OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Teaching is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Global Englishes and language teaching: A review of pedagogical research	69
Race and language teaching	67
Investment and motivation in language learning: What's the difference?	49
Research into practice: Virtual exchange in language teaching and learning	35
Sociocultural theory and concept-based language instruction	27
Oral fluency in a second language: A research agenda for the next ten years	26
Second or foreign language learning through watching audio-visual input and the role of on-screen text	24
Data-driven learning – a call for a broader research gaze	24
English language education in Indonesia: A review of research (2011–2019)	23
Language learner autonomy: Rethinking language teaching	22
Some directions for the possible survival of TBLT as a real world project	20
Dynamic Assessment and second language development	20
Collaborative writing in L2 classrooms: A research agenda	18
Assessing young learners’ foreign language abilities	18
Defining English Medium Instruction: Striving for comparative equivalence	17
Research tasks on ethics in applied linguistics	17
A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going?	16
Ecological systems theory and second language research	16
The influence of orthography in second language phonological acquisition	16
Word association research and the L2 lexicon	15
Translanguaging in education	14
English Medium Instruction: What do we know so far and what do we still need to find out?	13
Technology-mediated task-based language teaching: A research agenda	13
Using elicited imitation to measure global oral proficiency in SLA research: A close replication study	13
Language learning and emotion	13

Is ESP a materials and teaching-led movement?	12
Evidence in favor of a strategy-based model for English pronunciation instruction	11
From replication to substantiation: A complexity theory perspective	10
Critical language pedagogy	10
Multilingualism in academic writing for publication: Putting English in its place	10
Motivational connections in language classrooms: A research agenda	10
Reflecting on task-based language teaching from an Instructed SLA perspective	9
L2 classroom interaction and its links to L2 learners’ developing L2 linguistic repertoires: A research agenda	9
Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference 2021	9
The Global ELT coursebook: A case of Cinderella's slipper?	9
Classroom-based assessment	9
Glossing and vocabulary learning	9
Language socialization and academic discourse in English as a Foreign Language contexts: A research agenda	8
Speech acts and interaction in second language pragmatics: A position paper	8
Emergent STEM lecturer identities: The shaping effects of EMI in action in an internationalised and Englishised HE context	8
One norm to rule them all? Corpus-derived norms in learner corpus research and foreign language teaching	7
Planning in L1 and L2 writing: Working memory, process, and product	7
How effective is second language incidental vocabulary learning? A meta-analysis	7
Transformative pedagogy for inclusion and social justice through translanguaging, co-learning, and transpositioning	7
Native-speakerism and non-native second language teachers: A research agenda	7
The third wind of language learning strategies research	7
Research into practice: CLIL in South America	7
Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Denver, USA, March 2020	6
Revalidation of the L2-Grit scale: A conceptual replication of Teimouri, Y., Plonsky, L., & Tabandeh, F. (2022). L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning	6
Open scholarship in applied linguistics: What, why, and how	6
Proper name theory and implications for second language reading	6
Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning of an additional language: A research agenda	5
Analysing culture in language learning materials	5
Second language speech comprehensibility	5
Applied corpus linguistics for language acquisition, pedagogy, and beyond	5
Student support and teacher education in English for Academic Purposes and English Medium Instruction: Two sides of the same coin?	5
Review of recent empirical research (2011–2018) on language assessment in China	5
Research on “native” and “non-native” English-speaking teachers: Past developments, current status, and future directions	5
Transitioning from conversation analysis to mixed methods	5
The trends and developments of L2 Japanese research in the 2010s	5
The relation of second language acquisition, instructed second language acquisition, and language teaching from the lens of second language tense-aspect	4
Publishing in predatory language and linguistics journals: Authors’ experiences and motivations	4
Review of doctoral research in language education in Germany (2014–2018)	4
What's in a name? Why ‘SLA’ is no longer fit for purpose and the emerging, more equitable alternatives	4
Usage-based instruction, systems thinking, and the role of Language Mining in second language development	4
TESOL teacher educators in higher education: A review of studies from 2010 to 2020	4
Research ethics in applied linguistics	4
Research on the role of recasts in L2 learning	4
The visual signature of non-understanding: A systematic replication of McDonough, Trofimovich, Lu, and Abashidze (2019)	4
Multimodal input in second-language speech processing	4
