OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Innovation, Resiliency, and Genius in Intensive English Programs: Decolonializing Recruitment and Contradictory Advocacy	55
Failing Fortunes of Applied Linguistics: Towards Surviving Mastery	54
Notes on Contributors	48
Assessing the Development of L2 Speaking Skills in Inside-School and Outside-School Settings Through Growth Modelling	32
Transformative Pedagogies for English Teaching: Teachers and Students Building Social Justice Together	30
Exploratory Interactive Explaining (EXINTEX): Constructing Disciplinary Knowledge in Two Multilingual University Settings	27
Second Language Learning Difficulty of Chinese Grammar: A Rasch Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions	27
Critical Race Pedagogy for More Effective and Inclusive World Language Teaching	22
English in China: Creativity and commodificationCapital, commodity, and English language teaching	22
A Data-driven Learning Focus on Form Approach to Academic English Lecture Comprehension	21
‘Amber Alert’ or ‘Heatwave Warning’: The Role of Linguistic Framing in Mediating Understandings of Early Warning Messages about Heatwaves and Cold Spells	20
Can State Offices Reclaim Kichwa? Intercultural Bilingual Education Politics and Policy in Ecuador Over Decades	20
Heritage Language Instruction to Young Immigrants: An In-depth Look at the Psycholinguistic Effects During the Simultaneous Acquisition of Two Second Languages	16
Getting a load of linguistic reasoning: How L1 student teachers process rules of thumb and linguistic manipulations in discussions about grammar	15
The Effect of Automatic Text Simplification on L2 Readers’ Text Comprehension	15
Correction to: Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction	14
Alene Moyer: The Gifted Language Learner: A Case Of Nature or Nurture?	14
The pragmatism of emotional-expressive words in Kazakh linguistics: A study of M. Auezov’s ‘The Way of Abai’	13
Liquid Crystals: A Phenomenological Approach to Complexity of University Students' Identity Formation Through Translanguaging Perspective	12
Purpose and Strategic Engagement in Informal English Digital Activities and Aspects of Vocabulary Knowledge	12
Martin J. Pickering and Simon Garrod: Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction	12
English and Development: Voices from a Rural Bangladeshi Madrasa	12
Bill VanPatten, Megan Smith, and Alessandro G. Benati: Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction	12
Applied Linguistics Communities of Practice: Improving the Research Practice Relationship	12
Ema Ushioda: Language Learning Motivation: An Ethical Agenda for Research	12

A Call for Methodological Reflexivity in Researching Language Testing and Migration	11
Correction to: Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–2020	10
Intra-Caribbean Solidarities and the Language of Social Protest	10
The Effects of CLIL and Sources of Individual Differences on Receptive and Productive EFL Skills at the Onset of Primary School	10
Journal Editor's Preface to the Special Issue	10
Sketches Toward a Decolonial Applied Linguistics	10
Notes On Contributors	10
Mobile Assisted Language Learning Across Educational Contexts	10
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–2020	9
Interpreting Swearwords in Police Interviews and Perceived Offensiveness of Insults in the UK and Spain	9
Emotion Word Development in Bilingual Children Living in Majority and Minority Contexts	9
Pithy Persuasion: Engagement in 3 Minute Thesis Presentations	9
Unilingualism and Unibilingualism in Colombia	8
Human versus Computer Partner in the Paired Oral Discussion Test	8
The growth trajectories of L2 self-efficacy and its effects on L2 learning: Using a curve-of-factors model	8
Correction to: Book Review of The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	8
Global Villain, but Local Hero? A Linguistic Analysis of Climate Narratives from the Fossil Fuel Sector	8
The Minority Language as a Second Language: Challenges and Achievements: Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter	7
Transpositioning: Translanguaging and the Liquidity of Identity	7
Linguistic dissociation: A general theory to explain the phenomenon of linguistic distancing behaviours	7
Gregory Hadley and Andrew Boon: Critical Thinking	7
Effects of the Continuation Task and the RCC Task on Japanese as a Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning	7
Epistemic Reciprocity Through a Decolonial Crip Literacy in Accommodated Language Education for Adults	6
Colonizability and Hermeneutical Injustice in Applied Linguistics Research: (Im)possibilities for Epistemological Delinking	6
