OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Testing is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The typology of second language listening constructs: A systematic review	24
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	24
Reading is a multidimensional construct at child-L2-English-literacy onset, but comprises fewer dimensions over time: Evidence from multidimensional IRT analysis	16
Book Reviews: Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity J. Fox and N. Artemeva	16
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	14
Can language test providers do more to support Open Science? A response to Winke	14
Fairness of using different English accents: The effect of shared L1s in listening tasks of the Duolingo English test	14
Hong Kong secondary students’ perspectives on selecting test difficulty level and learner washback: Effects of a graded approach to assessment	14
But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy	14
Critical language assessment literacy of EFL teachers: Scale construction and validation	13
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing	13
Book review: Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice	12
Book review: Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts: Lessons from the Transition to Online Testing During Covid-19	11
Book Review: Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its companion volume	10
Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT)	10
The distribution of cognates and their impact on response accuracy in the EIKEN tests	9
Sharing, collaborating, and building trust: How Open Science advances language testing	9
A Global South perspective on Open Science in language assessment: A response to Winke	9
Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile	8
Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	8
Forty years of Language Testing, and the changing paths of publishing	8
Administration, labor, and love	8
Making each point count: Revising a local adaptation of the Jacobs et al.’s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE rubric	7
Developing internet-based Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL): An open research endeavour	7
Book Review: Assessing Speaking in Context—Expanding the Construct and its Applications	7

Critical discursive approaches to evaluating policy-driven testing: Social impact as a target for validation	7
Book review: From assessment to feedback by Inez De Florio	7
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	6
Test Review: The International English Language Testing System (IELTS)	6
Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	6
IRT-based classification analysis of an English language reading proficiency subtest	6
Roles of working memory, syllogistic inferencing ability, and linguistic knowledge on second language listening comprehension for passages of different lengths	5
Towards more valid scoring criteria for integrated reading-writing and listening-writing summary tasks	5
Review of the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP)	5
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	5
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	5
Assessing speaking through multimodal oral presentations: The case of construct underrepresentation in EAP contexts	5
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	5
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	5
Aptis test review	5
The moderating role of L2 proficiency in the predictive power of L1 fluency on L2 utterance fluency	5
Language testers and their place in the policy web	4
What can gaze behaviors, neuroimaging data, and test scores tell us about test method effects and cognitive load in listening assessments?	4
Who succeeds and who fails? Exploring the role of background variables in explaining the outcomes of L2 language tests	4
Corrigendum	4
Future challenges and opportunities in language testing and assessment: Basic questions and principles at the forefront	4
Application of an Automated Essay Scoring engine to English writing assessment using Many-Facet Rasch Measurement	4
Ukrainian language proficiency test review	4
The effect of viewing visual cues in a listening comprehension test on second language learners’ test-taking process and performance: An eye-tracking study	4
Open Science practices in language assessment: Introducing the special issue	4
Open Science in language assessment research contexts: A reply to Winke	4
A systematic review of differential item functioning in second language assessment	4
Toward a systematic accessibility review process for English language proficiency tests for young learners	4
Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements	4
Advancing equity in language assessment for learners with disabilities	4
The use of generalizability theory in investigating the score dependability of classroom-based L2 reading assessment	4
Diagnosing Chinese EFL learners’ writing ability using polytomous cognitive diagnostic models	3
Accommodations in language testing and assessment: Safeguarding equity, access, and inclusion	3
Book review: Another Generation of Fundamental Considerations in Language Assessment: A Festschrift in Honor of Lyle F. Bachman	3
Register variation in spoken and written language use across technology-mediated and non-technology-mediated learning environments	3
Open Science and the next generation of language testing research	3
Fairness and justice in language testing: The challenge of Tim McNamara’s legacy	3
Citizenship in language testing: A call for respectful collaborations	3
Test score comparison tables: How well are they serving test users?	3
Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?	3
Operationalizing the reading-into-writing construct in analytic rating scales: Effects of different approaches on rating	3
Reframing the discourse and rhetoric of language testing and assessment for the public square	3
Modeling local item dependence in C-tests with the loglinear Rasch model	2
Open Science for language assessment research and practice in China: A response to Winke	2
Examining the factor structure and its replicability across multiple listening test forms: Validity evidence for the Michigan English Test	2
The domain expert perspective: A qualitative study into the views expressed in a standard-setting exercise on a language for specific purposes (LSP) test for health professionals	2
Review of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test	2
Responsibilities and opportunities in language testing with respect to historicized forms of socio-political discrimination: A matter of academic citizenship	2
Book Review: Multilingual Testing and Assessment	2
Assessing the speaking proficiency of L2 Chinese learners: Review of the Hanyu Shuiping Kouyu Kaoshi	2

Book review: Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing	2
Speaking task design and complexity and fluency features of adolescent English learners	2
A sequential approach to detecting differential rater functioning in sparse rater-mediated assessment networks	2
Assessing the content quality of essays in content and language integrated learning: Exploring the construct from subject specialists’ perspectives	2
Revisiting raters’ accent familiarity in speaking tests: Evidence that presentation mode interacts with accent familiarity to variably affect comprehensibility ratings	2
What the analytic versus holistic scoring of international teaching assistants can reveal: Lexical grammar matters	2
Test-taker insights for language assessment policies and practices	2
Book Review: Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad	2
Innovation and expansion in Language Testing for changing times	2
Correction Note	2
Book Review: Challenges in Language Testing Around the World: Insights for Language Test Users	2