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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	32
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	30
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion: current issues and future challenges	27
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	26
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	23
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	20
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	19
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	17
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	16
Editorial	13
Introducing language and intercultural communication (3rd edition)	13
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	12
Plurilingual and intercultural education as educational activism for social transformation: perspectives, pathways, and possibilities	12
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	10
Editorial	10
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
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	8
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
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	8
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	7
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	7
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	7

Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	7
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
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	6
Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	6
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	6
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	6
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	6
Fighting is teaching: activism, teaching and perspectives on plurilingual education from the lands of Chaco	6
Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language: affect, embodiment and materiality in times of ‘crisis’	6
From initial encounter to lasting bonds: influential factors in intercultural friendship between Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese University Students	6
Biculturalism in (inter)action in Aotearoa New Zealand: an Interactional Sociolinguistics analysis of workplace practice in a context of conscious learning	6
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	5
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	5
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	5
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	5
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	5
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	4
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	4
Photography as a methodological third-space: student knowledge about their material and embodied place-making	4
Quality and equity in education: a practical guide to the council of Europe vision of education for plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizenship	4
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	4
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	4
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	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
When the ‘language of the enemy’ is also one’s own: re-making multilingual selves in times of war	4
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	4
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	4
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	3
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	3
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	3
Co-creating plurilingual and intercultural community-based learning projects for migrant women	3
Chair’s notes	3
Bands of Activist Poetry: visual kindness cards based on children’s rights thinking	3
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	3
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	3
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	3
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	3
Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse	3
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	3
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
Language as Symbolic Power	3
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	3
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	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
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	3