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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	46
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	24
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	23
Freire’s longevity in intercultural education: entangled histories from Colombian and Mexican higher education	21
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	21
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	19
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	17
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	15
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	14
Editorial	12
Editorial	11
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	10
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	10
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	10
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	9
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	9
News production and intercultural communication at the crossroads of disciplines	9
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	8
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	8
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	8
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	7
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	7
Intercultural universities in Mexico: decolonizing the intercultural philosophy of education	7
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	7
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	6

Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	6
Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	6
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	6
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	6
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	5
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	5
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	5
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	5
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	4
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	4
‘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)	4
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	4
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	4
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	4
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	4
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	4
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	3
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	3
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	3
Language as Symbolic Power	3
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	3
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	3
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	3
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	3
Well-educated, middle-class Chinese immigrants in Canada	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	3
Chair’s notes	3
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	2
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	2
Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	2
Global fitness for global people: How to manage and leverage cultural diversity at work	2
Hospitality as a model of interreligious communication	2
(Re)existence in times of de-existence: political–pedagogical notes to Paulo Freire	2
Chinese EFL university teachers’ perceptions of culture teaching and their pedagogical practices	2
‘Identity’ is not only about human relations: the relevance of human-to-non-human interaction in ‘identity’ articulation	2
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	2
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	2
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	2
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	2
Editorial	2
The Politics of Researching Multilingually	2
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	2
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	2

Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	2
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	2
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	2
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	2
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	2
Addressing issues of (linguistic) vulnerability in researching UK asylum-related advice contexts: reflections on practice	2
Banal nationalism and conversational cosmopolitanism: the potential of online language education for intercultural communication	2
It … he [the Moon] didn’t look tasty! Transnational children’s use of metaphors as a transcultural tool to gain symbolic power in family discourse	2
Editorial	2
Freire's Pedagogy of communication, action and transformation: an interview with José Eustáquio Romão	2
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	1
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	1
Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world	1
‘You know what we Latinos are like’: intragroup evaluations and relations among outsourced Latin American workers in London	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
The campaign for bodily autonomy and belonging in Grenoble, France: resisting epistemic violence, media discourse and othering	1
Taking innovative humanising pedagogy towards Thirdness: sustaining the development of intercultural competence	1
Interculturality in higher education: putting critical approaches into practice	1
Cosmopolitan translation in multilingual cities: a Macao experience	1
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme	1
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	1
Beyond the mother tongue: language as cultural capital in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers	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
‘Coming here you should speak Chinese’: the multimodal construction of interculturality in YouTube videos	1
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	1
Promoting peace: colectivas, art, and cultural injustice in Mexico	1
Challenges and opportunities in implementing intercultural education in higher education: the perceptions and practice of foreign language teachers in a Chinese university	1
Pre-service teachers’ translingual negotiation strategies at work: telecollaboration between France, Turkey, and the USA	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
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction	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
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	1
Breaking barriers: uniting Turkish and Greek students through eTwinning collaboration for empathy, understanding, and language anxiety relief	1
Intercultural communication, faith and impression management: former Muslims’ engagement with social media	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	1
Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural	1
Sociolinguistic aspects of integrating within the space of the ‘Other’: the case of Arab students in Jewish schools	1
My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language	1
From ivory tower to social arena: critical approaches to cultural identity in the public sphere	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