OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Testing 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Reviews: Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity J. Fox and N. Artemeva	32
The typology of second language listening constructs: A systematic review	31
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	28
Fairness of using different English accents: The effect of shared L1s in listening tasks of the Duolingo English test	23
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	22
But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy	17
Book review: Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Development and Validation through an L2 Chinese IC Test DaiDavid Wei. Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Developmen	17
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing	16
A Systematic Review of Test Component Ordering with Implications for Language Assessment	15
Evaluating the logic of a policy-driven national language test in Indonesia: A critical discursive investigation of the Test of Indonesian Proficiency (UKBI)	15
Investigating construct representativeness and linguistic equity of automated oral reading fluency assessment with prosody	15
Can language test providers do more to support Open Science? A response to Winke	14
Book review: Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice	14
Book review: Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts: Lessons from the Transition to Online Testing During Covid-19	13
Book Review: Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its companion volume	13
Sharing, collaborating, and building trust: How Open Science advances language testing	12
Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT)	12
Book review: Comprehensibility in language assessment: A broader perspective TavakoliP.CookeS.Comprehensibility in Language Assessment: A Broader Perspective. University of Toronto Press, 2024. 224 pp	12
Enhancing second language speaking assessment: Integrating large language models for Finnish and Finland Swedish proficiency scoring	11
The distribution of cognates and their impact on response accuracy in the EIKEN tests	11
Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	11
Administration, labor, and love	11
A Global South perspective on Open Science in language assessment: A response to Winke	11
Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile	10
Making each point count: Revising a local adaptation of the Jacobs et al.’s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE rubric	10

Feedforwarding diagnostic language assessment: Artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven weakness identification and contextualised feedback for second language speaking	10
Developing internet-based Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL): An open research endeavour	9
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	9
Book review: From assessment to feedback by Inez De Florio	9
Critical discursive approaches to evaluating policy-driven testing: Social impact as a target for validation	9
Forty years of Language Testing, and the changing paths of publishing	9
Expanding horizons in Language Testing : Policies, dialogues, and new directions	9
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	8
Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	8
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	7
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	7
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	7
Examining the consistency of instructor versus large language model ratings on summary content: Toward checklist-based feedback provision with second language writers	7
A sow’s ear purse: Developing an integrated placement test in an under-resourced English for Academic Purposes program	7
Towards more valid scoring criteria for integrated reading-writing and listening-writing summary tasks	7
A systematic review of differential item functioning in second language assessment	7
Utopian and dystopian visions: Steering a course for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in language testing and assessment	7
Language testers and their place in the policy web	7
The moderating role of L2 proficiency in the predictive power of L1 fluency on L2 utterance fluency	7
Review of the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP)	6
Large language models as zero-shot evaluators of English–Chinese interpreting: A comparison of GPT-4o and DeepSeek-R1	6
Assessing speaking through multimodal oral presentations: The case of construct underrepresentation in EAP contexts	6
Who succeeds and who fails? Exploring the role of background variables in explaining the outcomes of L2 language tests	6
Ukrainian language proficiency test review	6
Toward a systematic accessibility review process for English language proficiency tests for young learners	6
Corrigendum	5
Future challenges and opportunities in language testing and assessment: Basic questions and principles at the forefront	5
Book review: Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment ChongS.ReindersH. (Eds.), Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. 333 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-18949-4	5
Diagnosing Chinese EFL learners’ writing ability using polytomous cognitive diagnostic models	5
Advancing equity in language assessment for learners with disabilities	5
Rubricizing the assessment practice: A systematic review and meta-analysis of rubrics in rater-mediated assessment of language interpreting	5
Open Science practices in language assessment: Introducing the special issue	5
Accommodations in language testing and assessment: Safeguarding equity, access, and inclusion	5
Open Science and the next generation of language testing research	5
The effect of viewing visual cues in a listening comprehension test on second language learners’ test-taking process and performance: An eye-tracking study	5
Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements	5
Test score comparison tables: How well are they serving test users?	5
Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?	5
Open Science in language assessment research contexts: A reply to Winke	5
A sequential approach to detecting differential rater functioning in sparse rater-mediated assessment networks	4
Comparison of traditional machine learning and neural network approaches for automated scoring of second language English essays	4
Reframing the discourse and rhetoric of language testing and assessment for the public square	4
Speaking task design and complexity and fluency features of adolescent English learners	4
Assessing the content quality of essays in content and language integrated learning: Exploring the construct from subject specialists’ perspectives	4
The human–machine correlation in automated speech evaluation: A three-level meta-analysis	4
Book Review: Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad	4
Book Review: Multilingual Testing and Assessment	4
Book Review: Challenges in Language Testing Around the World: Insights for Language Test Users	4
Fairness and justice in language testing: The challenge of Tim McNamara’s legacy	4
Operationalizing the reading-into-writing construct in analytic rating scales: Effects of different approaches on rating	4

Book review: Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing	4
Modeling local item dependence in C-tests with the loglinear Rasch model	4
Assessing the speaking proficiency of L2 Chinese learners: Review of the Hanyu Shuiping Kouyu Kaoshi	3
Correction Note	3
What does it mean to be a member of a professional association in our field?	3
Open Access in language testing and assessment: The case of two flagship journals	3
Test-taker insights for language assessment policies and practices	3
Open Science for language assessment research and practice in China: A response to Winke	3
A Context-Aligned Two Thousand Test: Toward estimating high-frequency French vocabulary knowledge for beginner-to-low intermediate proficiency adolescent learners in England	3
The vexing problem of validity and the future of second language assessment	3
Revisiting raters’ accent familiarity in speaking tests: Evidence that presentation mode interacts with accent familiarity to variably affect comprehensibility ratings	3
Authenticity of academic lecture passages in high-stakes tests: A temporal fluency perspective	3
Optimizing distractor quality in a locally developed second language listening test: Integrating generative AI and psychometric methods	3