OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Foreign Language Annals is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	51
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	32
Fall 2021	26
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	24
Editor's message	23
The landscape of American Sign Language education	18
Issue Information ‐ TOC	16
Issue Information ‐ TOC	14
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	14
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	14
The taquito hot seat: Socializing monolingual bias through error correction practices in a Portuguese language classroom	13
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	13
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	13
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	11
Meta‐analyses of anxiety, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and self‐efficacy in virtual reality‐assisted language education	10
Leadership matters: World language program leadership & teacher practices	10
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher education	10
The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can‐Dos	9
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ACTFL Chinese reading proficiency guidelines: Verifying the difficulty hierarchy	8
The importance of peer review	8
Teachers' perspectives on pedagogy in short‐term language study abroad	8
Revisiting attending to form during meaning comprehension in learning Spanish as an additional foreign language	8
Code choice and translanguaging in Spanish classroom tasks	8
Strategic planning for professional engagement	8

What does translanguaging look like in an English language classroom in a disadvantaged context? A case in a primary school with difficult circumstances in the Global South	8
Building connections	7
Impact of L2 learners' background factors on the perception of L1 Spanish speech	7
Factors affecting the quality of online learning in a task‐based college course	7
WE MUST TALK ABOUT BRUNO: Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations	7
Enacting culturally sustaining immersion pedagogy through SFL and translanguaging design	7
ERRATUM	7
L2 French students' conversations during interactive writing tasks and their interaction mindset	6
Learning to teach world language online during COVID‐19 pandemic: A phenomenographic study	6
Issue Information	6
An examination of the postgraduation benefits of earning a Seal of Biliteracy	6
EDITOR'S MESSAGE	6
Centering positionality in Foreign Language Annals: Toward reflexive praxis in research and publication	6
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Exploring the learning benefits of website‐delivered pragmatics instruction: The case of L2 Mandarin Chinese	5
Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use	5
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Reading and affect: University Spanish learners' perceptions of a reading program	5
Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers	5
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates: Secondary school academic and language achievement	5
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Explaining the penetrating role of technology in online foreign language learning achievement	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
Leveraging the AAPPL to promote positive washback in K‐12 language teaching	4
The effect of the conceptual metaphor theory on the teaching of orientation idioms in teaching Turkish as a foreign language	4
Envisioning a successful professional self through a negotiation‐themed advanced Chinese course	4
President's message	4
The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean	4
Analytic visual word recognition among Chinese L2 learners	4
Can Spanish programs evaluate oral proficiency gains for all learners? An empirical analysis of traditional and nontraditional Spanish majors' oral proficiency development	4
What makes video‐based academic lectures difficult for language learners to comprehend? The role of multimodal complexity	4
Imagining Black futures in world language education	4
The effect of NNS–NNS and NNS–NS videoconferencing on the development of second language confidence	3
Investigating L2 writers' uses of machine translation and other online tools	3
Deconstructing the myth of Standard German: Navigating language ideologies in the L2 German university classroom	3
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Editor's message	3
The use of cohesive devices as proficiency level discriminators in Chinese DLI learners' writing	3
Exploring the connection between language use and oral performance during study abroad: Results from the Daily Language Questionnaire 2	3
Can the Oral Proficiency Interview ‐ Computer (ACTFL OPIc) be used instead of the Oral Proficiency Interview (ACTFL OPI)? An aligned rank transform (ART) analysis	3
Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges	3
The other side of heritage language education: Understanding Spanish heritage language teachers in the United States	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Receptive vocabulary knowledge in L2 learners of Spanish: The role of high‐frequency words	3
L2 discourse marker use in interaction: The case of pues in Spanish	3
Looks like google to me: Instructor ability to detect machine translation in L2 Spanish writing	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3

Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Engaging in transnational ways of teaching and building a community of practice: Preservice teachers’ experiences in an online after‐school program	3
Patching The Leaky Bucket: Understanding WL teacher identity‐agency and attrition	3
Effect of inserted adjunct questions on L2 reading with Chinese learners	3
Editor's message	3
Effects of benchmarking and peer‐assessment on French learners' self‐assessments of accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency	3
Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
The current state of undergraduate medical Spanish: Results of a national survey	2
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Co‐constructive feedback affordances in integrated performance assessment learner dyads	2
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	2
American sign language level 1 assessment: What is out there?	2
Motivating and demotivating factors for Chinese as a foreign language learners in a British CLIL program	2
Deconstructing the benefits of reading‐while‐listening on L2 reading comprehension: The influence of cross‐orthographic distance	2
The impact of questioning strategies on target language production and learner confidence	2
Effects of structural complexity and L1 experience on L2 acquisition of Chinese multiword sequences	2
How dual language bilingual education preservice teachers draw upon and develop students' sociocultural competence	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Effects of different forms of explicit instruction on L2 development: A meta‐analysis	2
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Literacy en français and à la française: Socializing students to academic literacy practices in a foreign language	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
L2 listening: An intervention study of instructional approaches	2
The creative abilities of preservice world language educators	2
Chinese bilingual preservice teachers' reflections on translanguaging pedagogy: The need for critical language curricularization	1
Relationship between written and spoken text recall in L2	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Evaluating the reading and listening outcomes of beginning‐level Duolingo courses	1
College‐level world language faculty background characteristics and their perceptions of online language teaching during the pandemic	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Different approaches, similar results: Preparing foreign language teachers to implement high‐leverage teaching practices	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
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Measuring preservice foreign language teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education through a newly developed scale	1
Prototypical words for core categories in French and English: Vocabulary as a window to culture	1
Second‐language writing in university‐level basic language programs: A survey of student and instructor beliefs	1
Diversity and inclusion of culturally and linguistically diverse students in K‐12 Chinese language education	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Attention to verbal morphology in L2 Arabic reading: An eye‐movement study	1
Proficiency development and smartphone usage in study abroad: Microgenetic longitudinal case studies of French learners	1
Recruitment and retention of world language teacher education majors: Perspectives of teacher candidates and alumni to remedy a global shortage	1
Editor's message	1
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From mock interviews to real job interviews: Assessing the efficacy of business Chinese instruction	1
Understanding L2 use in MMOGs: A linguistic framework of digital gaming	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Enhancing foreign language motivation through the magic of cooperative learning: Dream or reality?	1
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Directionality and developmental mechanism of cross‐linguistic transfer of phonological awareness to early writing skill in young Chinese learners	1
Who considers becoming a world language teacher? Comparing students who would with those who won't	1
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Discourses of foreign language development in study abroad: Social networks and other intervening factors	1
The Seal of Biliteracy as a recruitment tool in postsecondary language study	1
Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA): Implementation, task types, and feedback	1
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Supporting literacy development in two‐way immersion classrooms (Grades 3–5)	1
Editor's message	1
Assisted self‐assessment to optimize the OPIc test experience	1
The effect of providing feedback and feedforward in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills by interpreter trainees	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Cultural representation in German as a foreign language textbooks used in Indonesia: A critical social semiotic analysis	1
The Seal of Biliteracy: A 10‐year retrospective	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
The development of L2 interactional competence in Arabic: The case of multiple requests	1
Indicators of academic readiness for college: Evaluating an advanced Spanish language program	1
A case study: A technological insight on teaching translation	1