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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	21
Editor's message	21
Issue Information ‐ TOC	19
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	19
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	18
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	14
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	13
Language teacher identity and social justice instructional practices: A history‐in‐person perspective	12
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	12
The landscape of American Sign Language education	12
“More than lo visible ”: Black world language teachers' use of identity to contest culturelessness	12
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	11
Issue Information	11
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	11
Trust, resistance, and transformation: A Q‐methodological study of teachers' perspectives on AI‐generated feedback in second language writing	11
Literary performance in Chinese as a foreign language: A multivariate study of dispositions, strategies, and motivation	10
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher education	10
Meta‐analyses of anxiety, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and self‐efficacy in virtual reality‐assisted language education	10
The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can‐Dos	9
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The importance of peer review	8
Framing ASL education: Perspectives from postsecondary ASL professionals	8
Leadership matters: World language program leadership & teacher practices	8
Motivation for learning Chinese compared to European languages: An exploration in English secondary schools	8
DEEP framework: Transforming language learning with UN SDGs	8

Revisiting attending to form during meaning comprehension in learning Spanish as an additional foreign language	7
Code choice and translanguaging in Spanish classroom tasks	7
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	6
Strategic planning for professional engagement	6
Issue Information	5
ACTFL Chinese reading proficiency guidelines: Verifying the difficulty hierarchy	5
An examination of the postgraduation benefits of earning a Seal of Biliteracy	5
Foreign Language Annals forthcoming policy on the use of GenAI	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Teachers' perspectives on pedagogy in short‐term language study abroad	5
WE MUST TALK ABOUT BRUNO: Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations	5
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‘I am so lost’: Negotiating positions through conversation in mixed HLL/L2L classrooms	5
Learning to teach world language online during COVID‐19 pandemic: A phenomenographic study	5
Building connections	5
Exploring general language ability development through monitored extensive reading, extensive listening, and audio‐assisted extensive reading	5
Centering positionality in Foreign Language Annals: Toward reflexive praxis in research and publication	5
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Explaining the penetrating role of technology in online foreign language learning achievement	4
Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use	4
Reading and affect: University Spanish learners' perceptions of a reading program	4
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers	4
Exploring the learning benefits of website‐delivered pragmatics instruction: The case of L2 Mandarin Chinese	4
Proficiency‐based placement: Examining the validity of the APPT – Listening test	4
Issue Information ‐ TOC	4
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Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	3
Imagining Black futures in world language education	3
The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean	3
Orthography‐sound vs. orthography‐meaning mapping in Chinese character learning: Evidence on typing and handwriting	3
Engaging in transnational ways of teaching and building a community of practice: Preservice teachers’ experiences in an online after‐school program	3
Novice Mandarin learners' transformative learning through critical virtual exchange: A multimodal, translanguaging design	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Leveraging the AAPPL to promote positive washback in K‐12 language teaching	3
What makes video‐based academic lectures difficult for language learners to comprehend? The role of multimodal complexity	3
Las voces de Baha‐blantes : An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level	3
Investigating L2 writers' uses of machine translation and other online tools	3
Perceptions of place‐based pedagogies in language education through the lens of K‐16 teachers	3
Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion	3
Patching The Leaky Bucket: Understanding WL teacher identity‐agency and attrition	3
Exploring critical AI literacy in language education: A case study	3
President's message	3
Deconstructing the myth of Standard German: Navigating language ideologies in the L2 German university classroom	3
Envisioning a successful professional self through a negotiation‐themed advanced Chinese course	3
Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges	3
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Effects of different forms of explicit instruction on L2 development: A meta‐analysis	2
Incorporation of ACTFL proficiency guidelines and OPI into a Chinese heritage language curriculum	2

The creative abilities of preservice world language educators	2
L2 discourse marker use in interaction: The case of pues in Spanish	2
How dual language bilingual education preservice teachers draw upon and develop students' sociocultural competence	2
Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners	2
Can the Oral Proficiency Interview ‐ Computer (ACTFL OPIc) be used instead of the Oral Proficiency Interview (ACTFL OPI)? An aligned rank transform (ART) analysis	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
From mock interviews to real job interviews: Assessing the efficacy of business Chinese instruction	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
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The impact of questioning strategies on target language production and learner confidence	2
American sign language level 1 assessment: What is out there?	2
AI literacy: A core practice in world language education	2
The use of cohesive devices as proficiency level discriminators in Chinese DLI learners' writing	2
Linking (imagined) communities: World language students' stereotypical attributions to native speakers and teachers of German	2
Editor's message	2
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	2
Effects of structural complexity and L1 experience on L2 acquisition of Chinese multiword sequences	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Motivating and demotivating factors for Chinese as a foreign language learners in a British CLIL program	2
The evolving profession	2
Deconstructing the benefits of reading‐while‐listening on L2 reading comprehension: The influence of cross‐orthographic distance	2
Exploring student engagement with ChatGPT feedback: A classroom study of JFL learners	2
Co‐constructive feedback affordances in integrated performance assessment learner dyads	2
Beyond study abroad: Korean English as a foreign language learners who choose to stay	2
Looks like google to me: Instructor ability to detect machine translation in L2 Spanish writing	2
Editor's message	2
The current state of undergraduate medical Spanish: Results of a national survey	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Process drama and foreign language learning: A case study of preservice teachers learning French	1
The Seal of Biliteracy as a recruitment tool in postsecondary language study	1
Addressing the vocabulary learning burden in L2 French: Factors guiding vocabulary selection in French textbooks	1
Cultural representation in German as a foreign language textbooks used in Indonesia: A critical social semiotic analysis	1
2025 Dedicated Issue: Sustaining and expanding language education opportunities	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Student perceptions of asynchronous learning in college language classes: Results of a university‐wide transformation of instructional practices	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
The effect of providing feedback and feedforward in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills by interpreter trainees	1
Assisted self‐assessment to optimize the OPIc test experience	1
Attention to verbal morphology in L2 Arabic reading: An eye‐movement study	1
Prototypical words for core categories in French and English: Vocabulary as a window to culture	1
Generative AI for learning languages other than English: L2 writers' current uses and perceptions of ethics	1
I am my language: Roots, rhythm, and resistance	1
Elevating world language teacher leaders: Participant perspectives of the Leadership Initiative for Language Learning (LILL)	1
Editor's message	1
High‐leverage practices in action: WL teachers' self‐reported use of HLTPs in the K‐12 classroom	1
The politics of language enrollment in US higher education	1
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Who considers becoming a world language teacher? Comparing students who would with those who won't	1
Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA): Implementation, task types, and feedback	1
Indicators of academic readiness for college: Evaluating an advanced Spanish language program	1
Understanding L2 use in MMOGs: A linguistic framework of digital gaming	1
The Chinese corner as an ecological space for multilingual identity development	1
Directionality and developmental mechanism of cross‐linguistic transfer of phonological awareness to early writing skill in young Chinese learners	1
A survey of American paired teachers in dual language Chinese immersion programs	1
The relationship between proficiency‐based instruction and student oral proficiency	1
Pedagogical translation for reading comprehension in mixed HL‐L2 secondary classrooms	1
L2 motivation, anxiety, and intended effort among learners of African languages in the United States	1
Preservice Spanish teachers analyze a nonexemplary lesson: Critical reflection in teacher preparation	1
Considering students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes in the teaching of Swedish	1
Measuring preservice foreign language teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education through a newly developed scale	1
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Comparing L2 intelligibility for learners of French: Automatic speech recognition versus human listeners	1
Different approaches, similar results: Preparing foreign language teachers to implement high‐leverage teaching practices	1
Chronicling emotional trajectories in early‐career language teaching: A longitudinal intensive single‐case Q methodology study	1
College‐level world language faculty background characteristics and their perceptions of online language teaching during the pandemic	1
Chinese bilingual preservice teachers' reflections on translanguaging pedagogy: The need for critical language curricularization	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Issue Information	1
The design and evaluation of an interactive AI companion for foreign language writing	1