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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor's message	46
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	22
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	20
Issue Information ‐ TOC	18
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	15
The landscape of American Sign Language education	15
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	13
Trust, resistance, and transformation: A Q‐methodological study of teachers' perspectives on AI‐generated feedback in second language writing	13
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	13
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	12
Language teacher identity and social justice instructional practices: A history‐in‐person perspective	11
“More than lo visible ”: Black world language teachers' use of identity to contest culturelessness	11
Meta‐analyses of anxiety, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and self‐efficacy in virtual reality‐assisted language education	11
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	10
The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can‐Dos	10
Issue Information	10
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher education	10
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	10
Leadership matters: World language program leadership & teacher practices	9
Revisiting attending to form during meaning comprehension in learning Spanish as an additional foreign language	9
The importance of peer review	9
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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	8
DEEP framework: Transforming language learning with UN SDGs	8

Motivation for learning Chinese compared to European languages: An exploration in English secondary schools	8
Strategic planning for professional engagement	6
WE MUST TALK ABOUT BRUNO: Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations	6
Teachers' perspectives on pedagogy in short‐term language study abroad	6
Framing ASL education: Perspectives from postsecondary ASL professionals	6
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ACTFL Chinese reading proficiency guidelines: Verifying the difficulty hierarchy	6
Building connections	6
Issue Information	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
Explaining the penetrating role of technology in online foreign language learning achievement	5
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Centering positionality in Foreign Language Annals: Toward reflexive praxis in research and publication	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
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	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
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Proficiency‐based placement: Examining the validity of the APPT – Listening test	4
Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use	4
Leveraging the AAPPL to promote positive washback in K‐12 language teaching	4
Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers	4
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates: Secondary school academic and language achievement	4
President's message	4
Exploring critical AI literacy in language education: A case study	4
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
Envisioning a successful professional self through a negotiation‐themed advanced Chinese course	4
The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean	3
Perceptions of place‐based pedagogies in language education through the lens of K‐16 teachers	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Imagining Black futures in world language education	3
Can Spanish programs evaluate oral proficiency gains for all learners? An empirical analysis of traditional and nontraditional Spanish majors' oral proficiency development	3
Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level	3
Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges	3
Investigating L2 writers' uses of machine translation and other online tools	3
Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion	3
What makes video‐based academic lectures difficult for language learners to comprehend? The role of multimodal complexity	3
Orthography‐sound vs. orthography‐meaning mapping in Chinese character learning: Evidence on typing and handwriting	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
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Effect of inserted adjunct questions on L2 reading with Chinese learners	3
The effect of the conceptual metaphor theory on the teaching of orientation idioms in teaching Turkish as a foreign language	3
Patching The Leaky Bucket: Understanding WL teacher identity‐agency and attrition	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	2

Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Editor's message	2
The creative abilities of preservice world language educators	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Incorporation of ACTFL proficiency guidelines and OPI into a Chinese heritage language curriculum	2
L2 listening: An intervention study of instructional approaches	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
Editor's message	2
Looks like google to me: Instructor ability to detect machine translation in L2 Spanish writing	2
Novice Mandarin learners' transformative learning through critical virtual exchange: A multimodal, translanguaging design	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
The impact of questioning strategies on target language production and learner confidence	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
The evolving profession	2
Effects of different forms of explicit instruction on L2 development: A meta‐analysis	2
Deconstructing the benefits of reading‐while‐listening on L2 reading comprehension: The influence of cross‐orthographic distance	2
Co‐constructive feedback affordances in integrated performance assessment learner dyads	2
The use of cohesive devices as proficiency level discriminators in Chinese DLI learners' writing	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 ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Motivating and demotivating factors for Chinese as a foreign language learners in a British CLIL program	2
American sign language level 1 assessment: What is out there?	2
The current state of undergraduate medical Spanish: Results of a national survey	2
AI literacy: A core practice in world language education	2
Understanding L2 use in MMOGs: A linguistic framework of digital gaming	1
Assisted self‐assessment to optimize the OPIc test experience	1
High‐leverage practices in action: WL teachers' self‐reported use of HLTPs in the K‐12 classroom	1
Diversity and inclusion of culturally and linguistically diverse students in K‐12 Chinese language education	1
Measuring preservice foreign language teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education through a newly developed scale	1
Who considers becoming a world language teacher? Comparing students who would with those who won't	1
Considering students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes in the teaching of Swedish	1
A case study: A technological insight on teaching translation	1
The Seal of Biliteracy as a recruitment tool in postsecondary language study	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
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L2 motivation, anxiety, and intended effort among learners of African languages in the United States	1
Relationship between written and spoken text recall in L2	1
The effect of providing feedback and feedforward in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills by interpreter trainees	1
Different approaches, similar results: Preparing foreign language teachers to implement high‐leverage teaching practices	1
From mock interviews to real job interviews: Assessing the efficacy of business Chinese instruction	1
Indicators of academic readiness for college: Evaluating an advanced Spanish language program	1
Cultural representation in German as a foreign language textbooks used in Indonesia: A critical social semiotic analysis	1
Directionality and developmental mechanism of cross‐linguistic transfer of phonological awareness to early writing skill in young Chinese learners	1
2025 Dedicated Issue: Sustaining and expanding language education opportunities	1
The Chinese corner as an ecological space for multilingual identity development	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Attention to verbal morphology in L2 Arabic reading: An eye‐movement study	1
Chinese bilingual preservice teachers' reflections on translanguaging pedagogy: The need for critical language curricularization	1
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Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA): Implementation, task types, and feedback	1
Editor's message	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
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The politics of language enrollment in US higher 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
Comparing L2 intelligibility for learners of French: Automatic speech recognition versus human listeners	1
Supporting literacy development in two‐way immersion classrooms (Grades 3–5)	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	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