OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Issues in Language Planning 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
English only or more?: Language ideologies of international students in an EMI university in multilingual Hong Kong	25
English-medium education reform in Kazakhstan: comparative study of educational change across two contexts in one country	23
A critique of Taiwan’s bilingual education policy through a ROAD-MAPPING of teacher experiences	17
Linguistic imperialism, English, and development: implications for Colombia	14
‘Home away from home’: understanding Chinese parents’ ideological beliefs and involvement in international school students’ language learning	11
Understanding China’s LOTE learners’ perceptions and choices of LOTE(s) and English learning: a linguistic market perspective	11
English as a medium of instruction in Kazakhstani higher education: a case study	9
Negotiating English-only gatekeepers: teachers’ agency through a public sphere lens	8
Bilingual daycares in the Netherlands: an analysis of the implementation of bilingual input and underlying ideologies	8
Shifting ecologies of family language planning: Hungarian Australian families during COVID-19	8
Language learners as invisible planners: a case study of an Arabic language program in a Chinese university	8
The gendered migrant experience: a study of family language policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali community, Bristol	8
Commodification of the Chinese language: investigating language ideology in the Chinese complementary schools’ online discourse	7
Multiscalar research on family language policy and planning in China: commentary	7
On the outside, looking in: learning community languages and Scotland’s 1 + 2 Language Strategy	7
Participation and deliberation in language policy: the case of gender-neutral language	7
Languages for learning: a framework for implementing India’s multilingual language-in-education policy	7
Policy from below: STEM teachers’ response to EMI policy and policy-making in the mainstream schools in Kazakhstan	6
‘Building a new public idea about language’?: Multilingualism and language learning in the post-Brexit UK	6
Conscripted into thinking of scarce, selective, privatized, and precarious seats in dual language bilingual education: the choice discourse of mercenary exclusivity	6
Reproducing inequality while celebrating diversity: an ethnographic study of international students’ EMI learning experiences in China	6
The neoliberal structures of English in Japanese higher education: applying Bernstein’s pedagogic device	6
Exploring family language policymaking of internal migrant families in contemporary China: negotiating habitus, capital and the social field	6
Negotiating hegemonies in language policy: ideological synergies in media recontextualizations of audit culture	6
Supporting speakers of community languages: a case study of policy and practice in primary schools	5

Characterising language policy and planning in international organisations: ASEAN insights	5
How stakeholders see the implementation of language education policy: a Q-study	5
Language, hospitality, and internationalisation: exploring university life with the ethical and political acts of university administrators	5
Language planning for diversity in foreign language education	5
Discourses shaping the language-in-education policy and foreign language education in Nepal: an intersectional perspective	5
From policy to practice: how schools implement German language support policy in Austria	4
When the linguistic market meets the tea business: language attitudes, ideologies and linguistic entrepreneurship in the Blang community in China	4
Teaching in borrowed spaces: community language schools and educational equity in New South Wales, Australia	4
Russian language teachers’ professional agency against the backdrop of theNew National Teaching Quality Standardsin China: an ecological perspective	4
An empirical validation study of Spolsky's language policy model	4
Second language learning and socioeconomic development: interrogating anglonormativity from the perspective of pre-service modern language professionals	4
Whither the Irish Language Act? Language policies in Northern Ireland	4
Minority language rights to education in international, regional, and domestic regulations and practices: the case of Frisian in the Netherlands	4
Language ideologies and linguistic entrepreneurship in inter-Asian mobility: voices from international students at Chinese universities	4
Language ideological landscapes for students in university language policies: inclusion, exclusion, or hierarchy	4
Language planning and policies in Russia through a historical perspective	3
Family language policy in Indigenous and bilingual communities: case studies of Nahuatl-speaking caregivers in Mexico	3
Teachers’ understanding of the importance of students’ mother tongue(s) in Qatar’s international English-medium primary schools: findings from Q method research	3
Shadow education, Bourdieu, & meritocracy: towards an understanding of Juku and inequality in Japan	3
A tale of two cafés: spatial production as de facto language policy	3
Life sciences reading material in vernacular: lessons from developing a bilingual (IsiZulu and English) book on South African frogs	3
State policymakers on Latvian, English, and Russian in higher education in Latvia: language ideological debates through the lens of argumentation analysis	2
A quantitative analysis of the language policy processes in early childhood professionals’ advice on multilingual parenting	2
Gaps between policy aspirations and enactment: graduate students’ struggles with academic English amidst a turbulent transition to the EMI environment in Kazakhstani universities	2
Language as a resource: public sector discourse on the role of regional minority and community languages in integration and employment	2
Essential components in planning multilingual education: a case study of Cambodia’s Multilingual Education National Action Plan	2
Suggesting a policy-driven approach to validation in the context of the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK)	2
Hungarian as a minority and majority language in different language policy contexts	2
Language management and its impact: the policies and practices of Confucius Institutes Language management and its impact: the policies and practices of Confucius Institutes	2
Learning the language of social environment: the case of Hungarian in Vojvodina (Serbia)	2
Sustaining and revitalizing Indigenous languages in Oklahoma public schools: educational sovereignty in language policy and planning	2
Language policy and governmentality: Chanting the Chinese Classics	2
School leaders as projective agents: online spaces for heritage languages during COVID-19	1
Educators’ agency in implementing English-medium-instruction in Chinese higher education: a cultural-historical perspective	1
Instructors’ navigation and appropriation of gender-inclusive Spanish at a U.S. University	1
Teacher agency and the implementation of CEFR-like policies for English for tourism and hospitality: insights from local vocational high schools in Indonesia	1
Grassroots policymaking in practice: including heritage languages in the critical connections project through agency, activism, and alternative voices	1
Strategic management of Welsh language training on a macro and micro level	1
Language policy and planning for heritage language maintenance: a scoping review	1
Recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language: context, scope and mechanisms	1
Legal status and regulation of the German language in the Federal Republic of Germany	1
Slogans as a policy distractor: a case of ‘washback’ discourse in English language testing reforms in Japan	1
Language policy and planning in the teaching of native languages in Pakistan	1
Micro level language planning, agency, and ICT in community language schools: before, during and after the pandemic	1
English as a subtle technology of distraction in postcolonial contexts: undoing linguistic colonialism by linguistic coloniality	1
Danish language legislation and de facto language policies	1
Language ideologies and practices in flux: the case of an Italian-Chinese transnational family	1
The politics of distraction in English-medium higher education across three global settings: a collaborative autoethnography	1
Greek heritage language teachers as emergency grassroots policy makers: reconciling learner centred responses with textbook heavy pedagogies during COVID-19 lockdown	1
‘We are Indigenous people, not primitive people.’: the role of popular music in Indigenous language revitalization in Taiwan	1

Racialization and English learning: the experiences of Nepali secondary school students in Hong Kong	1
Individual agency in language-in-education policy: a story of Chinese heritage language schools in multilingual Brussels	1
Common sense and resistance: EMI policy and practice in Indonesian universities	1
The native speaker: a border marker of the standard, the nation, and variation	1