OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of ELT Journal is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Translanguaging as a political stance: implications for English language education	87
An agenda for well-being in ELT: an ecological perspective	75
Activity-induced boredom in online EFL classes	68
English medium instruction and the English language practitioner	59
English medium higher education in China: challenges and ELT support	34
Critical language pedagogy: an introduction to principles and values	34
Critical antiracist pedagogy in ELT	30
Coping with COVID-19-related online English teaching challenges: teacher educators’ suggestions	20
Teacher strategies in implementing English medium instruction	20
Emotional labour and professional development in ELT	19
Towards a Global Englishes-aware National English Curriculum of China	18
Teachers’ digital technology use after a period of online teaching	18
Insights into emergency remote teaching in EFL	16
Synchronous video computer-mediated communication in English language teaching	16
Rethinking the roles of ELT in English-medium education in multilingual university settings: an introduction	14
Addressing LGBTQ erasure through literature in the ELT classroom	12
Multimodality	12
Exploring LGBTQ+ pedagogy in Japanese university classrooms	12
Focusing on ESOL teachers’ well-being during COVID-19 and beyond	12
Positive Psychology in Second and Foreign Language Education	11
Self-efficacy	11
Changing views of English through study abroad as teacher training	10
Enhancing long-term learner engagement through project-based learning	10
Introduction: comprehensive sexuality education in ELT	10
Cross-fertilisation, not bifurcation, of EMI and EAP	10

Moving beyond ‘infancy’: towards a cross-fertilization between EMI and EAP scholarship	10
The challenges of EMI for art and design students in the UAE	9
Translanguaging and the shifting sands of language education	9
ESL students’ reverse linguistic stereotyping of English teachers	8
A critical discussion of inclusive approaches to sexualities in ELT	8
Translingual arts-based practices for language learners	8
Understanding students’ motivation in L2 collaborative writing	7
The challenges of English medium instruction for subject lecturers: a shared viewpoint	7
Pronunciation in course books: English as a lingua franca perspective	7
Teacher agency and washback: insights from classrooms in rural Bangladesh	7
Decolonization as pedagogy: a praxis of ‘becoming’ in ELT	7
Enhancing EFL students’ participation through translanguaging	7
Translanguaging options for note-taking in EAP and EMI	6
WhatsApp as part of an EFL programme: participation and interaction	6
Helping English language teachers become gender aware	6
Flipped primary EFL classrooms: impact, feasibility, and potential	6
Children’s and teachers’ views on digital games in the EFL classroom	6
Still taboo? Using machine translation for low-level EFL writers	6
Digital multimodal composing in English language teaching	6
Phonetic symbols vs keywords in perceptual training: the learners’ views	5
Affinity and the classroom: informal and formal L2 learning	5
Developing the multilingual agenda in EMI higher educational institutions	5
Freire’s problem-posing model: critical pedagogy and young learners	5
Decentring ELT: teacher associations as agents of change	5
Learner-centredness	5
Incorporating reading circles into a task-based EAP reading scheme	5
Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms	5
Learner-initiated exploratory practice: revisiting curiosity	5
Teaching pronunciation: toward intelligibility and comprehensibility	4
Do students’ oral corrective feedback beliefs matter to teachers?	4
Mapping a way forward: toward a shared EMI and EAP research agenda	4
Translanguaging: a paradigm shift for ELT theory and practice	4
Innovation in ELT revisited	4
Engaging in pedagogical translanguaging in a Shanghai EFL high school class	4
English-medium instruction (EMI)	4
Knowledge co-construction in professional reading group discussions	4
Virtual exchange in teacher education: focus on L2 writing	4
A plea to stop debating and erasing queer lives in ELT	4
Does planning before writing help? Options for pre-task planning in the teaching of writing	4
Comprehensive sexuality education: an Argentinean experience	4
Design-based research approach for teacher learning: a case study from Singapore	4
ELT teachers’ agency for wellbeing	4
Trust and translanguaging in English-medium instruction	4
Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes: Teaching and Learning in International Contexts	3
Tertiary-level STEM and EMI: where EFL and content meet to potentiate each other	3
Engaging students in dialogic interactions through questioning	3
Social robots for English language teaching	3
The representation of source use in academic writing textbooks	3
Teaching English by teaching about race in Brazil	3
Student engagement with digital video production	3

Towards the new construct of academic English in the digital age	3
