OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Applied Linguistics 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Strategy Instruction on Chinese EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Awareness and Pragmatic Motivation	124
Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity	53
Multi‐Formed Power and Coordinated Responses in Academic Supervision	44
A Narrative Inquiry Into the Role of Emotional Experience in Novice Secondary School English Teachers’ Identity Construction	36
Profiling EFL Students’ Motivation and Anxiety in Collaborative Learning: Associations With Teachers’ Support, Self‐Regulated Learning, and Achievement	28
Researching second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment: An introduction for student researchersChristina L.Isabelli‐García, Casilde A.IsabelliPalgrave Pivot, 2020. xxii + 138	23
“Our study offers insight into…” Rhetorical promotion in English and Spanish conference abstracts	23
Functions of idioms in English as lingua franca: An appraisal system account	22
Measuring native‐speaker vocabulary size. PaulNation and AverilCoxhead, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2021, xiii, 160 pp., Hardbound: ISBN 9789027208149, EUR 95.00; Paperb	21
A contrastive analysis of congratulate by native speakers of Chinese and advanced learners of Chinese	21
Conducting sentiment analysis, LeiLei and DilinLiu, Cambridge University Press, 2021. 96 pp	19
EFL Learners’ Perceptions of and Affective Engagement With Paper‐Based and Mobile‐Assisted Language Learning in Classroom Interactions	17
Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English	16
The relationship between receptive and productive knowledge of L2 English collocations	16
Vocabulary Demands of Open Access Academia: A YouTube Corpus Study	15
A Translanguaging Approach to Doctoral Supervision: Leveraging Students’ Multilingualism as Intellectual Resources	15
Evidential Strategies in Chinese Social‐Mediated Communication: A Digital Conversation‐Analytic Approach	15
Where there is suffering, there is sympathy: The speech act Sympathize in learning Chinese as a foreign language	15
The Effects of Rule‐Based and Acoustic‐Perceptual Instruction on Chinese ESL Learners’ English Primary Word Stress Placement Accuracy	13
Posture, Competitiveness, and Motivation of Korean Language Learners: A Mixed‐Methods Study	13
Effects of Task Complexity and L2 Proficiency on Functional Adequacy in L2 Writing	13
Statistics in corpus linguistics: A practical guideVaclavBrezinaCambridge University Press, 2018	13
Epistemic Dissemination as Dialogue: A Case of Museum‐Visitor Stance Negotiation Through Multilingualism	12
Metacognitive Awareness and EFL Learners' Writing Performance in ChatGPT‐Assisted Writing Context	11
Preschool English language planning in China: Tensions between policy and practice	11

Exploring the Relationship Between Self‐Regulated Learning Strategies and Technology Acceptance in GenAI‐Assisted Writing: A Person‐Centered Approach	10
Co‐Authorship in Applied Linguistics Research: Patterns and Trends, 1991–2023	9
Effects of deductive and explicit‐inductive instruction on tertiary‐level Chinese learners’ use of English subjunctive as a pragmatic mitigator	9
English teachers’ professional identity incorporated with perceived anxiety in the context of flipped teaching: Scale development and model extension	9
The Roles of Decision‐Makers in Family Language Policy Process: A Systematic Review of Research Since 2013	9
A Multiple‐Choice Exercise on Collocations: What Do Learners Actually Remember?	9
Language Teachers’ Development of Decision‐Making and Pedagogical Reasoning: A Sociocultural Perspective on Peer Coaching	8
Do Formal Stance Strategies Reveal Disciplinary Variation in Professional Scientific Writing?	8
Local Grammar Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on the Discursive Representation of Climate Change in the UN News	8
Linguistic and Cultural Immersion of American Students in Spanish Universities: Implications for Higher Education and Study Abroad Programs	8
Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Voice Cloning in Phonetic Self‐Imitation for L2 Pronunciation Training	8
E‐learning anxiety and satisfaction with online EFL courses in times of COVID‐19: A moderated mediation model of positive coping and gender	8
