OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Intercultural Communication is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	30
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	20
From ethnography to performance: transforming interview narratives into artistic performative acts – The project ‘Greco’ at the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival	19
Literature and intercultural learning in language and teacher education	17
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	14
Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world	14
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	11
Intercultural communication, creative practice and embodied activisms: arts-based interculturality in the Maghreb	11
Expanding ‘conceptual horizons’: a reflexive approach to intercultural pedagogies in higher education	10
Transcending the classroom: (de)stigmatising foreign cultures through foreign language teaching	10
English is ‘the language everybody shares’ but it is ‘my native language’: language ideologies and interpersonal relationships among students in internationalizing higher education	9
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	9
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	9
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	9
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	8
Migrants’ NATION-AS-BODY metaphors as expressions of transnational identities	8
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	8
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	7
Freire’s longevity in intercultural education: entangled histories from Colombian and Mexican higher education	7
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia: language use and attitudes in a bilingual region	7
The social semiotic of reclaiming an identity from racist discourse: investigating the subaltern identity of South African coloureds by means of intersectional discourse analysis	6
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	6
Neoliberal common sense and Erasmus student mobility: how do prospective English language teachers construct their experiences?	6
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	6
Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research	6

Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	6
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	6
Revisiting ‘foreignness’: Nationalism and language education	5
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	5
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	5
Liberating language education	4
Editorial	4
Editorial	4
Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality	4
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	4
Language, culture and interculturality: global debates, local challenges	4
Congolese women speak: languaging, translanguaging and discursive cross-culturing as resources for empowerment	4
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	4
Intercultural knowledge production: against gender-based violence and towards epistemic justice	3
International students' mobility and value added through internationalization of higher education in Estonia and Denmark	3
Interrupting the cognitive empire: keynote drama as cultural justice	3
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	3
Editorial	3
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	3
Digital ethnography through videoshadowing: everyday life in foreign language and intercultural communicative competence	3
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	3
Salvini, stereotypes and cultural translation: analysing anglophone news discourse on Italy’s ‘little Mussolini’	3
‘They are not very open to people’: how mobile students construct interculturality through metaphor and narrative	3
Home-in-language: examining Tibetan migrants’ narratives of homeplace amid China’s urbanization	3
Bridging cultures and languages through cosmopolitan translation: a case of Macao’s Chinese-Portuguese bilingual street signs	3
Experiences of and preparedness for Intercultural Teacherhood in Higher Education: non-specialist English teachers’ positioning, agency and sense of legitimacy in China	2
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	2
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	2
Toward the internationalization of higher education: developing university students’ intercultural communicative competence in Spain	2
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	2
Intercultural universities in Mexico: decolonizing the intercultural philosophy of education	2
Identity work in conservative political discourse: a cross-cultural comparison	2
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	2
A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China	2
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	2
Chair’s notes	2
Language as Symbolic Power	2
Reflexivity in research: addressing power dynamics in researching Syrian refugees in the UK	2
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	2
‘You know what we Latinos are like’: intragroup evaluations and relations among outsourced Latin American workers in London	2
Editorial	2
Learning and using languages in ethnographic research	2
From intercultural to transcultural communication	2
Editorial	2
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	2
Collective vulnerability between the researcher and the researched: a reflection on researcher positionality and ‘safety’ in the study of Islamophobia in economic Muslim migrants	2
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	2
Educational approaches to internationalization of higher education through intercultural dialogue	2
New words, new lives: employing interpretative phenomenological analysis integrated with strategies from ethnography in researching the lived experience of multilingualism and vulnerability in survivo	2
Intercultural communication in interpreting: power and choices	2

Chair's note	2
Heritage language communities as sites of struggle and identity negotiation: a case of Korean–American university students	2
Language attitudes towards English in local and immigrant students in Catalonia: analysis of the joint effect of language competence and region of origin	2
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	2
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	2
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	2