OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language and Intercultural Communication 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	27
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	21
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	20
Flows of 氣 (Qi): reimagining language as living ecology through Chinese calligraphy and intercultural co-creation	14
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	14
Introducing language and intercultural communication (3rd edition)	13
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	12
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion: current issues and future challenges	11
Plurilingual and intercultural education as educational activism for social transformation: perspectives, pathways, and possibilities	10
Challenges of teaching intercultural competence and values	10
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	10
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	10
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	9
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	9
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	9
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	9
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	9
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	9
Fighting is teaching: activism, teaching and perspectives on plurilingual education from the lands of Chaco	8
Explorations in digital interculturality: language, culture and postdigital practices	8
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	8
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	8
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	8
From initial encounter to lasting bonds: influential factors in intercultural friendship between Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese University Students	8
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	8

Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	8
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	7
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	7
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	7
Challenges of translanguaging between school and online tutoring: agency under constraint in the learning of a Russian-speaking ethnic Korean migrant	7
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	7
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	7
Faith, displacement, and intergenerational relationships: a communication accommodation theory approach to the Ethiopian Orthodox diaspora	6
Exploring tutors’ communicative strategies in plurilingual academic contexts: a multilayered analysis	6
Biculturalism in (inter)action in Aotearoa New Zealand: an Interactional Sociolinguistics analysis of workplace practice in a context of conscious learning	6
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	6
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	5
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	5
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	5
Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language: affect, embodiment and materiality in times of ‘crisis’	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	5
Virtual Exchange as an educational tool in contexts of conflict: potential and challenges	5
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	5
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	5
‘It’s a matter of personal attitudes rather than speakers’ nativeness’: Korean professionals’ perceptions of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF)	5
Quality and equity in education: a practical guide to the council of Europe vision of education for plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizenship	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	5
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	5
When the ‘language of the enemy’ is also one’s own: re-making multilingual selves in times of war	5
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse	4
Photography as a methodological third-space: student knowledge about their material and embodied place-making	4
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	4
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	4
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	4
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	4
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	4
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	4
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	4
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	4
Co-creating plurilingual and intercultural community-based learning projects for migrant women	4
Decolonising plurilingualism in contexts of postcolonial migration: crossed perspectives from France and England	4
Chair’s notes	4
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	4
Bands of Activist Poetry: visual kindness cards based on children’s rights thinking	4
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	3
The multiplicity and dynamics of the interpreter’s roles in mediating cultural differences: a qualitative inquiry based on an international collaborative teacher professional development programme	3
Editorial	3
Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	3
Taiji 松 ( Song ) practice: realizing an embodied openness for re-understanding self and other	3
Imagining and experiencing hospitalities and interculturalities in a mobile world	3

Imagining and experiencing hospitality during study abroad	3
Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	3
‘Çin değilim, Türk'üm. Ben Kazak!’: raciolinguistic constraints in a multilingual life	3
The Politics of Researching Multilingually	3
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	3
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	3
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	3
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	3
Editorial	3
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	2
Banal nationalism and conversational cosmopolitanism: the potential of online language education for intercultural communication	2
Rethinking student experience through temporal positioning	2
Navigating identities: between belonging and understanding	2
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	2
Hospitality as a model of interreligious communication	2
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	2
Every character tells a story: dynamic identity negotiation in the Chinese naming practices of adult L2 learners	2
Intercultural communication in collaborative translation: language, identity, and social inclusion in Hong Kong	2
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	2
Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world	2
Fostering transformative intercultural engagement in Australian higher education: insights from Spanish and Latin American Studies	2
Words apart: unravelling the language barrier plight of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong	2
Global fitness for global people: How to manage and leverage cultural diversity at work	2
Chinese EFL university teachers’ perceptions of culture teaching and their pedagogical practices	2
Breaking barriers: uniting Turkish and Greek students through eTwinning collaboration for empathy, understanding, and language anxiety relief	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	2
The Routledge handbook of critical interculturality in communication and education	2
Addressing issues of (linguistic) vulnerability in researching UK asylum-related advice contexts: reflections on practice	2
A pre-mobility approach: investigating the role of virtual exchange in study abroad preparation	2
Editorial	2
‘Identity’ is not only about human relations: the relevance of human-to-non-human interaction in ‘identity’ articulation	2
Linguistic and sociocultural strategies in a transnational context: Chinese-speaking sojourners’ multidimensional adjustments in the UK	2
AI and the (im)possibility of intercultural dialogue: epistemological implications of AI use in intercultural communication	2
Plurilingual and intercultural pedagogy for all in higher education	2
On the interculturality of Konglish: language labels, perceiving subjects, and metadiscursive regimes	1
Transcending the classroom: (de)stigmatising foreign cultures through foreign language teaching	1
‘It’s no longer “that black woman”; it’s “that woman”’: language in the dynamics of vulnerability and resilience	1
‘We are not the same but feel like we are the same group’: international students’ language choice and identity construction at a Chinese university	1
My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language	1
Chair's Notes	1
Towards a plurilingual curriculum: fostering pluricultural communication in the digital age	1
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	1
Rethinking family language policy through translanguaging space	1
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme	1
Interculturality in higher education: putting critical approaches into practice	1
Idéologie croisée entre la France et l’Espagne sur la diversité linguistique en milieu scolaire	1
Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia	1
Beyond the ‘similar other’: historicising and mediating the visibility of African housewives in rural China	1
Editorial	1
Developing symbolic competence for intercultural learning of advanced EFL learners through critical incidents	1
Applied ethnopoetic analysis, poetic inquiry and a practice of vulnerability: uncovering and undoing the vulnerabilities of refugees and asylum seekers seeking access to Higher Education	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	1
Constrained but creative: Yi undergraduates’ perspectives on heritage language and culture in China	1
The campaign for bodily autonomy and belonging in Grenoble, France: resisting epistemic violence, media discourse and othering	1
Liberating language education	1
A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China	1
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	1
Intercultural communication, faith and impression management: former Muslims’ engagement with social media	1
Taking innovative humanising pedagogy towards Thirdness: sustaining the development of intercultural competence	1
Learning by contesting: intercultural responsibility through sustainability-driven higher education	1
Digital humanities pedagogy in action: insights from intercultural telecollaboration exploring inclusiveness of university campuses through art	1
Navigating language, culture, and futures: Asian international students’ self-formation in China’s higher education	1
‘It would be better if you had a UK degree’: exploring the experiences of highly-skilled refugee women in the UK	1
Sociolinguistic aspects of integrating within the space of the ‘Other’: the case of Arab students in Jewish schools	1
Promoting peace: colectivas, art, and cultural injustice in Mexico	1
‘Small stories’, big meanings: discursive and emotional constructions of intercultural life among Chinese students in the UK	1
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction	1
Acculturation in a multicultural classroom: perspectives within the yin-yang metaphor framework	1
‘So do you hear me? And “how” do you hear me?’ Perceptions of lecturers on students from Portuguese-speaking African countries in Portuguese higher education	1
Constrained multilingualism	1
English is ‘the language everybody shares’ but it is ‘my native language’: language ideologies and interpersonal relationships among students in internationalizing higher education	1
Challenges and opportunities in implementing intercultural education in higher education: the perceptions and practice of foreign language teachers in a Chinese university	1
A living curriculum for language education: towards a plurilingual and intercultural orientation	1
Negotiating constrained multilingualism: some reflections and recommendations	1