OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern Language Journal is 6. 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
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Notes from the Editor	69
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Transnational literacy experiences and chronotopic identity work: A duoethnography of returnee English language teachers in China	44
On the need of pluralism and common ground in SLA	38
On the matter of matter in second language education: A “mixed” review of current research	36
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom	35
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency	34
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek	32
Developing L2 semantic knowledge of English modality through concept‐based language instruction: Do cognitive linguistics materials have an advantage?	29
Research–Practice Partnerships: Shaping Next‐Generation Language Learning Research	28
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 2	27
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Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States	25
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 110 (Supplement 2026)	24
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice	24
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context	24
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	23
Issue Information ‐ TOC	23
Advocating theoretical plurality and methodological flexibility toward humanistic synergy in SLA/T research: A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	22
Issue Information ‐ TOC	22
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools	22
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions	22
The demographic landscape of Spanish language teaching research: A cross‐national study	21

Toward Culturally Sustaining Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Linguistic, Cultural, and Racial Ideologies Across Earlier and Revised Editions	21
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom	21
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	21
A nuclear families word list for French	19
Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning?	19
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	19
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions	19
EDITORS’ NOTE	19
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study	19
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	18
Trans ‐ing in education to confront polarizing forces in our increasingly interconnected world	18
Issue Information ‐ TOC	17
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)	17
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education	16
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning	16
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant	16
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Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers	16
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages¹	16
Navigating Identity Tensions Through Perezhivanie: Language Teacher Metamotivation in Chinese Private Vocational Colleges	15
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department	15
Index to Volume 107, 2023	15
Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech	15
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction	14
Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness	14
Issue Information ‐ TOC	14
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms	14
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	13
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Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices	12
Issue Information ‐ TOC	12
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice	11
Issue Information ‐ TOC	11
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking	11
The effect of multimodal input on L2 learners' reading comprehension: A preregistered eye‐tracking study	10
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing	10
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom	10
Multilingual education in unequal contexts: Structural barriers to making all repertoires count in the global south	9
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction	9
THE ISSUE: Re‐envisioning language education for a multilingual world	9
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging	9
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective	9
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)	8
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class	8
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue	8
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria	7
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	7
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude	7

Crisis talk: Absolutism versus pluralism is SLA studies. A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	7
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data	7
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users	7
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program	7
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Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary	7
Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects	6
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response	6
Beyond crisis narratives: Synergy and incommensurability in SLA theory	6
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward	6
NFMLTA grant programs	6