OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism is 4. 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
Vocabulary and reading speed in the majority language are affected by maternal language proficiency and language exposure at home: a study of language minority bilingual children in Italy	33
Unilateral translanguaging: teachers’ language use, perceptions, and experience in a Portuguese-English two-way immersion program	24
The impact of CLIL on the L2 French and L1 Dutch proficiency of Flemish secondary school pupils	22
Influences of bilingual input on English vocabulary size and academic outcomes: a large-scale longitudinal study following children in Australia from five to ten years	22
Cognitive gains and socioeconomic status in early second language acquisition in immersion and EFL learning settings	22
Bilingual development in childhood (elements in child development)	20
Parental evaluation of ‘success’ and its influence on the implementation of bilingual education programmes in Australian primary settings	19
Linguistic interactions at nursery school and language acquisition of toddlers from low-income bilingual immigrant families and monolingual families	18
Maternal heritage language proficiency and child bilingual heritage language learning	18
Transitioning from secondary school to an English-medium transnational university in China: a longitudinal study of student self-efficacy and motivational beliefs	17
Paternal agency in heritage language maintenance in Australia: Polish fathers in action	17
Identifying difficulties and best practices in catering to diversity in CLIL: instrument design and validation	16
Translanguaging pedagogies in a Mandarin-English dual language bilingual education classroom: contextualised learning from teacher-researcher collaboration	15
Inclusion and diversity in bilingual education: a European comparative study	15
The partially overlapping nature of inhibitory control and preparatory control during language and task switching	15
Developing and evaluating quality bilingual practices in higher education	13
Is there a multilingual advantage in gender agreement processing? Evidence from self-paced reading	13
A replication study to assess CLIL effects on second language learning in Germany: more than selection and preparation effects?	13
Impact of emergency eLearning in a multilingual context with a minority language: how has the absence of school affected the use of Basque, English, and Spanish in the Basque context?	13
Translanguaging and product-oriented drama: an integrated pedagogical approach for language learning and literacy development	13
Exploring the role of executive functions in Chinese-English bilinguals’ emotional word comprehension during language switching	12
An empirical investigation of Spolsky’s framework applied to family language policy	12
Two-way immersion promotes additional language learning: performance of bilingual sixth-grade students in English as a third language	12
Developing cognate awareness through pedagogical translanguaging	12
Bridging the ‘dual lives’: school socialization of young bi/multilinguals in the eyes of EFL teachers	12

Code-switching is metaphor, translanguaging is metonymy: a transdisciplinary view of bilingualism and its role in education	11
Language dominance and multilingual word learning	11
Comprehension skills of Chinese-English dual language learners: relations across languages and associations with language richness at home	11
The mysteries of bilingualism: unresolved issues	11
Exploring language in global contexts Exploring language in global contexts , edited by Jeffrey Gil and Sky Marsen, London, Routledge, 2022, 152 pp., $34.36 (paperback),	10
Multiliteracies for multilingual learners: the MultiSemiotic Architecture Framework	10
(Re)imagining translanguaging pedagogies through teacher-researcher collaboration	10
Multilingualism and speed: challenges and issues in applied linguistics	10
Curriculum integrated language teaching: CLIL in practice	10
Examining sources of language production switch costs amongst Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals	10
‘Who would have thought that I’d ever know that!’: subject-specific vocabulary in CLIL student interactions	10
Teacher education for inclusive bilingual contexts: collective reflection to support emergent bilinguals with and without disabilities	9
Analysis of the fostering and constraining factors for learners’ participation in the Spanish Heritage Education Program ALCE in Germany: proposals for improvement	9
Teaching responsive to play and linguistic diversity in early childhood education: considerations on theoretical grounds	9
Radicalizing literacies and languaging: a framework toward dismantling the Mono-Mainstream Assumption	9
Evidence for the interdependence hypothesis: a longitudinal study of biliteracy development in a CLIL/bilingual setting	9
