OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A Call for Methodological Reflexivity in Researching Language Testing and Migration	100
Transformative Pedagogies for English Teaching: Teachers and Students Building Social Justice Together	77
The Minority Language as a Second Language: Challenges and Achievements	50
The Effects of CLIL and Sources of Individual Differences on Receptive and Productive EFL Skills at the Onset of Primary School	42
Metapragmatic Knowledge and Transfer of Learning across Speech Acts	39
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time	37
Effects of Classroom Instruction on the Development of L2 Interactional Resource for Joint Stance Taking: Use of Japanese Interactional ParticleYoin Spontaneous Peer Conversation	36
COVID-19 Online Medical Consultation: Understanding the Affective Practice	36
Vera Sotirovska and Margaret Vaughn: Enhancing Educators’ Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Critical Literacy	33
Revisiting US Undergraduate Perceptions of Non-native English Varieties: From Millennials to Generation Z	30
Translingual Practices: Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver, and Li Wei	29
“Becoming a Linguist: Advice from Key Thinkers in Language Studies”	27
Suresh Canagarajah: LANGUAGE INCOMPETENCE: LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE THROUGH CANCER, DISABILITY, AND ANOMALOUS EMBODIMENT	25
Notes On Contributors	25
Research Engagement and Research Culture in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT): Empowering the Profession	24
Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education	24
Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing	24
Translanguaging and Educational Inequality in the Global South: Stance-taking amongst Brazilian Teachers of English	22
Automatic Analysis of Constructional Diversity as a Predictor of EFL Students’ Writing Proficiency	20
Gig Economy Teaching: On the Importance and Dangers of Self-branding in Online Markets	20
Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging The Invention of Multilingualism	20
Open Access Academic Lectures as Sources for Incidental Vocabulary Learning: Examining the Role of Input Mode, Frequency, Type of Vocabulary, and Elaboration	20
Researching language at street level: In memory of Vivian Cook and review of The Language of the English Street Sign	19
#FleeingWuhan: Legitimation and Delegitimation Strategies in Hostile Online Discourse	18
Erratum to: Translanguaging Health	18

Corrigendum to: Beyond Differences: Assessing Effects of Shared Linguistic Features on L2 Writing Quality of Two Genres	17
Challenging Folk-Linguistics: Grammatical and Spelling Variation in Students’ Writing in Hebrew on WhatsApp and in Essays	16
Towards Clarification of the Second Language Learner Engagement Construct: Taking Stock of its Conceptual Overlap and Hierarchical Structure	15
Voice and Voicing Strategies Across Native and Second Language Writing: Extending the Interactional Metadiscourse Framework	15
Which Words Matter Most? Operationalizing Lexical Prevalence For Rank-Ordered Word Lists	14
Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	14
Language tester identity in policy contexts: A narrative analytical approach	14
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis	14
Language and Culture as Sources of Inequality in US Police Interrogations	14
What Makes an Ideal Partner? African Libraries and Neoliberal Discourses in International Development	14
Self-access Strategy Instruction for Academic Writing Vocabulary: What Learners Actually Do	13
The ‘Existential Fabric’ of War: Explaining the Phrase of War in the Laws of War	13
Variation in Metadiscourse across Speech and Writing: A Multidimensional Study	13
A semiotic study of small-detailed signs in North America vernacular landscape	12
Empowering Students Through the Construction of a Translanguaging Space in an English as a First Language Classroom	12
Choreographies of Multilingualism. Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore.	11
A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education: Peter I. De Costa and Özgehan Ustuk	11
Notes on Contributors	11
Erratum to: Lexical Access in L1 Attrition—Competition versus Frequency: A Comparison of Turkish and Moroccan Attriters in the Netherlands	11
British Conversation is Changing: Resonance and Engagement in the BNC1994 and the BNC2014	11
Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions	11
Gregory Hadley and Andrew Boon: Critical Thinking	10
