OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Language Identity and Education 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
Routine Literacy Practices as a Cultural Agenda: Children’s Experiences of Writing “Difficult” Chinese Characters in Australia	40
Language Learning Trajectories: Pupils’ Perspectives, Structural Factors and Demographics at General Certificate of Secondary Education	34
Minority Languages in Academia: The Arabic Language in the Israeli Academy	29
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Intercultural Citizenship in Higher Education, by Golubeva, I. (2025).	28
The Act of Transitions: Exploring Cultural Aptitude Through Drama for Language Development	26
Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual and Immersion Education: Solution-Oriented Research and Stakeholder Resources for Real Integration , by Delavan, M. G. Frei	23
Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students: Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project, edited by City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilingual	19
Language Attitudes as Insights into Indigenous Language Shift and Maintenance	19
Race, Racism, and Antiracism in Language Education, by Ryuko, K. & Suhanthie, M. (2024).	18
Volume 21 Thanks	18
Centering Latina/o Bilingual Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with Marginalizing Figures of Personhood	16
Reinventing the Legitimate Speaker of Suburban Swedish: Negotiating Boundaries Through Linguistic Citizenship in a Swedish Classroom	15
“Esprit de Corps”: Ingroup Identity Construction and Contextual Conceptualisations Among the (Para)military Discourse Community	15
(Why) See Yourself as Plurilingual: Intercomprehension and Motivation Towards the Learning of LOTEs in Young Learners	14
Education and the Politics of Cultural Survival for Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey	13
“It’s Like You Don’t Have an Identity”: A Narrative Inquiry into a Precarious English Language Teacher’s Professional Identity Negotiations	12
Plurilingual Identity Positioning of Newcomer Children with Emerging Print Literacy	12
Language Brokering Over Time: A Study of Citizenship Becoming Through a Transliteracies Framework	12
Ecological Ethical Approaches in Education and Technology for Sustaining “Xun” Culture in the Yellow River Basin	12
The Performance of Queer Identities by Two Spanish L2 Learners During Study Abroad	12
Engaging Opportunities: A Small Moments Reflexive Inquiry of Translanguaging in a Graduate TESOL Course	11
Being an Arabic Language Teacher in Catalan Schools: A Case Study of the Arabic Language and Moroccan Culture (LACM) Program	11
Monolingual Momentum: The Limits of Critical Language Awareness in a Hybrid Science Learning Environment	11
Unprepared for Superdiversity: Teacher Agency and Constraint in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse French Elementary Classroom	11
“We’re Not ABC. We’re ABT”: Identity and Language Ideologies of Taiwanese American Youth	11

The Development of Exceptional EFL Learner Identity: A Narrative Inquiry of Former Gifted Learners	10
Interculturality and the English Language Classroom by Victoria, M. & Sangiamchit, C. (2021)	10
Community Discourses of Language Reclamation through Irish Medium Youth Work	10
Language in Professional Communication and National Identity of Ukrainian Civil Servants-Bilinguals	10
Negotiating Language Ideologies in Adolescent Bilingual Peer Mentoring	9
A Parent’s Multimodal Support to Bilingual Child’s Reading: A Case Study of Korean Immigrant Family	9
Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia: Shaping Inclusive Societies, Identities, and Futures, by Pradhan, U. & Gupta, M. (Eds.). (2025).	8
Striking a Balance Between Researchers’ and Learners’ Voices in L2/FL Empirical Studies: A Guide to the Group Repertory Grid Approach	8
Language Support and Institutional Discrimination: Insights into School Leaders’ Experiences	8
Preparing teachers to work with multilingual learnersWernicke, M., Hammer, S., Hansen, A., & Schroedler, T. (Eds.). (2021). Preparing teachers to work with multilingual learners. Multilingual Matt	7
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, by Baker-Bell, A.	7
Language Teacher Researcher Identity Construction in Activity: Navigating Entanglement of Two English PSTs in Undergraduate Thesis Work in the Indonesian Context	7
Language Teacher Identity Construction: Reflective Conversation	7
Multilingual Learners in Language Programs: An Exploration of Parent Choice	6
Academic Research Network Management: Sociocultural Perspectives from Languages Other Than English	6
“They Almost Equal American Children”: Epistemic Exclusion and the Colonial Logic of Correct English in the American Imperial Imaginary	6
Investments of High School EFL Teachers: Negotiating Professional Identities, Forms of Capital, and Societal Ideologies	6
Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change (1st ed.), by Pu, C. and Wright, W. E.	6
Teaching Pride Forward: Building LGBTQ+ Allyship in English Language Teaching, by Trinh, T., Reynolds, K. M., and Coda, J. (Eds.). (2024).	6