The Cross‐Linguistic Transfer of Self‐Regulated Learning Strategy Use From L1 to L2: The Moderating Role of L2 Learning Motivation and Exposure	8
English learning and use in Hong Kong's bilingual education: Implications for L2 learners’ development of interactional competence	8
Understanding academic vocabulary learning in higher education: Perspectives from first‐year undergraduates in Hong Kong	8
Exploring Strategies to Connect Foreign Language Education With People Skills: Nurturing Intercultural Understanding Through the Rich Cultural Tapestry of Japanese Anime	7
Perceptual ratings of pronunciation for L2 learners of English as a function of task type, word position, and listener expertise	7
Report by Grégory Miras as AILA ReN Coordinator	7
Meaningful teaching interaction at the internationalised university: Moving from research to impactDorisDippoldMarionHeronRoutledge, 2021. xxiv + 209 pp. ISBN: 9780429329692 (ebk)	7
The role of reticence in the comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions in the foreign language	7
Guiding the Future: The Role of L2 Self‐Guides in Predicting Pre‐Service Language Teachers’ Professional Commitment	7
A Systematic Review on Generative AI in L2 Speaking Development From a Self‐Determination Theory Perspective	7
Adapting the task‐based methodology for learners with intellectual disabilities: Five key facets for consideration	7
Emotion in language: Emotion word type and valence interactively predicted Chinese emotional word processing in emotion categorization task	7
Examining L3 Vocabulary Instruction Through Pedagogical Translanguaging in a Beginner‐Level Russian Classroom	7
Exploring Mindset Profiles and Their Associations With Enjoyment, Ideal Self, Grit, and Achievement Among Chinese Adolescent Language Learners: A Latent Profile Analysis	6
Emotions, perspectives, and English language teacher identity construction: A phenomenographic‐narrative study	6
Tracking Advanced Chinese Language Learners’ Oral Proficiency Development and Social Network Construction While Studying Abroad	6
Interaction between levels of text representation and working memory during L2 reading comprehension: What about it?	6
The relationship between self‐regulated learning strategy use and task engagement	6
Enabling and Enacting: Interplay of Agency and Emotions in the Learning Experiences of Successful EFL Learners	6
Report by Grégory Miras as AILA ReN Coordinator	6
Revisiting directionality in China's “outward translation”	6
Enhancing Motivation and Listening Comprehension Among Japanese EFL Students Through Translanguaging Practices	6
Learner knowledge of English phrasal verbs: Awareness, confidence, and learning experiences	6
Unraveling University EFL Teachers’ Feedback Beliefs in Teaching English Argumentative Writing	6
A Journey of Discovery: Unraveling Chinese Qingjiao ’s (Earlier Career University Teachers’) Professional Agency for Learning to Negotiate Identity Tensi	6
Attitudes toward the spread of English and language learning motivation: A graded response model analysis	6
Students’ Perspectives and Attitudes Toward EMI and Translanguaging: A Cross‐Country Comparative Study of China and Spain	6
If you look at the table… : Directives in conference presentations and university lectures	6
Iterative Self‐Branding: Chinese Language Teachers’ Understanding and Rationalization of Working on Online Tutoring Platforms	6
Effects of pronominal reference on the integration of syntactic and semantic information in second language processing	6
Issue Information	6
Triadic oral peer feedback: Does EFL learners’ L2 proficiency pairing play a role?	5
Group work dynamics and the role of leadership in face‐to‐face and online second language classes	5
An Investigation of the Relational Aspects of L2 Teacher Pride in the Turkish Context: A Retrodictive Qualitative Modeling Approach	5
Tracing the Signature Dynamics of EFL Learners’ L2 Motivation in an AI‐Enhanced Learning Context: A Retrodictive Study on College Students in China	5
Exploring Chinese EFL teachers’ perceptions of creativity and criticality in assessment practices: A qualitative study	5
Authenticity on Social Media: English Language Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences	5
