OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Multilingualism is 4. 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
Sociolinguistic ecology disparities and linguistic landscaping in different urban spaces: the case of Hong Kong	33
Interpersonal perception of emotional intensity by English first (L1) and foreign (LX) language users in audio(visual) communication	26
Resilience through language? A case study of three minority communities in Georgia	25
Scoping review on primary school teachers’ beliefs on multilingualism in classroom teaching	22
Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging , by Jeff MacSwan, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2022, Pp.392, €54.95, ISBN 97	22
English and local languages in linguistic structuration of the public space in Islamabad and the neighbouring town	21
‘ Global without Borders’: language policy and the concerted cultivation of multilingualism	20
Early reading development of plurilingual children: a longitudinal study	20
The spiritual vision for learning Arabic and beyond: unpacking undergraduate students investments and identity negotiation in Kazakhstan	20
Transnational narratives of ecological socialisation: exploring multilingual international students’ sociospatial practices through interview conversations	18
Educators, parents and children engaging in literacy activities in multiple languages: an exploratory study	15
Affective life of Mongolian proverbs in times of COVID-19 lockdown in China	15
L3 English in the German secondary school context: longitudinal development of bilingual heritage speakers’ multilingual repertoire	15
Language awareness, strategy training and the facilitative role of L2 English: Polish L3 teachers' perceptions of multilingualism	15
Third language English performance at the onset of schooling: effects of bilingualism and exposure in Catalan-Spanish bilingual children	14
A review of existing transliteration approaches and methods	13
Exploring multilingualism: insights from the language practices of an ethnic minority student	13
The role of L1 and L2 in the acquisition of null subjects by Chinese learners of L3 Italian	13
Challenging journeys for minority language-speaking parents: teaching heritage language in inter-lingual families	13
Translanguaging stance of preschool teachers working with multilingual children in Luxembourg	12
‘There are no restrictions on me’: a netnographic approach to amateur subtitling from the perspective of translanguaging	11
Review of language learning in study abroad: the multilingual turn Language learning in study abroad: the multilingual turn , by Wenhao Diao and Emma Trentman, Bristol,	11
Developing language awareness activities in the context of plurilingual education: two didactic models for language teaching practice	10
Review of multilingualism and identity: Interdisciplinary perspectives	10
An ethnic minority speaker’s self-conflict in multilingual lived experience: a case study of IPA	10

Multilingualism and history	10
The internationalisation of higher education in linguistic educationscapes in Thailand	10
The potential trade-off between L3 Chinese proficiency and L1 Thai verbal fluency	10
Multilingual testing and assessment	10
Multilingual language minority parents’ perspectives on their relationships with caregivers regarding the multilingual upbringing of the child: a large-scale exploration within childcare facilities in	9
Translingualism and solidarity in multiethnic communities	9
‘I think mangiò might be passé simple’: exploring multilingual learners’ reflections on past tense verb morphology	9
A bibliometric analysis of research trends in multilingualism in English medium instruction: towards translanguaging turn	8
Improving productivity of language teaching in multi-cultural-lingual context: case study on Shanghai business school	8
Linguistic landscapes of peripheral small towns: a case study of Villány, Hungary	8
Teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism: novel findings and methodological advancements: introduction to special issue	8
Contrastive language policies: a comparison of two multilingual linguistic landscapes where Spanish coexists with regional minority languages	8
The impact of studying abroad on language choice in social networking sites: a comparative study of Azerbaijani students in Türkiye and at home	7
Multilingual development: English in a global context	7
Exploring the nexus of variables in English-medium instruction research: a comprehensive global meta-analysis	7
Presence of ‘ARABIC’ in Kuala Lumpur’s multilingual linguistic landscape: heritage, religion, identity, business and mobility	7
Foreign language enjoyment in translanguaged EFL classrooms	7
Multiculturalism and multilingualism in higher education: intercultural activity participation and opportunities for language learning	7
Multilingual publication practices in the social sciences and humanities at a Polish university: choices and pressures	7
Unidirectional multilingual convergence: typological and social factors	7
The merit of grit and emotions in L2 Chinese online language achievement: a case of Arabian students	6
Preparing pre-service teachers for superdiverse classrooms: the case of a collaborative school and university project	6
Romance languages and EFL: friends or foes? A study on the effects of romance intercomprehension training on plurilingual competence and EFL reading skills in young learners	6
‘Talk about my name’: exploring the translanguaging potential of artifacts within multilingual parents’ early literacy practices with their children	6
Reliability assessment and construct validation of Translanguaging in Education and Social Settings Questionnaire (TESS)	6