Research methods in applied linguistics and language education: current considerations, recent innovations, and future directions	3
CEFR and the ELT practitioner: empowerment or enforcement?	3
Motivational dynamics in learning English in Second Life	3
Organizing talk in group speaking tests: learning from high-scoring students	3
From learners to users—errors, innovations, and universals	3
Exploring English as a ‘glocal language’ in online EMEMUS	3
Transepistemic English language teaching for sustainable futures	3
Qualities of good homework activities: teachers’ perceptions	3
Synchronous computer-mediated communication as a peer observation tool	2
Picturebooks in the Classroom: Perspectives on Life Skills, Sustainable Development and Democracy & Citizenship	2
A self-produced podcast to support EFL learners in Japan	2
Low attendance on a peer tutoring scheme for English language learners	2
Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice	2
Decolonizing classroom discourse: insights from interactional research	2
Linguistic landscapes tasks in Global Englishes teacher education	2
Communicative data-driven learning: a two-year pilot study	2
Training multilingual English language teachers: challenges for higher education	2
Supporting part-time ELT faculty in a Japanese university	2
Erratum to: Translanguaging as a political stance: implications for English language education	2
Decolonizing ELT methods through critical thematic units	2
Addressing automatic speech recognition for ELT from a Global Englishes perspective	2
Exploring L2 teacher motivation to participate in a theatre festival	2
‘Something new and different’: student perceptions of content and language integrated learning	2
Centring on students’ needs by engaging in translanguaging shifts	2
The impact of corrective feedback on English articles	2
From language to function: developing self- and peer-assessment tools	2
Pre-primary teacher talk: L1 use across different activity references	2
The pandemic as a catalyst for teacher and student well-being	2
Unravelling translanguaging: a critical appraisal	2
Practising critical visual literacy through redesign in ELT classrooms	2
Navigating the digital turn: recent books on technological integration in ELT	2
Teaching positive psychology lessons in an intensive English program	2
Teachers’ pedagogical intentions while using motivational strategies	2
‘The effect is/isn’t significant!’: statistical evidence and ELT	2
Mentoring Teachers to Research Their Classrooms: a practical handbook	2
Teacher and learner well-being in collaborative classroom research	2
Enacting a queer pedagogy in the composition classroom	2
Exploratory action research: experiences of Nepalese EFL teachers	2
A response to Moore: challenging queer erasure, not erasing it	1
Mobile instant messaging for ELT	1
The potential of complaining as reflective practice in mentoring	1
Language teacher wellbeing: an individual–institutional pact	1
Rapport	1
TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era	1
Using metaphor elicitation with pre-primary children learning English	1
Critical literacy supplementary materials in high school EFL	1
Using learning journals to promote learner autonomy	1
An online book club for ESOL learners	1
If we could just suggest: a response to Graham Burton	1
Does compensation strategy instruction work? An action research study	1
Peacebuilding in Language Education. Innovations in Theory and Practice	1
Fluency revisited	1
Languages in the primary classroom: teachers’ views and practices	1
Towards English language learners’ wellbeing: Contributing factors and stressors	1
Rehabilitating the ELT conditional system	1
Addressing sociolinguistic challenges in teaching spoken grammar	1
Generative artificial intelligence and ELT	1
ESOL classes as trauma-sensitive physical spaces	1
The sale of IELTS testing in India: motivations and implications	1
Teacher talk in EAP classes: transition to post-liminal understanding	1
Exploring teacher classroom behavior and wellbeing from the student perspective	1
Implementing a reading-to-learn programme in EFL bilingual teaching	1
A response to Moore	1
Writing conferences via an online meeting platform	1
Multilingualism in Lebanon: bridging reality to practice	1
Towards decolonizing L2 writing pedagogy: translingual and transmodal resources	1
Textbook analysis: the case of the first Nicaraguan ELT series	1
Guided by images—Chilean novice teachers’ visions of themselves	1
IATEFL during the Pandemic: Issues and Perspectives	1
How useful is it to teach affixes in intermediate classes?	1
Teacher perspectives on addressing environmental issues in ELT	1
Language teacher cognition: a sociocultural perspective	1
Digital literacy as ideological practice	1
English pronunciation teaching and learning for the world that speaks it	1
Life satisfaction and L2 engagement in adolescents	1
Code-switching and translanguaging: why they have a lot in common	1
Decolonizing business English: exploring classroom ideologies	1
English beyond the pale: the language of outsiders	1