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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor's message	48
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	23
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	21
Issue Information ‐ TOC	19
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	17
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	15
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	15
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	13
Trust, resistance, and transformation: A Q‐methodological study of teachers' perspectives on AI‐generated feedback in second language writing	13
Language teacher identity and social justice instructional practices: A history‐in‐person perspective	12
“More than lo visible ”: Black world language teachers' use of identity to contest culturelessness	12
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	11
The landscape of American Sign Language education	11
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	11
Issue Information	11
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The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can‐Dos	10
Meta‐analyses of anxiety, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and self‐efficacy in virtual reality‐assisted language education	10
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher education	10
Leadership matters: World language program leadership & teacher practices	9
DEEP framework: Transforming language learning with UN SDGs	9
The importance of peer review	9
Motivation for learning Chinese compared to European languages: An exploration in English secondary schools	8
Code choice and translanguaging in Spanish classroom tasks	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	7

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

Editor's message	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
L2 discourse marker use in interaction: The case of pues in Spanish	2
Motivating and demotivating factors for Chinese as a foreign language learners in a British CLIL program	2
Looks like google to me: Instructor ability to detect machine translation in L2 Spanish writing	2
The evolving profession	2
The current state of undergraduate medical Spanish: Results of a national survey	2
Novice Mandarin learners' transformative learning through critical virtual exchange: A multimodal, translanguaging design	2
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	2
AI literacy: A core practice in world language education	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Editor's message	2
Effects of structural complexity and L1 experience on L2 acquisition of Chinese multiword sequences	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
American sign language level 1 assessment: What is out there?	2
The impact of questioning strategies on target language production and learner confidence	2
How dual language bilingual education preservice teachers draw upon and develop students' sociocultural competence	2
Effects of different forms of explicit instruction on L2 development: A meta‐analysis	2
Co‐constructive feedback affordances in integrated performance assessment learner dyads	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
The use of cohesive devices as proficiency level discriminators in Chinese DLI learners' writing	2
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The effect of providing feedback and feedforward in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills by interpreter trainees	1
Cultural representation in German as a foreign language textbooks used in Indonesia: A critical social semiotic analysis	1
I am my language: Roots, rhythm, and resistance	1
Who considers becoming a world language teacher? Comparing students who would with those who won't	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Considering students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes in the teaching of Swedish	1
Editor's message	1
Chinese bilingual preservice teachers' reflections on translanguaging pedagogy: The need for critical language curricularization	1
Diversity and inclusion of culturally and linguistically diverse students in K‐12 Chinese language education	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Prototypical words for core categories in French and English: Vocabulary as a window to culture	1
Different approaches, similar results: Preparing foreign language teachers to implement high‐leverage teaching practices	1
College‐level world language faculty background characteristics and their perceptions of online language teaching during the pandemic	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Relationship between written and spoken text recall in L2	1
The relationship between proficiency‐based instruction and student oral proficiency	1
2025 Dedicated Issue: Sustaining and expanding language education opportunities	1
Measuring preservice foreign language teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education through a newly developed scale	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
A case study: A technological insight on teaching translation	1
The Seal of Biliteracy as a recruitment tool in postsecondary language study	1
L2 motivation, anxiety, and intended effort among learners of African languages in the United States	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Indicators of academic readiness for college: Evaluating an advanced Spanish language program	1
Chronicling emotional trajectories in early‐career language teaching: A longitudinal intensive single‐case Q methodology study	1
From mock interviews to real job interviews: Assessing the efficacy of business Chinese instruction	1
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Comparing L2 intelligibility for learners of French: Automatic speech recognition versus human listeners	1
Addressing the vocabulary learning burden in L2 French: Factors guiding vocabulary selection in French textbooks	1
Directionality and developmental mechanism of cross‐linguistic transfer of phonological awareness to early writing skill in young Chinese learners	1
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Editor's message	1
The Chinese corner as an ecological space for multilingual identity development	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Attention to verbal morphology in L2 Arabic reading: An eye‐movement study	1
Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA): Implementation, task types, and feedback	1
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Assisted self‐assessment to optimize the OPIc test experience	1
Understanding L2 use in MMOGs: A linguistic framework of digital gaming	1