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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	57
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	30
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion: current issues and future challenges	28
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	27
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	23
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	20
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	19
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	18
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	17
Editorial	16
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	15
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	13
Editorial	12
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	11
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	11
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	10
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	9
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	9
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	9
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	8
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	8
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	7
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	7
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	7
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	7

Fighting is teaching: activism, teaching and perspectives on plurilingual education from the lands of Chaco	6
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	6
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	6
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	6
From initial encounter to lasting bonds: influential factors in intercultural friendship between Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese University Students	6
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	6
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	6
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	6
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	6
Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language: affect, embodiment and materiality in times of ‘crisis’	6
Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	6
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	5
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	5
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	5
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	5
When the ‘language of the enemy’ is also one’s own: re-making multilingual selves in times of war	5
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	4
Quality and equity in education: a practical guide to the council of Europe vision of education for plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizenship	4
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	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
Photography as a methodological third-space: student knowledge about their material and embodied place-making	4
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	4
Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse	4
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	4
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Language as Symbolic Power	3
Chair’s notes	3
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	3
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	3
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	3
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	3
Bands of Activist Poetry: visual kindness cards based on children’s rights thinking	3
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	3
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	3
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	3
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	3
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	3
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	3
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	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

Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	3
Breaking barriers: uniting Turkish and Greek students through eTwinning collaboration for empathy, understanding, and language anxiety relief	2
Global fitness for global people: How to manage and leverage cultural diversity at work	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	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
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	2
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	2
Hospitality as a model of interreligious communication	2
Editorial	2
‘Identity’ is not only about human relations: the relevance of human-to-non-human interaction in ‘identity’ articulation	2
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	2
Taiji 松 ( Song ) practice: realizing an embodied openness for re-understanding self and other	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
Chinese EFL university teachers’ perceptions of culture teaching and their pedagogical practices	2
‘Coming here you should speak Chinese’: the multimodal construction of interculturality in YouTube videos	2
Editorial	2
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	2
The Politics of Researching Multilingually	2
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	2
From ivory tower to social arena: critical approaches to cultural identity in the public sphere	1
Challenges and opportunities in implementing intercultural education in higher education: the perceptions and practice of foreign language teachers in a Chinese university	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
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
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	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
Promoting peace: colectivas, art, and cultural injustice in Mexico	1
Functions of small talk in healthcare interpreting: an exploratory study in medical encounters facilitated by healthcare interpreters	1
Acculturation in a multicultural classroom: perspectives within the yin-yang metaphor framework	1
Sociolinguistic aspects of integrating within the space of the ‘Other’: the case of Arab students in Jewish schools	1
Chair's Notes	1
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	1
‘It’s no longer “that black woman”; it’s “that woman”’: language in the dynamics of vulnerability and resilience	1
‘It would be better if you had a UK degree’: exploring the experiences of highly-skilled refugee women in the UK	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
Words apart: unravelling the language barrier plight of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong	1
My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language	1
Taking innovative humanising pedagogy towards Thirdness: sustaining the development of intercultural competence	1
Digital humanities pedagogy in action: insights from intercultural telecollaboration exploring inclusiveness of university campuses through art	1
Intercultural foreign language teaching and learning in higher education contexts	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	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
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction	1
Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural	1
Intercultural communication, faith and impression management: former Muslims’ engagement with social media	1
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	1
The Routledge handbook of critical interculturality in communication and education	1
Intercultural communication in collaborative translation: language, identity, and social inclusion in Hong Kong	1
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	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
Racing neoliberalism and remote Indigenous education in the Northern Territory of Australia: a critical analysis of contemporary Indigenous education language policy and practice	1
Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia	1
On the interculturality of Konglish: language labels, perceiving subjects, and metadiscursive regimes	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