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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	34
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	30
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	25
But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy	22
Evaluating the logic of a policy-driven national language test in Indonesia: A critical discursive investigation of the Test of Indonesian Proficiency (UKBI)	17
Fairness of using different English accents: The effect of shared L1s in listening tasks of the Duolingo English test	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	16
A Systematic Review of Test Component Ordering with Implications for Language Assessment	16
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	15
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing	15
Book Review: Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its companion volume	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	14
Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT)	14
The distribution of cognates and their impact on response accuracy in the EIKEN tests	12
Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	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
A Global South perspective on Open Science in language assessment: A response to Winke	12
Sharing, collaborating, and building trust: How Open Science advances language testing	12
Administration, labor, and love	11
Enhancing second language speaking assessment: Integrating large language models for Finnish and Finland Swedish proficiency scoring	11
Feedforwarding diagnostic language assessment: Artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven weakness identification and contextualised feedback for second language speaking	11
Book review: From assessment to feedback by Inez De Florio	10

Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile	10
Critical discursive approaches to evaluating policy-driven testing: Social impact as a target for validation	10
Forty years of Language Testing , and the changing paths of publishing	10
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	9
Developing internet-based Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL) : An open research endeavour	9
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	9
Making each point count: Revising a local adaptation of the Jacobs et al.’s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE rubric	9
Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	9
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	8
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	8
Utopian and dystopian visions: Steering a course for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in language testing and assessment	8
Expanding horizons in Language Testing : Policies, dialogues, and new directions	8
A sow’s ear purse: Developing an integrated placement test in an under-resourced English for Academic Purposes program	8
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	7
The moderating role of L2 proficiency in the predictive power of L1 fluency on L2 utterance fluency	7
A systematic review of differential item functioning in second language assessment	7
Examining the consistency of instructor versus large language model ratings on summary content: Toward checklist-based feedback provision with second language writers	7
Review of the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP)	7
Towards more valid scoring criteria for integrated reading-writing and listening-writing summary tasks	7
Assessing speaking through multimodal oral presentations: The case of construct underrepresentation in EAP contexts	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
Ukrainian language proficiency test review	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
Language testers and their place in the policy web	6
Who succeeds and who fails? Exploring the role of background variables in explaining the outcomes of L2 language tests	5
Advancing equity in language assessment for learners with disabilities	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
Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements	5
Corrigendum	5
Open Science in language assessment research contexts: A reply to Winke	5
Open Science and the next generation of language testing research	5
Test score comparison tables: How well are they serving test users?	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
Future challenges and opportunities in language testing and assessment: Basic questions and principles at the forefront	5
Accommodations in language testing and assessment: Safeguarding equity, access, and inclusion	5
Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?	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
Book Review: Challenges in Language Testing Around the World: Insights for Language Test Users	4
Modeling local item dependence in C-tests with the loglinear Rasch model	4
Operationalizing the reading-into-writing construct in analytic rating scales: Effects of different approaches on rating	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
Assessing the content quality of essays in content and language integrated learning: Exploring the construct from subject specialists’ perspectives	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
Test-taker insights for language assessment policies and practices	4
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
Language Testing behind the scenes: New capabilities, groundbreaking developments, and disruptive forces	3
Open Science for language assessment research and practice in China: A response to Winke	3
Assessing the speaking proficiency of L2 Chinese learners: Review of the Hanyu Shuiping Kouyu Kaoshi	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
Correction Note	3
Comparing holistic and analytic marking methods in assessing speech act production in L2 Chinese	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
Optimizing distractor quality in a locally developed second language listening test: Integrating generative AI and psychometric methods	3