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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging , by Jeff MacSwan, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2022, Pp.392, €54.95, ISBN 97	48
English and local languages in linguistic structuration of the public space in Islamabad and the neighbouring town	48
Resilience through language? A case study of three minority communities in Georgia	35
Interpersonal perception of emotional intensity by English first (L1) and foreign (LX) language users in audio(visual) communication	34
Sociolinguistic ecology disparities and linguistic landscaping in different urban spaces: the case of Hong Kong	33
Translanguaging as social practice: interethnic communication in the Tobati community of Papua	26
Family language policy and survival strategies in a Greek multilingual family with deaf and hearing members	25
Bioecological understanding of Korean Australian families’ heritage language maintenance	24
Language attitudes and use among Hong Kong and Macau students in mainland Chinese universities: a mixed methods study grounded in social cognitive theory	21
Enabling multilingual learners’ agency and language ownership in additional language writing	20
Combined regressive cross-linguistic influence: how learning Ln Germanic impacts L1 Polish word order	20
‘ Global without Borders’: language policy and the concerted cultivation of multilingualism	17
Scoping review on primary school teachers’ beliefs on multilingualism in classroom teaching	16
A systematic review of teachers’ translanguaging pedagogies in East Asian tertiary EMI contexts: stance, design, and shifts	16
Management teams' attitudes towards the Implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning in Moroccan secondary education: fostering multilingualism or perpetuating monolingual ideology	15
Stylistic expressions of respect across English, Russian, and Japanese sociolinguistic contexts	15
Exploring plurilingual and pluricultural competence among EFL students in Iran: a mixed methods study	15
Rendering multilingualism in interdialectal dubbing: a case study of Moroccan-Syrian dubbing	15
Hidden in plain sight: the global heritage language education sector	14
Exploring language learning strategies and autonomy: a case study of how polyglots master multiple languages	14
Affective life of Mongolian proverbs in times of COVID-19 lockdown in China	14
Metaphorical conceptualisations of language proficiency, usage, and attitude towards Nigerian English	14
Third language English performance at the onset of schooling: effects of bilingualism and exposure in Catalan-Spanish bilingual children	13
The spiritual vision for learning Arabic and beyond: unpacking undergraduate students investments and identity negotiation in Kazakhstan	12
Translanguaging stance of preschool teachers working with multilingual children in Luxembourg	12

The predictive effects of subjective appraisals on multilinguals’ emotions in the translation classroom: a prospective design	12
‘There are no restrictions on me’: a netnographic approach to amateur subtitling from the perspective of translanguaging	11
Exploring multilingualism: insights from the language practices of an ethnic minority student	11
Challenging journeys for minority language-speaking parents: teaching heritage language in inter-lingual families	11
Impact of technology use on the construction of identity in language learners: a 2020–2024 systematic literature review	11
Educators, parents and children engaging in literacy activities in multiple languages: an exploratory study	11
L3 English in the German secondary school context: longitudinal development of bilingual heritage speakers’ multilingual repertoire	11
Early reading development of plurilingual children: a longitudinal study	11
Translingualism and solidarity in multiethnic communities	10
Linguistic landscapes of peripheral small towns: a case study of Villány, Hungary	10
Review of multilingualism and identity: Interdisciplinary perspectives	10
Multilingualism and history	10
Connecting language and place in multilingual educational contexts in Norway and Finland	10
The potential trade-off between L3 Chinese proficiency and L1 Thai verbal fluency	10
Improving productivity of language teaching in multi-cultural-lingual context: case study on Shanghai business school	10
Developing and validating a questionnaire on prospective foreign language teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism	10
Multilingual testing and assessment	10
An ethnic minority speaker’s self-conflict in multilingual lived experience: a case study of IPA	9
A bibliometric analysis of research trends in multilingualism in English medium instruction: towards translanguaging turn	9
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
Teachers’ perceptions of multilingual and language-aware practices in foreign language education in Finland	9
Teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism: novel findings and methodological advancements: introduction to special issue	9
Language dominance, educational context, and the trilingual lexicon: a large-scale masked translation priming study	9
Developing language awareness activities in the context of plurilingual education: two didactic models for language teaching practice	9
Inclusion of student L1s in formal education: secondary teachers’ views and practices regarding plurilingualism	8
Multilingual development: English in a global context	8
Between play and precarity: translingual practices of youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina	8
The internationalisation of higher education in linguistic educationscapes in Thailand	8
Embracing superdiversity and multilingualism in English as a medium of instruction in STEM classrooms: a participatory action research	8
Foreign language enjoyment in translanguaged EFL classrooms	7
Exploring the nexus of variables in English-medium instruction research: a comprehensive global meta-analysis	7
‘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	7
The impact of studying abroad on language choice in social networking sites: a comparative study of Azerbaijani students in Türkiye and at home	7
Language teachers’ wellbeing in plurilingual education across educational levels – two portraits	7
Multiculturalism and multilingualism in higher education: intercultural activity participation and opportunities for language learning	7
Language choices reflecting social changes: multilingualism in the popular music of Guinean jelis	7
Multilingualism, identity and interculturality in education	7
Translanguaging in online requests: communicative strategies of Chinese international students in the UK	7
Virtual linguistic landscape on the website of the faculty of cultural studies, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia	7
Presence of ‘ARABIC’ in Kuala Lumpur’s multilingual linguistic landscape: heritage, religion, identity, business and mobility	7
Preparing pre-service teachers for superdiverse classrooms: the case of a collaborative school and university project	7
The merit of grit and emotions in L2 Chinese online language achievement: a case of Arabian students	7
Delineating translanguaging: theoretical distinctions from code-switching and a Vygotskian model of cognitive scaffolding in multilingual classrooms	7
‘Talk about my name’: exploring the translanguaging potential of artifacts within multilingual parents’ early literacy practices with their children	6
Transnational connections in discourse: stancetaking among heritage speakers of Spanish in the US context	6
Cognitive retroactive transfer of metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2) among trilingual learners	6
Implementing multilingual pedagogy in Finnish ECEC groups – from monolingual practices towards more systematic approaches	6
Enhancing multilingual young students’ pragmatic awareness through pedagogical translanguaging	6
Language proficiency and emotional wellbeing in multilingual adolescents: comparing majority, heritage and foreign language	6
Reliability assessment and construct validation of Translanguaging in Education and Social Settings Questionnaire (TESS)	6

The challenges of applying a multilingual content and language learning approach in spatial planning	6
Beyond vocabulary: linguistic, cognitive, and affective barriers facing international medical students in Persian-medium medical education	6
Is ‘translanguaging’ an educational concept? A comparative bibliometric analysis of ‘translanguaging’ research from linguistic and the educational perspectives	6
New Approaches to Multilingualism, Language Learning, and Teaching	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
Non-dominant languages in the Greek public sector: disrupting prestigious linguistic norms	6
Challenges and strategic solutions in heritage language instruction: an evaluation from teachers’ perspectives	6
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	6
Pragmatic functions of codeswitching among Maghreb Arabic-French-English trilinguals in a study abroad context	5
Power, positioning, and precarity: identity negotiation and agency in multilingual minors in Canada	5
Monuments in linguistic landscapes and the semiotics of public memory in northern Zambia	5
Tension in the linguistic landscape: the implications of language choices for diversity and inclusion in multilingual museums representing minorities	5
Cross-linguistic input experience in third language Spanish reading acquisition: an exploration of Chinese learners of Spanish	5
A study on multimodal metaphor of emotions in emojis	5
Reimagining language use in classrooms: pre-service teachers’ beliefs and practices of translanguaging pedagogy in Tanzanian secondary education	5
Teaching and learning third languages	5