Writing Trajectories of Grammatical Complexity at the University: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers in BAWE	10
Verb semantic cohesion in L2 production: a semantic network analysis of written and spoken modalities by Korean EFL learners	10
Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages in Old Adulthood? Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Intervention Study	10
Practice and Automatization in Second Language Research: Perspectives From Skill Acquisition Theory and Cognitive Psychology	10
The Relationship Between L2 Interactional Competence and Proficiency	10
Self-Regulated Learning and Knowledge Blindness: Bringing Language into View	10
English in China: Creativity and commodificationCapital, commodity, and English language teaching	9
“It’s very well written!”: Revisiting praise in teacher written feedback from the perspective of feedback literacy	9
Managing the Flow of Talk: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Multiword Expression det er sant in L2 Norwegian Interactions	9
Engaging with language play: practices of Korean English teachers in elementary classrooms	9
Generative AI and its dilemmas: exploring AI from a translanguaging perspective	9
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–2020	9
Jean Wong and Hansun Zhang Waring: Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers	8
Teachers Reflecting on Boredom in the Language Classroom: Mirosław Pawlak, Mariusz Kruk, and Joanna Zawodniak	8
Notes on Contributors	8
Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data	8
Two Sources of Miscommunication in Oncology Consultations: An Observational Study Using Conversation Analysis	8
Correction to: Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing	7
A Decolonial Crip Linguistics	7
The Comprehensibility and Appreciation of Non-Binary Pronouns in Newspaper Reporting. The Case of Hen and Die in Dutch	7
Transitioning between ‘Outside’ and ‘Inside’ Knowledge in an Online University EMI Chemistry Course	7
Teaching Styles in North American University Classrooms: A Corpus-Driven Linguistic Analysis	7
An exploration of psychological capital resources, mindfulness, L2 grit, and L2 achievement: An explanatory mixed-methods study	7
COVID-19 vaccination campaigns for diverse language groups in Pennsylvania/USA and Western Cape/South Africa: Examples from national and sub-national levels	7
Linguistic and Geographic Diversity in Research on Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism: An Analysis of Selected Journals	7
Language Assemblages	6
Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency: Motivation, cognition and identity	6
L2 Pragmatic Development in Constructing and Negotiating Contextual Meanings	6

‘Mentor, friend, teacher, and learner’: The beauty, opportunities, and challenges of heritage speakers as heritage language educators	6
Commentary: Epistemological Positionalities	6
The Discourse of Digital Activism: A Linguistic Analysis of Calls for Action Concerning the Fashion Revolution	6
The Handbook Of Usage-Based Linguistics	6
Correction	6
Comparative analysis of epistemic stance in abstracts of published biomedical research and associated National Institutes of Health funding applications (1985–2020)	6
Formal Linguistics and Language Education. New Empirical Perspectives	5
Belonging-in-Interaction: Expressing and Performing Translocal Belongings Through Language and Arts Practice	5
Notes On Contributors	5
Correction to: Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions	5
Erratum to: Linguistic positivity bias in academic writing: A large-scale diachronic study in life sciences across 50 years	5
Teachers as influencers and personal brands on Instagram: double-tapping language ideologies in the attention economy	5
Linguistic discrimination and resistance: Puerto Rican youth language ideologies	5
Correction to: Connecting Extramural English with ELT: Teacher Reports from Austria, Finland, France and Sweden	5
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking Corpus Compilation and Analysis	5
Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines	5
From Silence to Silencing? Contradictions and Tensions in Language Revitalization	5
Enhancing disciplinary voice through feedback-seeking in AI-assisted doctoral writing for publication	5
Into Collabs: Public Applied Linguistics and Hip Hop Language Technicians	5
Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research	5
Making the Case for Audience Design in Conversational AI: Users’ Pragmatic Strategies and Rapport Expectations in Interaction with a Task-Oriented Chatbot	5