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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	50
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	25
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	25
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	24
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	21
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	17
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	16
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	16
Editorial	16
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	15
Editorial	15
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	14
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	13
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	12
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	11
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	10
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	10
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	10
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	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	8
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	8
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	8
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	7
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	7

Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	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	6
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	6
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	6
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	6
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	6
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	5
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	5
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	5
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	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
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	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
Language as Symbolic Power	4
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	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
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	4
Chair’s notes	4
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	4
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	4
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	4
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	4
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	3
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	3
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	3
Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	3
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	3
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	3
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	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
The Politics of Researching Multilingually	3
Well-educated, middle-class Chinese immigrants in Canada	3
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	3
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	3
Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	3
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	3
Editorial	3