OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Minority Language as a Second Language: Challenges and Achievements	84
Motivation, Autonomy, and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning: A Multi-Perspective Investigation in Hungary	77
A Call for Methodological Reflexivity in Researching Language Testing and Migration	61
FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING FROM AUDIOVISUAL INPUT: THE ROLE OF ORIGINAL VERSION TELEVISION BY PATTEMORE & GESA (SPRINGER, 2025)	60
Ethical awareness versus actual practices: Chinese doctoral students in AI-assisted academic writing	59
The Effects of CLIL and Sources of Individual Differences on Receptive and Productive EFL Skills at the Onset of Primary School	52
Metapragmatic Knowledge and Transfer of Learning across Speech Acts	47
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions	43
COVID-19 Online Medical Consultation: Understanding the Affective Practice	38
Suresh Canagarajah: LANGUAGE INCOMPETENCE: LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE THROUGH CANCER, DISABILITY, AND ANOMALOUS EMBODIMENT	37
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time	37
Enhancing Educators’ Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Critical Literacy	37
Notes On Contributors	30
“Becoming a Linguist: Advice from Key Thinkers in Language Studies”	29
Translanguaging and Educational Inequality in the Global South: Stance-taking amongst Brazilian Teachers of English	28
Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education	28
Revisiting US Undergraduate Perceptions of Non-native English Varieties: From Millennials to Generation Z	28
Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing: The Evolution of an Academic Genre	28
Translingual Practices	27
Knowledge-making from a postgraduate writers’ circle: A Southern Reflectory	25
Automatic Analysis of Constructional Diversity as a Predictor of EFL Students’ Writing Proficiency	25
Gig Economy Teaching: On the Importance and Dangers of Self-branding in Online Markets	23
Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging The Invention of Multilingualism	23
Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing	22
Open Access Academic Lectures as Sources for Incidental Vocabulary Learning: Examining the Role of Input Mode, Frequency, Type of Vocabulary, and Elaboration	22

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis	21
#FleeingWuhan: Legitimation and Delegitimation Strategies in Hostile Online Discourse	21
Voice and Voicing Strategies Across Native and Second Language Writing: Extending the Interactional Metadiscourse Framework	20
Language and Culture as Sources of Inequality in US Police Interrogations	20
Challenging Folk-Linguistics: Grammatical and Spelling Variation in Students’ Writing in Hebrew on WhatsApp and in Essays	19
Fact vs. fiction in professional speechwriting	18
Language tester identity in policy contexts: A narrative analytical approach	18
Which Words Matter Most? Operationalizing Lexical Prevalence For Rank-Ordered Word Lists	17
Towards Clarification of the Second Language Learner Engagement Construct: Taking Stock of its Conceptual Overlap and Hierarchical Structure	17
Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	16
Correction to: A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education	15
The ‘Existential Fabric’ of War: Explaining the Phrase of War in the Laws of War	15
A semiotic study of small-detailed signs in North America vernacular landscape	15
Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction: Affect, Behavior, and Cognition	15
Culture travellers: Theorizing transculturing through transcultural fandom in the GenAI age	14
Empowering Students Through the Construction of a Translanguaging Space in an English as a First Language Classroom	14
Self-access Strategy Instruction for Academic Writing Vocabulary: What Learners Actually Do	14
British Conversation is Changing: Resonance and Engagement in the BNC1994 and the BNC2014	14
Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions	13
Choreographies of Multilingualism. Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore.	13
Verb semantic cohesion in L2 production: a semantic network analysis of written and spoken modalities by Korean EFL learners	13
Practice and Automatization in Second Language Research: Perspectives From Skill Acquisition Theory and Cognitive Psychology	13
A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education	13
Notes on Contributors	13
The Relationship Between L2 Interactional Competence and Proficiency	12
Gregory Hadley and Andrew Boon: Critical Thinking	12
Writing Trajectories of Grammatical Complexity at the University: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers in BAWE	12
Self-Regulated Learning and Knowledge Blindness: Bringing Language into View	12
A longitudinal examination of psychological capital and academic achievement in EMI courses: A multivariate latent growth curve modeling approach	11
Adopting social process tracing in applied linguistics: Lessons from an English-medium Instruction policy case study	11
English in China: Creativity and commodificationCapital, commodity, and English language teaching	11
Engaging with language play: practices of Korean English teachers in elementary classrooms	11
“It’s very well written!”: Revisiting praise in teacher written feedback from the perspective of feedback literacy	10
Transitioning between ‘Outside’ and ‘Inside’ Knowledge in an Online University EMI Chemistry Course	10
COVID-19 vaccination campaigns for diverse language groups in Pennsylvania/USA and Western Cape/South Africa: Examples from national and sub-national levels	10
Vocabulary knowledge and reading proficiency in extramural L2 English among ESCAPERS in Norway and Flanders	10
Managing the Flow of Talk: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Multiword Expression det er sant in L2 Norwegian Interactions	10
Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers	10
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–2020	10
Generative AI and its dilemmas: exploring AI from a translanguaging perspective	10
A Decolonial Crip Linguistics	10
Correction to: Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing	9
The Comprehensibility and Appreciation of Non-Binary Pronouns in Newspaper Reporting. The Case of Hen and Die in Dutch	8
Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data	8
The Handbook Of Usage-Based Linguistics	8
Teaching Styles in North American University Classrooms: A Corpus-Driven Linguistic Analysis	8
Teachers Reflecting on Boredom in the Language Classroom: Mirosław Pawlak, Mariusz Kruk, and Joanna Zawodniak	8
Linguistic and Geographic Diversity in Research on Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism: An Analysis of Selected Journals	8
English and global citizenship education: A critical examination of multilingual classrooms in the global south	8
An exploration of psychological capital resources, mindfulness, L2 grit, and L2 achievement: An explanatory mixed-methods study	8

The Discourse of Digital Activism: A Linguistic Analysis of Calls for Action Concerning the Fashion Revolution	7
Words and meanings in cancer communication: Denotational and connotational misalignments	7
Correction	7
Language Assemblages	7
‘Mentor, friend, teacher, and learner’: The beauty, opportunities, and challenges of heritage speakers as heritage language educators	7
Comparative analysis of epistemic stance in abstracts of published biomedical research and associated National Institutes of Health funding applications (1985–2020)	7
Notes On Contributors	6
What does language commodification do for language teachers? Exploring imaginations of Taiwanese Mandarin as a commodity in the online gig economy	6
Correction to: Connecting Extramural English with ELT: Teacher Reports from Austria, Finland, France and Sweden	6
Belonging-in-Interaction: Expressing and Performing Translocal Belongings Through Language and Arts Practice	6
Examining English language learners’ longitudinal development of syntactic complexity across five CEFR levels with a robust measurement design: A mixed-methods approach	6
L2 Pragmatic Development in Constructing and Negotiating Contextual Meanings	6
The development and trends of complex dynamic systems theory in applied linguistics: A bibliometric analysis from 1997 to 2023	6
Spatial policing: Race, surveillance, and the politics of community language schools in White public-school spaces	6
Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines	6
Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency: Motivation, cognition and identity	6
Rethinking translanguaging: (Trans)bordering, spatiality, and academic discourse socialization in a graduate TESOL classroom	6
Enhancing disciplinary voice through feedback-seeking in AI-assisted doctoral writing for publication	6