Korean-speaking spaces: heritage language learning and community access for mixed-race Korean Americans	6
Language proficiency and emotional wellbeing in multilingual adolescents: comparing majority, heritage and foreign language	6
‘I don’t want to see the foreign languages connected with our family disappear’: building and maintaining a multilingual family in the monolingual context of Vietnam	6
Language choices reflecting social changes: multilingualism in the popular music of Guinean jelis	6
Multilingualism, identity and interculturality in education	6
Cognitive retroactive transfer of metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2) among trilingual learners	6
Linguistic landscape in transnational areas: a comparative study of African and Korean neighbourhoods in Guangzhou	6
Teacher engagement and roles in translanguaging in bilingual education in Xinjiang, China	6
Unpacking teachers’ beliefs about translanguaging in language learning: a qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Is ‘translanguaging’ an educational concept? A comparative bibliometric analysis of ‘translanguaging’ research from linguistic and the educational perspectives	5
Word knowledge and word usage: a cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon Word knowledge and word usage: a cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon , edited	5
Enhancing multilingual young students’ pragmatic awareness through pedagogical translanguaging	5
Determining the pedagogical value of code-switching: functions of teacher code-switching in tertiary level mathematics classrooms	5
Transnational connections in discourse: stancetaking among heritage speakers of Spanish in the US context	5
Language learning space and legitimation of adult second language speakers in the workplace	5
Implementing multilingual pedagogy in Finnish ECEC groups – from monolingual practices towards more systematic approaches	5
Towards multilingual turn in language classes: plurilingual awareness as an indicator of intercultural communicative competence	5
Teaching and learning third languages	5
Globalising early childhood education (GECE)	5
A study on multimodal metaphor of emotions in emojis	5
Retrieval practice plus feedback benefits a third language vocabulary learning	5
Perspectives and practices on using Swahili to teach and learn English in Tanzania’s secondary schools	5
Multilingual cyberpragmatics in instructional settings. Exploring gender and age effects in Catalan, Spanish and English email requests	5
More cues or more languages? word segmentation using statistical learning in multilinguals, bilinguals, and monolinguals	4
Synthesizing STEAM integration in language education literature: trends, themes, and outcomes	4

Rethinking language policy Rethinking language policy , by Bernard Spolsky, Edinburgh, UK, EdinburghUniversity Press ltd., 2021, x+285 pp., £24.99, IS	4
Tension in the linguistic landscape: the implications of language choices for diversity and inclusion in multilingual museums representing minorities	4
Online linguistic landscaping and indigenous languages in multilingual Ghana	4
Multilingual selves and motivations for learning languages other than English in Asian contexts	4
Measuring international posture at an internationalised university in Barcelona: an exploration of gender, language, and educational and intercultural trajectories	4
Using oral narratives to examine acquisition of English verb morphology among multilingual Arabic and monolingual Hebrew speakers: finding similarities with monolingual English-speaking SLIs	4
Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities , edited by Ritu Jain, Abingdon and	4
‘So, mein Deutsch ist schlecht … ’: echoes of societal attitudes and education language policies within the family language policies of second- and third-generation German speakers in Newcastle, Austr	4
Becoming a speaker of German as an L1 French speaker: elite multilingualism as a means of distinction in a globalised world	4
A linguistic landscape study of shop signs on Barkhor Street in Lhasa	4
Cross-linguistic input experience in third language Spanish reading acquisition: an exploration of Chinese learners of Spanish	4
Digital media as language and literacy learning spaces in multilingual families – survey results from Luxembourg	4
Special issue 20/1: Development of ‘deficit perspectives’ among primary school teacher students in Austria	4
The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study	4
Analysing the factor structure of the plurilingual and pluricultural competence scale: dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the adapted Russian version	4
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning	4
Language policies and practices in early childhood education: perspectives across European migration societies. Introduction to the special issue	4
Navigating linguistic diversity toward ELF-informed pedagogy: Filipino teachers’ perceptions of their accent	4
Discursive constructions of language variation in a Chinese-German eTandem	4
Plurilingual foreign-language teaching in early EFL: exploring student perspectives and profiles	4
An exploration of language teachers’ multilingual identities in Australia	4
Tibetan in the linguistic landscape of Xining (Qinghai Province, Amdo Tibet, Northwest China): a minority language in the context of a monolingual language policy and in a non-autonomous area	4
Translanguaging in Basque and English: practices and attitudes of university teachers and students	4
The language learning strategies of multilinguals: the influence of age of acquisition in early bilingualism	4
Distributed liderazgo : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology	4