Beyond description: reconceptualizing the (trans)language(ing) among international students	8
Attention to diversity in bilingual education: student and teacher perspectives in Spain	8
Translanguaging: a pedagogy of heteroglossic hope	8
Third space of the home: transnational Chinese families’ English home literacy and language learning	8
When immigrant and regional minority languages coexist: linguistic authority and integration in multilingual linguistic acculturation	8
Multilingual development through study abroad in multilingual Asian universities: a case study of a Vietnamese international student in Taiwan	7
L2 and L3 motivational systems and their interactions: a study of Tibetan-Chinese-English trilingual learners	7
EMI as a performative technology of acceleration in higher education contexts: academics and administrators’ perspectives	7
Contributions of code-based and oral language skills to Arabic and English reading comprehension in Arabic-English bilinguals in the elementary school years	7
Languages and social cohesion: a transdisciplinary literature review	7
Scaffolding for multilingual learners in elementary and secondary schools	7
Multiliteracy as human capital in first-generation adult immigrants in Germany	7
Attention to diversity in German CLIL classrooms: multi-perspective research on students’ and teachers’ perceptions	7
Producing cognitive discourse functions in disciplinary Basque writing: developmental patterns across secondary education and L1 profiles	7
The ideological foundations of Breton and Lower Sorbian language revitalization through education and their consequences for new speakers	6
Qualitative Research Topics in Language Teacher Education	6
Linguistic predictors of academic achievement amongst international students and home students in higher education: introduction	6
Teacher Education for inclusive bilingual contexts: collective reflection to support emergent bilinguals with and without disabilities	6
Language activation in dual language schools: the development of subject-verb agreement in the English and Spanish of heritage speaker children	6
Uncovering monolingual ideologies embedded in South Korean multicultural education	6
Working memory and multilingualism: balanced language proficiency predicts verbal working memory	6
The impact of language brokering frequency and psychological health on academic motivation and learning strategies of university students in the United States	6
Are there developmental patterns in emergent bilingual children’s English letter-name knowledge?	5
Problematizing translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical strategy in deaf education	5
Translanguaging drama: embracing learners’ perezhivanie for embodiment of the repertoire	5
Examining the effects of teacher collaboration on student learning in a CLIL classroom	5
Supporting social strengths amid emerging bilingualism: effects of Word Generation on social perspective taking in English learners’ writing	5
Parental beliefs, language practices and language outcomes in Spanish-English bilingual children	5
Order in the chaos. Nurses’ perceptions of multilingual families in a society marked by a monoglossic ideology	5
The additive effect of metalinguistic awareness in third or additional language acquisition	5
The effects of ethnomathematics education on student outcomes: The JADENKÄ program in the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca, Panama	5
Task effects and the yes-bias in heritage language bilingualism	5
Bilingual children’s vocabulary skills at 5 years predict reading comprehension development within, not across, languages	4
Parafoveal orthographic processing in bilingual reading	4

Narratives by bilingual children: a tale of strengths and growth during kindergarten	4
Family language planning strategies among Australian families of Arabic-speaking background	4
Language learner well-being in heritage language learning: conceptualisation, measurement, and a pathway to flourishing	4
Spaces of dissonance in dual language: teacher sense-making of a new biliteracy strategy	4
Remaking multilingualism: a translanguaging approach	4
The role of L1 self-efficacy in L2 reading comprehension: an exploration of L1–L2 cross-linguistic transfer	4
Learning Māori in the workplace: non-Māori learners’ assessment of the value of te reo	4
Vietnamese Language, Education and Change in and Outside Vietnam	4
‘Speak English!’: social acceleration and language learning in the workplace	4
Some bilingual couples speak lingua francas: personal pronoun indexicality in the light of positioning theory	4
Identifying the assets of emergent bilingual middle school students’ writing: opportunities to validate students’ linguistic repertoires and identities	4
Supporting bilingualism during the COVID-19 pandemic: dual language bilingual education teachers’ experiences and challenges	4
Research on teaching and learning English in under-resourced contexts	4