OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern Language Journal is 5. 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
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Notes from the Editor	64
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Transnational literacy experiences and chronotopic identity work: A duoethnography of returnee English language teachers in China	37
On the need of pluralism and common ground in SLA	35
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek	34
On the matter of matter in second language education: A “mixed” review of current research	30
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom	29
Developing L2 semantic knowledge of English modality through concept‐based language instruction: Do cognitive linguistics materials have an advantage?	27
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency	26
Research–Practice Partnerships: Shaping Next‐Generation Language Learning Research	25
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 2	24
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Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States	24
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice	23
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Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context	22
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 110 (Supplement 2026)	21
Issue Information ‐ TOC	21
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	21
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	20
The demographic landscape of Spanish language teaching research: A cross‐national study	20
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions	20
Issue Information ‐ TOC	20
Advocating theoretical plurality and methodological flexibility toward humanistic synergy in SLA/T research: A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	19

Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools	19
Issue Information ‐ TOC	18
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom	18
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants	18
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	18
EDITORS’ NOTE	17
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	17
A nuclear families word list for French	16
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	16
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions	16
Trans ‐ing in education to confront polarizing forces in our increasingly interconnected world	16
Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning?	16
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study	16
Index to Volume 107, 2023	15
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education	15
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)	15
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages¹	15
Issue Information ‐ TOC	15
Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective	15
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant	15
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Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech	13
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning	13
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department	13
Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers	13
Issue Information ‐ TOC	12
Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness	12
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect	12
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms	12
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The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction	11
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	11
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	10
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices	10
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking	9
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice	9
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging	9
Issue Information ‐ TOC	9
THE ISSUE: Re‐envisioning language education for a multilingual world	8
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective	8
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom	8
Multilingual education in unequal contexts: Structural barriers to making all repertoires count in the global south	8
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue	8
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction	8
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)	7
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing	7
The effect of multimodal input on L2 learners' reading comprehension: A preregistered eye‐tracking study	7
Crisis talk: Absolutism versus pluralism is SLA studies. A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	6
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Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude	6
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class	6
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Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward	6
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria	6
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	6
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program	6
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users	5
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data	5
NFMLTA grant programs	5
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction	5
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary	5
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response	5
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education	5
Towards a tempo‐spatial model of multilingual identity development: An exploration of the role of time and space in multilingual identity construction	5
THE ISSUE	5
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword	5
Beyond crisis narratives: Synergy and incommensurability in SLA theory	5