Selected poster presentations from the British Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, August 2019	4
The final frontier? Why we have been ignoring second language attrition, and why it is time we stopped	4
Plagiarism and English for academic purposes: A research agenda	4
Teaching English in multilingual Israel: Who teaches whom and how. A review of recent research 2014–2020	4
Second language writing from a complex dynamic systems perspective	3

Research on English language teaching and learning in Argentina (2014–2018)	3
Research into practice: Teaching notetaking to L2 students	3
How does having a good ear promote successful second language speech acquisition in adulthood? Introducing Auditory Precision Hypothesis-L2	3
Research agenda: Researching grammar teaching and learning in the second language classroom	3
Claire Kramsch in conversation with Zhu Hua	3
Using social networking sites as a language teaching and learning environment	3
Integrating research into language teaching and learning: Learners and teachers as co-researchers exploring praxis	3
Learner attitudes and attention to form in peer interaction: A proposal to replicate Adams et al. (2011) and Philp et al. (2010)	3
Mind the gap: A tale of two curriculum fallacies	3
Navigating the research–practice relationship: Professional goals and constraints	2
Research synthesis in applied linguistics: Facilitating research-pedagogy dialogue	2
Input spacing in second language classroom settings: Replications of Bird (2010) and Serrano (2011)	2
Crosslinguistic influence and L2 grammar learning: Proposed replications of Ellis and Sagarra (2011) and Tolentino and Tokowicz (2014)	2
Materials use in language classrooms: A research agenda	2
The story of a loner learner: Reconsidering authenticity and authentic engagement in second language learning	2
Going meta: Bringing together an understanding of metadiscourse with students’ metalinguistic understanding	2
Replicating corpus-based research in English for academic purposes: Proposed replication of Cortes (2013) and Biber and Gray (2010)	2
Difficulties in academic reading for EFL students: An initial investigation	2
Language teaching and learning in Ireland: 2012–2021	2
Studies on pre-primary learners of foreign languages, their teachers, and parents: A critical overview of publications between 2000 and 2022	2
LTA volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Technology-enhanced language learning and pragmatics: Insights from digital game-based pragmatics instruction	1
Practitioners respond to Sarah Mercer's ‘Psychology for language learning: Spare a thought for the teacher’	1
Webinar on the subject of English and applied linguistics	1
Practitioners respond to Icy Lee's ‘Teacher written corrective feedback: Less is more’	1
Whose open science are we talking about? From open science in psychology to open science in applied linguistics	1
Norbert Schmitt's essential bookshelf: Formulaic language	1
Engaging learners in pronunciation: Developing learner autonomy via an action research approach	1
Martin East's essential bookshelf: Task-based language teaching	1
Rod Ellis's essential bookshelf: Focus on form	1
What about the teacher?	1
Fifty-five years and counting: A half-century of getting it half-right?	1
Reducing ‘avoidable research waste’ in applied linguistics research: Insights from healthcare research	1
Should linguistics be applied and, if so, how?	1
Virtual professional development project on secondary teachers’ awareness of race, language, and culture	1
Doctoral dissertations on second language writing and technology in the USA (2010–2019)	1
Ema Ushioda's essential bookshelf: Teacher engagement with classroom motivation research	1
Selected poster presentations from the British Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, August 2019	1
The Shanghai alliance of multilingual researchers: Fudan University, Tongji University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Shanghai International Studies University, China	1
John Flowerdew's essential bookshelf: English for research publication purposes (ERPP)	1
Self-assessment in second language learning	1
Complex dynamic systems theory: A webinar with Diane Larsen-Freeman	1
Practitioners respond to John Flowerdew's ‘The linguistic disadvantage of scholars who write in English as an additional language: Myth or reality’	1
Virtual reality in the EAP classroom: Creating immersive, interactive, and accessible experiences for international students	1
Mixed-methods research in applied linguistics: Charting the progress through the second decade of the twenty-first century	1
Multimodal composing and second language acquisition	1
Researching language-focused study abroad through an equity lens: A research agenda	1
Vocabulary learning from reading and listening: Replications of Brown et al. (2008) and Vidal (2011)	1
Research on foreign language learning, teaching, and assessment in Sweden 2012–2021	1
Ken Hyland's essential bookshelf: Academic writing	1
The ethical turn in writing assessment: How far have we come, and where do we still need to go?	1
Investigating explicit and implicit L2 knowledge and learning: Replications of Erlam (2005) and Roehr-Brackin and Tellier (2019)	1
Optimizing second language pronunciation instruction: Replications of Martin and Sippel (2021), Olson and Offerman (2021), and Thomson (2012)	1
How to maximize language learners' career readiness	1
Tangible insights on the strategizing of language learners and users	1