran	20	548 0.9×	490 0.8×	457 1.3×	285 0.9×	206 0.8×	131	1.5k
Honggang Liu China	21	330 0.5×	623 1.0×	354 1.0×	160 0.5×	180 0.7×	104	1.4k
Jian‐E Peng China	18	974 1.5×	404 0.7×	324 0.9×	647 2.1×	132 0.5×	38	1.5k
Jalil Fathi Iran	24	371 0.6×	846 1.4×	417 1.2×	140 0.5×	241 0.9×	64	1.8k
W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin Japan	13	303 0.5×	405 0.7×	294 0.8×	133 0.4×	231 0.8×	30	897
Guiying Jiang China	7	318 0.5×	437 0.7×	144 0.4×	107 0.3×	153 0.6×	20	766

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19 of 19 papers shown

Sudina, Ekaterina, Yasser Teimouri, & Luke Plonsky. (2025). L2 grit and age as predictors of attrition in mobile-assisted language learning. Learning and Individual Differences. 120. 102704–102704.

Teimouri, Yasser, Ekaterina Sudina, & Luke Plonsky. (2025). Individual differences in language learning and teaching: Growing pains at the theory-methods interface. Learning and Individual Differences. 124. 102786–102786.

Solhi, Mehdi, et al.. (2025). Examining the characteristics of gritty L2 learners: a Q methodology study. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 1–22.

Papi, Mostafa & Yasser Teimouri. (2024). Manufactured crisis. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 47(4). 1096–1107. 5 indexed citations

Teimouri, Yasser, et al.. (2024). The interplay of mindsets, aptitude, grit, and language achievement: What role does gender play?. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 46(3). 869–892. 5 indexed citations

Plonsky, Luke, Ekaterina Sudina, & Yasser Teimouri. (2022). Language learning and emotion. Language Teaching. 55(3). 346–362. 36 indexed citations

Teimouri, Yasser, et al.. (2022). The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning. Modern Language Journal. 106(4). 764–783. 16 indexed citations

Teimouri, Yasser, Ekaterina Sudina, & Luke Plonsky. (2021). On Domain-Specific Conceptualization and Measurement of Grit in L2 Learning. 3(2). 156–164. 45 indexed citations

Teimouri, Yasser, et al.. (2021). INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN HOW LANGUAGE LEARNERS PURSUE GOALS. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 44(3). 633–658. 7 indexed citations

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Teimouri, Yasser, et al.. (2021). The cagey C-test construct: Some evidence from a meta-analysis of correlation coefficients. System. 99. 102526–102526. 4 indexed citations

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Teimouri, Yasser, et al.. (2020). L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning. Language Teaching Research. 26(5). 893–918. 297 indexed citations breakdown →

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Teimouri, Yasser. (2019). Exploring the Links between Second Language Learners’ Proneness to Shame and Proneness to Guilt and their Language Learning Motivation and Achievement. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 1 indexed citations

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Teimouri, Yasser, Julia Goetze, & Luke Plonsky. (2019). SECOND LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND ACHIEVEMENT. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 41(2). 363–387. 347 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brown, Alan V., Luke Plonsky, & Yasser Teimouri. (2018). The use of course grades as metrics in L2 research: A systematic review. Foreign Language Annals. 51(4). 763–778. 34 indexed citations

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Teimouri, Yasser. (2018). Differential Roles of Shame and Guilt in L2 Learning: How Bad Is Bad?. Modern Language Journal. 102(4). 632–652. 103 indexed citations

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Teimouri, Yasser. (2016). L2 SELVES, EMOTIONS, AND MOTIVATED BEHAVIORS. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 39(4). 681–709. 225 indexed citations breakdown →

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Philp, Jenefer, Alison Mackey, & Yasser Teimouri. (2015). The relationships amongst working memory, cognitive creativity and second language production during communicative tasks. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 2 indexed citations

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Papi, Mostafa & Yasser Teimouri. (2014). Language Learner Motivational Types: A Cluster Analysis Study. Language Learning. 64(3). 493–525. 116 indexed citations

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Papi, Mostafa & Yasser Teimouri. (2012). Dynamics of selves and motivation: a cross‐sectional study in the EFL context of Iran. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 22(3). 287–309. 73 indexed citations

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