Exploring the interplay of attitudes: The transfer of self‐efficacy and emotions between L1 Chinese and L2 English integrated writing contexts	5

Emotional labour in comforting strangers on social media	5
Which Theory Better Explains Multilinguals’ Translation Classroom Engagement: Situated Expectancy‐Value Theory or Control‐Value Theory?	5
Bridging or Breaking? A Systematic Review of How Generative AI Shapes Equity in Foreign Language Education	5
Conceptualizing L2 Teachers’ Blended Assessment Literacy (L2TBAL): A Scoping Review	5
People as Climate Action Motivators. A Survey‐Based Study of Wording and Arguments Suggested as Motivating for Individual Climate Action	5
The role of individual differences in second language pragmatics: A systematic review	5
“Research Learning Is a Never‐Ending Journey”: A Narrative Case Study of Interplay of Agency and Researcher Identity Construction	5
The Routledge handbook of language testing, 2nd edition Edited by GlennFulcher \| LukeHardingRoutledge, 2021. xviii + 656 pp. ISBN: 9781138385436	5
Exploring AI Literacy and AI‐Induced Emotions among Chinese University English Language Teachers: The Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM) Approach	5
Comparing Language Learners’ Engagement With Teacher and AI's Responses: Differences in Feed‐Back, Feed‐Up, and Feed‐Forward	5
A netnography of emergent ESOL researcher identity and development in a virtual community of practice	5
The Predictive Effects of Sociobiographical Variables, English Learning Confidence, and Digital Competence on AI‐Mediated Informal Digital Learning of English (AI‐IDLE)	5
Exploring Learners’ Perceptions of AI‐mediated informal digital Multilingual Learning: A Q‐Methodology Approach	5
Compiled by AILA ReN Coordinator	5
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Providing Pragmatics Training for L2 Teachers: A Sociocultural Perspective on Development of a Chinese Graduate Teaching Assistant	4
Issue Information	4
Patterns of contingency and non‐contingency in teacher–student scaffolding interactions: A case of novice and experienced language teachers	4
Can EFL teaching help revitalize the Aymara language and culture? Exploring EFL teachers' practices from Northern Chile	4
Learners’ Acceptance and Use of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI)‐Generated Content in AI‐Mediated Informal Digital Learning of English	4
How the Effects of Foreign Language Enjoyment, Anxiety, Boredom and Peace of Mind on Attitude/Motivation Change With Skill Level, Academic Achievement and Age: A Moderated Mediation Model	4
Integrating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies With Social Justice Language Education: Insights From a Field‐Based English Teacher Education Course	4
Exploring epistemological decentring in a language other than English classroom through pedagogical translanguaging	4
Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions	4
Metaphor, sustainability, transformation: Transdisciplinary perspectives. Edited by IanHughes, EdmondByrne, GerardMullally, ColinSage. Routledge, 2022. XIII + 264 pp. ISBN 9780367698553	4
Calm the Mind, Unlock the Voice: A Bayesian Longitudinal Analysis of Mindfulness and EFL Speaking Anxiety	4
Teaching and testing second language pragmatics and interaction: A practical guideCarstenRoeverRoutledge, 2022. 200 pp. £27.62 (ebook). ISBN: 9780429260766	4
Conducting second‐language reading research: A methodological guide by Elizabeth B.Bernhardt, Michael L.Kamil. eds. Routledge, 2022. xviii, 161 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐003‐15513‐3	4
The development of phrase‐frames in EFL learners’ essays: Variability, structures, and functions	4
“Contemporary standard” English policy and pseudo‐diversity among inner and outer circle assistant language teachers in Japan	4
Language Teacher Agency and Identity in Internationalized Higher Education: An Ecological Perspective	4
How Do Congruency and L2 Proficiency Impact the Processing of Chinese L2 Collocations? Evidence From Different L1 Activation States	4
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Compiled by AILA ReN coordinator	4
L2 Verb Use in English Verb‐Argument Constructions: A Network Science Approach	4
Issue Information	4
The efficacy of written corrective feedback: Searching for the best predictors	4
