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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	36
Book Reviews: Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity J. Fox and N. Artemeva	34
Test Review: The Test of Proficiency in Korean	31
The typology of second language listening constructs: A systematic review	30
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	22
Fairness of using different English accents: The effect of shared L1s in listening tasks of the Duolingo English test	19
Evaluating the logic of a policy-driven national language test in Indonesia: A critical discursive investigation of the Test of Indonesian Proficiency (UKBI)	18
But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy	18
A Systematic Review of Test Component Ordering with Implications for Language Assessment	17
Investigating construct representativeness and linguistic equity of automated oral reading fluency assessment with prosody	16
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing	16
Book review: Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Development and Validation through an L2 Chinese IC Test DaiDavid Wei. Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Developmen	15
Can language test providers do more to support Open Science? A response to Winke	15
Book review: Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice	14
Book Review: Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its companion volume	14
Sharing, collaborating, and building trust: How Open Science advances language testing	14
Book review: Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts: Lessons from the Transition to Online Testing During Covid-19	14
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	14
Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT)	14
“I Feel Like Talking With a Friend”: Exploring the Potential of Empathetic Spoken Dialogue Systems in Assessing Interactional Competence in L2 Oral Assessment	13
The distribution of cognates and their impact on response accuracy in the EIKEN tests	12
A Global South perspective on Open Science in language assessment: A response to Winke	12
Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	12
Feedforwarding diagnostic language assessment: Artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven weakness identification and contextualised feedback for second language speaking	11
Forty years of Language Testing , and the changing paths of publishing	11

Administration, labor, and love	11
Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile	11
Enhancing second language speaking assessment: Integrating large language models for Finnish and Finland Swedish proficiency scoring	11
Critical discursive approaches to evaluating policy-driven testing: Social impact as a target for validation	10
Developing internet-based Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL) : An open research endeavour	10
Book review: From assessment to feedback by Inez De Florio	10
Toward Standardized Interactivity: An AI-Enabled Adaptive Speaking Task for Computer-Delivered Large-Scale Assessment	9
Book Review: Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings: Educative Issues and Empirical Approaches Melo-PfeiferS.OllivierC. (Eds.), Assessment of Pluriling	9
Making each point count: Revising a local adaptation of the Jacobs et al.’s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE rubric	9
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	8
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	8
Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	8
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	8
Towards more valid scoring criteria for integrated reading-writing and listening-writing summary tasks	8
A sow’s ear purse: Developing an integrated placement test in an under-resourced English for Academic Purposes program	8
Expanding horizons in Language Testing : Policies, dialogues, and new directions	8
Utopian and dystopian visions: Steering a course for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in language testing and assessment	8
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	8
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	7
LLM-Driven Spoken Dialogue Systems in Language Assessment: Where We Stand and Where We are Headed	7
Examining the consistency of instructor versus large language model ratings on summary content: Toward checklist-based feedback provision with second language writers	7
Assessing speaking through multimodal oral presentations: The case of construct underrepresentation in EAP contexts	7
A systematic review of differential item functioning in second language assessment	7
Language testers and their place in the policy web	7
The effect of viewing visual cues in a listening comprehension test on second language learners’ test-taking process and performance: An eye-tracking study	6
Toward a systematic accessibility review process for English language proficiency tests for young learners	6
Large language models as zero-shot evaluators of English–Chinese interpreting: A comparison of GPT-4o and DeepSeek-R1	6
The moderating role of L2 proficiency in the predictive power of L1 fluency on L2 utterance fluency	6
Ukrainian language proficiency test review	6
Review of the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP)	6
Rubricizing the assessment practice: A systematic review and meta-analysis of rubrics in rater-mediated assessment of language interpreting	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
Accommodations in language testing and assessment: Safeguarding equity, access, and inclusion	5
Open Science and the next generation of language testing research	5
Future challenges and opportunities in language testing and assessment: Basic questions and principles at the forefront	5
Advancing equity in language assessment for learners with disabilities	5
Test score comparison tables: How well are they serving test users?	5
Diagnosing Chinese EFL learners’ writing ability using polytomous cognitive diagnostic models	5
Corrigendum	5
Open Science in language assessment research contexts: A reply to Winke	5
Open Science practices in language assessment: Introducing the special issue	5
Concordance or Discordance? The Broader Context of English Tests for Australian Immigration	5
Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements	5
Developing and Validating a Computerized Dynamic Diagnostic Assessment of Pragmatic Competence for Chinese Learners of English	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
Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?	4
Modeling local item dependence in C-tests with the loglinear Rasch model	4
Revisiting raters’ accent familiarity in speaking tests: Evidence that presentation mode interacts with accent familiarity to variably affect comprehensibility ratings	4
Investigating the Real-World Relevance of an Academic English Speaking Test: Extrapolating Subjective Evaluations and Linguistic Performance Characteristics	4

Operationalizing the reading-into-writing construct in analytic rating scales: Effects of different approaches on rating	4
Comparison of traditional machine learning and neural network approaches for automated scoring of second language English essays	4
Book review: Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing	4
Test-taker insights for language assessment policies and practices	4
Assessing the content quality of essays in content and language integrated learning: Exploring the construct from subject specialists’ perspectives	4
Open Science for language assessment research and practice in China: A response to Winke	4
Fairness and justice in language testing: The challenge of Tim McNamara’s legacy	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
Book Review: Multilingual Testing and Assessment	4
Correction Note	4
Authenticity of academic lecture passages in high-stakes tests: A temporal fluency perspective	4
Language Testing behind the scenes: New capabilities, groundbreaking developments, and disruptive forces	3
Comparing holistic and analytic marking methods in assessing speech act production in L2 Chinese	3
Optimizing distractor quality in a locally developed second language listening test: Integrating generative AI and psychometric methods	3
What does it mean to be a member of a professional association in our field?	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
Argument-based validation of Academic Collocation Tests	3
The vexing problem of validity and the future of second language assessment	3
Assessing the speaking proficiency of L2 Chinese learners: Review of the Hanyu Shuiping Kouyu Kaoshi	3
Open Access in language testing and assessment: The case of two flagship journals	3