Discourses between the Public and the Private: Transnational Families at the Crossroads	6
Managing the Flow of Talk: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Multiword Expression det er sant in L2 Norwegian Interactions	6
Development of Noun Phrase Complexity Across Genres in Children’s Writing	6
Transformation of Applied Linguistics in the Global South Context of Bangladesh: Researcher Agency, Imagination, and North-South Cooperation	6
‘Did You See That?’—The Role of Repetition and Enhancement on Lexical Bundle Processing in English Learning Materials	6
Xiaofei Lu: Corpus Linguistics And Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives, Issues, And Findings	5
Standing ‘in’ and ‘out’ from the Crowd in a Small Genre: Proximity and Positioning in Applied Linguists’ Email Signatures	5
Notes on Contributors	5
‘ITA problem’ or opportunity? Online global communication training at a US university to increase undergraduate students’ use of collaborative strategies	5
Co-Topical Small Talk: Troubles-Telling in Traditional Chinese Medical Encounters	5
Notes on Contributors	5
Carmen Pérez-Llantada: RESEARCH GENRES ACROSS LANGUAGES: MULTILINGUAL COMMUNICATION ONLINE	5
Metapragmatic Knowledge and Transfer of Learning across Speech Acts	5
A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Second Language Pragmatics Instruction	5
Evidence-Based Holistic Approach to Supporting International Students’ English Language Proficiency Needs and Wellbeing: The Impact of Personalized Autonomous Learning	5
Notes on Contributors	5
For the Record: Questioning Transcription Processes in Legal Contexts	5
Digital Genres in Academic Knowledge Production and Communication: Perspectives and Practices	4
Cognitive Foundations of Society: The Concept of Schemata in Cell, Gene, and Tissue Therapies	4
Correction to: Pockets of Possibility: Students of English in Diverse, Multilingual Secondary Schools in Austria	4
Jason Rothman, Jorge González Alonso, and Eloi Puig-Mayenco: Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic Transfer	4
How Children Read Multilingual Texts: A Description of Reading Translanguaging Strategies	4
Destabilizing Racial Discourses in Casual Talk-in-interaction	4
Alison Mackey: Interaction, Feedback and Task Research in Second Language Learning: Methods and Design	4
Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data	4
Multimodal Participation and Engagement: Social Interaction in the Classroom	4

An intervention study on the influence of altruistic teaching on L2 learners’ English research article abstract writing	4
Immigrant Outreach and Language Access During First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
English in Specialized Communication and its Impact on Spanish Medical Lexicon	4
Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds): THE LANGUAGE OF CRISIS: METAPHORS, FRAMES AND DISCOURSES. John Benjamins, 2020.	4
“Bridging cultures with love”: Spirituality in fostering intercultural effectiveness. The effects of language	4
What Should Go With This Word Here: Connecting Lexical Collocations and Rhetorical Moves in Narrative Stories	4
Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: An investigation of the Foreign Language Effect	4
Corrigendum to: Community-Centered Collaboration in Applied Linguistics	4
Weight Stigma: Towards a Language-Informed Analytical Framework	4
Henry Widdowson: On The Subject of English	4
Bidialectal Practices and L2 Arabic Pragmatic Development in a Short-Term Study Abroad	3
Jean Wong and Hansun Zhang Waring: Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers	3
Achieving Joint Attention and Understanding of Task Responsibilities in Synchronous Hybrid L2 Classroom Group Work	3
From Colonialism to Self-determination: A Historical Study of Language Testing and Institutional Policy	3
Virtuous Outlaws: Affective Claims to Value in Professional Speechwriters’ Discourse	3
Corrigendum to: Can Self-Regulation be Transferred to Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching? Current Status, Controversies, and Future Directions	3
Vera Sotirovska and Margaret Vaughn: Enhancing Educators’ Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Critical Literacy	3
Processing Pronouns of Address in a Job Interview in French and German	3
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time	3
Two Sources of Miscommunication in Oncology Consultations: An Observational Study Using Conversation Analysis	3
To disclose or not to disclose: Exploring the risk of being transparent about GenAI use in second language writing	3
Correction to: Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing	3
COVID-19 Online Medical Consultation: Understanding the Affective Practice	3