| Developing students’ awareness of Global Englishes F Fang, W Ren ELT journal 72 (4), 384-394, 2018 | 177 | 2018 |
| The representation of pragmatic knowledge in recent ELT textbooks W Ren, Z Han Elt Journal 70 (4), 424-434, 2016 | 159 | 2016 |
| A longitudinal investigation into L2 learners’ cognitive processes during study abroad W Ren Applied Linguistics 35 (5), 575-594, 2014 | 136 | 2014 |
| Profiling Chinese university students’ motivation to learn multiple languages Y Zheng, X Lu, W Ren Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (7), 590-604, 2019 | 114 | 2019 |
| Tracking the evolution of Chinese learners’ multilingual motivation through a longitudinal Q methodology Y Zheng, X Lu, W Ren The Modern Language Journal 104 (4), 781-803, 2020 | 103 | 2020 |
| Compliments in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese: The influence of region and compliment topic CY Lin, H Woodfield, W Ren Journal of Pragmatics 44 (11), 1486-1502, 2012 | 98 | 2012 |
| Pragmatic development of Chinese during study abroad: A cross-sectional study of learner requests W Ren Journal of Pragmatics 146, 137-149, 2019 | 89 | 2019 |
| University students' perceptions of ELF in mainland China and Taiwan W Ren, YS Chen, CY Lin System 56, 13-27, 2016 | 86 | 2016 |
| L2 pragmatic development in study abroad contexts W Ren (No Title), 2015 | 76 | 2015 |
| The effect of study abroad on the pragmatic development of the internal modification of refusals W Ren Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics …, 2013 | 75 | 2013 |
| Controversies of bilingual education in China X Gao, W Ren International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (3), 267-273, 2019 | 74 | 2019 |
| Self-praise on Chinese social networking sites W Ren, Y Guo Journal of Pragmatics 169, 179-189, 2020 | 69 | 2020 |
| The effects of online feedback on ESL/EFL writing: A meta-analysis X Lv, W Ren, Y Xie The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher 30 (6), 643-653, 2021 | 67 | 2021 |
| Digital multimodal composing in L2 learning: Ideologies and impact L Jiang, W Ren Journal of Language, Identity & Education 20 (3), 167-182, 2021 | 63 | 2021 |
| Developing L2 pragmatic competence in Mandarin Chinese: Sequential realization of requests Y Su, W Ren Foreign Language Annals 50 (2), 433-457, 2017 | 56 | 2017 |
| Mitigation in Chinese online consumer reviews W Ren Discourse, Context & Media 26, 5-12, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
| Tracking the trajectories of international students’ pragmatic choices in studying abroad in China: A social network perspective C Li, W Li, W Ren Language, Culture and Curriculum 34 (4), 398-416, 2021 | 47 | 2021 |
| Chinese females׳ date refusals in reality TV shows: Expressing involvement or independence? W Ren, H Woodfield Discourse, Context & Media 13, 89-97, 2016 | 46 | 2016 |
| Developing L2 pragmatic competence in study abroad contexts W Ren The Routledge handbook of study abroad research and practice, 119-133, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| Second language pragmatics W Ren Elements in Applied Linguistics, 2022 | 44 | 2022 |