Catalan writing by Chinese multilingual adults in Catalonia: an error analysis	5
Gender-differentiated manifestations of communicative language anxiety in the multilingual secondary educational context of the Basque Country	5
‘I don’t like them to know I’m Syrian ’: family language policy amongst Syrian refugees in Türkiye	5
Online linguistic landscaping and indigenous languages in multilingual Ghana	5
Language learning space and legitimation of adult second language speakers in the workplace	5
More cues or more languages? word segmentation using statistical learning in multilinguals, bilinguals, and monolinguals	5
Language policies and practices in early childhood education: perspectives across European migration societies. Introduction to the special issue	5
Synthesizing STEAM integration in language education literature: trends, themes, and outcomes	5
Validation of the CILD-Q for measuring contextual linguistic diversity in Singapore	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 languages, fewer strategies? linguistic repertoires and the diminishing returns of grammar learning strategies	5
Tailored CLIL training for education degrees based on student teachers’ perceptions of their competence to plan CLIL lessons	5
Rethinking language policy Rethinking language policy , by Bernard Spolsky, Edinburgh, UK, EdinburghUniversity Press ltd., 2021, x+285 pp., £24.99, IS	5
Does family influence affect success in EMI? The mediating role of the ideal L2 self and L2 self-concept	5
Difference in cognitive control ability between trilinguals and bilinguals: evidence from Stroop tasks via a mouse-tracking paradigm	5
How metalinguistic awareness relates to multilanguage acquisition: evidence from Mandarin-English bilinguals and Uyghur-Mandarin-English trilinguals	4
The language learning strategies of multilinguals: the influence of age of acquisition in early bilingualism	4
Positioning, moral orientation and calibration in a virtual deaf-hearing sign language space	4
Digital media as language and literacy learning spaces in multilingual families – survey results from Luxembourg	4
Pedagogical bridges to heritage: teacher attitudes and practices in heritage language maintenance	4
Identity negotiation and the hidden hierarchies in postcolonial Fiji	4
Measuring international posture at an internationalised university in Barcelona: an exploration of gender, language, and educational and intercultural trajectories	4
Authorised voices: literacy practices of language revitalisation through education	4
Analysing the factor structure of the plurilingual and pluricultural competence scale: dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the adapted Russian version	4
Distributed liderazgo : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology	4
Exploring teachers’ multilingual beliefs and practices in Argentina: insights from Ungspråk-TEACH	4
The initial state of third language acquisition: Chinese–English bilingual learners’ judgments of syntax in semi-artificial languages	4
Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities , edited by Ritu Jain, Abingdon and	4
Urban-rural disparities in Hanoi's café names: a linguistic landscape analysis of language choice and modifier placement in Vietnam	4
Publisher’s note	4
A linguistic landscape study of shop signs on Barkhor Street in Lhasa	4
Multilingual selves and motivations for learning languages other than English in Asian contexts	4
Englishisation of Sindhi: mapping the impact of English on Sindhi in the linguistic landscape of Sindh	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
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
An exploration of language teachers’ multilingual identities in Australia	4
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning	4
Special issue 20/1: Development of ‘deficit perspectives’ among primary school teacher students in Austria	4
Navigating linguistic diversity toward ELF-informed pedagogy: Filipino teachers’ perceptions of their accent	4
Becoming a speaker of German as an L1 French speaker: elite multilingualism as a means of distinction in a globalised world	4
Plurilingual foreign-language teaching in early EFL: exploring student perspectives and profiles	4
Navigating identity, empowerment, and marginalization in a Turkish EMI terrain: the case of an international student	4
Translanguaging and identity preservation in English language learning: multilinguals’ voices from a Malaysian University	4
Language acts and worldmaking	4
Understanding university students’ (dis)investments and identity negotiation for learning German in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	4
Nigerian pidgin in popular music and dialectal choice in social domains	4
Cross-linguistic awareness of metacognitive reading strategies in Standard Arabic (L1) and English (L3) among Moroccan EFL undergraduate students: a mixed-methods study	4