OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Language Teaching Research is 22. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Teacher enthusiasm and students’ social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes	187
Engagement in language learning: A systematic review of 20 years of research methods and definitions	166
The wellbeing of language teachers in the private sector: An ecological perspective	73
Beyond the threshold: Exploring English language proficiency, linguistic challenges, and academic language skills of Japanese students in an English medium instruction programme	71
Boredom in online English language classes: Mediating variables and coping strategies	67
Foreign language learning boredom and enjoyment: The effects of learner variables and teacher variables	51
Classroom environment and willingness to communicate in English: The mediating role of emotions experienced by university students in China	45
Willingness to communicate in the L2 about meaningful photos: Application of the pyramid model of WTC	41
A longitudinal study of foreign language anxiety and enjoyment	41
Individual differences in self-regulated learning: Exploring the nexus of motivational beliefs, self-efficacy, and SRL strategies in EFL writing	40
Understanding language teacher wellbeing: An ESM study of daily stressors and uplifts	38
How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: A mixed modelling longitudinal investigation	37
The flipped classroom in second language learning: A meta-analysis	36
Towards an understanding of translanguaging in EMI teacher education classrooms	34
Language achievement predicts anxiety and not the other way around: A cross-lagged panel analysis approach	30
A longitudinal study of foreign language enjoyment and boredom: A latent growth curve modeling	28
The affordances of iPad for constructing a technology-mediated space in Hong Kong English medium instruction secondary classrooms: A translanguaging view	27
Exploring fluctuations in the relationship between learners’ positive emotional engagement and their interactional behaviours	27
Representation of cultures and communities in a global ELT textbook: A diachronic content analysis	26
The effects of a metacognitive intervention on lower-proficiency EFL learners’ listening comprehension and listening self-efficacy	23
Effects of reading strategy instruction in English as a second language on students’ academic reading comprehension	23
To what extent are foreign language anxiety and foreign language enjoyment related to L2 fluency? An investigation of task-specific emotions and breakdown and speed fluency in an oral task	22