OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Intercultural Communication is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	55
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	27
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	27
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	25
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	23
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion: current issues and future challenges	19
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	18
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	17
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	16
Editorial	16
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	15
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	15
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	14
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	13
Editorial	11
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	10
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	10
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	10
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	9
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	9
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	9
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	8
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	8
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	8
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	8

Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	7
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	7
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	7
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	6
Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	6
From initial encounter to lasting bonds: influential factors in intercultural friendship between Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese University Students	6
Fighting is teaching: activism, teaching and perspectives on plurilingual education from the lands of Chaco	6
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	6
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	6
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	6
Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language: affect, embodiment and materiality in times of ‘crisis’	6
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	6
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	5
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	5
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
When the ‘language of the enemy’ is also one’s own: re-making multilingual selves in times of war	5
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	5
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	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
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	5
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	4
Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse	4
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	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
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
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	3
Chair’s notes	3
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	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
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	3
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	3
Language as Symbolic Power	3
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	3
Bands of Activist Poetry: visual kindness cards based on children’s rights thinking	3
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	3
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	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
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	3

Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	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
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	3