Viral discourse, Rodney H.Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2021. vi + 95 pp. $20.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781108986625	4
University students’ metaphors for Canadian multiculturalism: Diverse perceptions	4
TV serials and movies to boost intercultural communicative competence in Turkish EFL context	3
Emotional Impact on Professional Identity Development: The Case of Chinese English Language Textbook Writers	3
Becoming a researching subject in the era of neoliberalism: Toward a theory of ethics	3
Correction to “Exploring the Effect of Plain Terminology on Processing and Comprehension of Administrative Texts in Spanish: A Self‐Paced Reading Experiment”	3
Construction grammar: The structure of English by ThomasHoffmann ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2022, xi, 315 pp., US$120,00, ISBN 978‐1‐107‐01349‐0 Hardback	3
EFL Adolescents' Use of English in the Era of New Digital Media: An Empirical Investigation	3
A Revisit to Recast Efficacy in L2 Learning: An Alignment Perspective	3
Psycho‐Emotional Factors and Language Teachers’ Creativity, Identity, and Professional Development: An Introduction	3
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Imagined Communities of Chinese International Graduates in Australia and New Zealand	3
An Intercultural Framework for Assessing Sociopragmatic Competence in English Language Education: Evidence From the Chinese EFL Context	3
Does the word‐writing strategy in vocabulary learning increase learning outcomes or mislead learners into overestimation?	3
A Cross‐Cultural Comparison Between Chinese and Russian Social Media Self‐Praise	3
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Compiled by AILA ReN Coordinator, Glenda El Gamal, Khalifa University, [email protected]	3
Leveraging ChatGPT for L2 Writing: Teacher Cognition and the Impact of Professional Development	3
Linguistic (In)Directness in Complaints on an Online Discussion Forum for Chinese University Students	3
Motivation, Self‐Regulated R2W Strategy Use, and Their Relationship Patterns Among Different Writing Performance Groups	3
Making Arguments at Lower Proficiencies: Move–Bundle Connection in Korean University Students’ English Argumentative Writing	3
Learning environment matters for university EFL learners’ emotions and approaches to online learning technologies: A Chinese perspective	3
Data‐Driven Learning: A Linguistically Authentic Complement to Coursebooks for Foreign Language Learners	3
Stance in article highlights: The promotion of Covid‐19 research	3
Unveiling Supervisor‐Student Interactions: Patterns, Fluctuations, and Influencing Factors of Chinese Postgraduate EFL Learners’ Online Interaction With the Supervisor	3
Negotiating Emotional Entanglements: The Role of Religion and Identity in English and Arabic Medium Instruction	3
Chinese Researchers’ Orientation Toward Peer Review Through the Lens of Engagement	3
Teachers’ perceptions of implementing digital multimodal composing in tertiary classrooms: Voices from Chinese EFL teachers	3
Compiled by AILA ReN Coordinator, Glenda El Gamal, Khalifa University, [email protected]	3
Enhancing Verb‐Noun Collocation Learning among Chinese EFL Learners: A Comparison of Cognitive Linguistics‐Inspired, GenAI‐Assisted, and Traditional Instruction	3
Computational Sociolinguistics: An Emerging Multidisciplinary Research Area	3
Easing down foreign language listening anxiety: Metacognitive intervention and dialogic interaction	3
Teacher Support in Enhancing Willingness to Communicate: The Mediating Effect of Growth Language Mindset	3
Multilingualism for Epistemological Diversity and Epistemic Inclusion	3
Rethinking “Elaborate Equals Effective”: Unpacking the Impact of Feedback Complexity and Text Type on Learner Engagement With GenAI's Feedback	3
Introducing English for research publication purposes. JohnFlowerdew and PejmanHabibie. Routledge, 2022. p. 157. ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐33059‐0, $55 (hardcover)	3
Exploring Chinese EFL Teachers’ Perceptions About the Contribution of Positive Classroom Climate to Their Professional Vitality and Creativity: A Qualitative Study	3
Longitudinal Development of L2 Writing Cohesion in Continuation Tasks	3
Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland	3