Literacy and Identity Related to Children’s Education, Work, and Health: Conversations Among Adult ESL Learners from Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds	6
“Springboard” vs. “Homecoming”: Unravelling Chinese Rural EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of their Work, Professional Identities and Teaching Practices	6
Correction	6
“We are Not All Named Maria”: Building Transnational Identities in a United States International Baccalaureate High School	6
Identities of Non-English-Dominant Teachers-In-Training: Alignments and Tensions	5
Adolescent English Learners’ Awareness of Disciplinary Writing and Academic Language in Science Classrooms: The Affordances of a Register-Functional Perspective	5
From Compliance to Criticality: Language Investment, Ideologies and Learners’ Imagined Identities in Postcolonial Pakistan	5
Preparing Pre-Service Content Area Teachers Through Translanguaging	5
Young Chinese Language Learners’ L2 Motivational Self System and Learning Achievement in Chinese Literacy Acquisition	5
The Education of Arabic Speaking Refugee Children and Young Adults Education, Employment and Social Inclusion, by Maadad, N. & Darmawan, I. G. N.	5
Coping with Teacher Professional Identity Tensions: Using TPACK During Global Crisis Time	5
Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis: Examining Multilingual, Multicultural Pupils’ Interpretation of Canon Literature	5
Translanguaging in Teaching and Learning Science in Selected Multilingual Elementary Classrooms in the Philippines	5
Divergent Perspectives on Identifying Heritage Speakers: Unraveling the Complex Differences in How Speakers See Themselves and Others	5
Coercive Conditions and Strategic Compliance: Vietnamese EFL Teacher Identity Construction and Neoliberal Values	5
Individual Language Policy: Bilingual Youth in Vietnam, by Nguyen, T. T. T.	4
Disciplinary Practices with Multilingual Learners in the Content Areas: Investigating Grasp of Practice in Fifth-Grade Science	4
Belonging, Conflict and Loss: Learning Ukrainian Online During COVID-19	4
Bilingual Ways with Words : Children’s Identity Enactment and Negotiation in a Dual Language Immersion Class	4
Language Inheritance and Identity Among the New-Generation Chinese Cambodians	4
Teachers’ Awareness and Management of the Social, Cultural, and Political Indexicalities of Translanguaging	4
Contesting the “Standard Prosody Myth” Through a Multilingual Lens	4
Frame, Family Discourse, and Hui Muslim Identity	4
Language Learners’ Transferable Skills and Narrative Competence in U.S. Career Advising Appointments: Multilingual Development Beyond Higher Education	4
“Estás Luchando…Por Toda La Comunidad”: The Communal Organizing Literacies of Latine/x Immigrant Families	4
Exploring Chilean EFL Student Teachers’ Development of Teacher Identity Through Perezhivanie	4
Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Language and Power, by Ching-Ching, L. & Vaz Bauler, C. (2023).Ching-Ching, L. & Vaz Bauler, C. (2023). Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Langu	3
Bureaucratizing Maya: The Institutionalization of Non-Speakerhood in Indigenous Early Childhood Education	3
International Students’ Investment in Learning Cantonese, English, Mandarin, and Portuguese in Multilingual Macao	3
Translanguaging Interpretive Power in Formative Assessment Co-Design: A Catalyst for Science Teacher Agentive Shifts	3
Equity Audits as Catalysts for Change: A Case Study on Racial Disparities in a University Spanish Language Program	3

“Disinvestment” in Learners’ Multilingual Identities: English Learning, Imagined Identities, and Neoliberal Subjecthood in Pakistan	3
Student Perceptions of Bilingual Teaching Practices: Evidence from a Colombian University	3
Collaborative Complaints, Alignment, and Identity Positioning During Teacher-Mentor Post-Observation Meetings	3
Effect of Interaction and Alignment of Continuation Task in Chinese as a Second Language Writing	3
Papeles, Sueños, y Futuros: The Altermundos Literacies of Parents of the Latine/x Diaspora	3
Language Teacher Educator Identity, by Barkhuizen, G.Barkhuizen, G. (2021). Language Teacher Educator Identity. Cambridge University Press, 86 pp., $20.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781108812665	3
Volume 24 Thanks	3
Professional Identity Tensions in EFL Preservice Teachers: A Collective Case Study of Three International Students in South Korea	3
Constructing Identities in a Diverse School Setting: From Finnish Learners to Multilingual Experts	3
Pedagogical Coaching as Identity Work: Cultivating and Negotiating ESL Teacher Narrative Identities	3
Exploring the Role of Professional Learning Community in EFL Student-Teachers’ Imagined Identity Development	3
Factors Influencing L1 Japanese Language Teachers’ English-Medium Instruction Practices: A Cross-National Study on Multilingualism in JFL Classrooms	3
Mixed-Heritage Individuals and Systemic Risk During Negotiation of Identity	3
Motivating Second Language Learners with a Possible Selves Intervention Program	3
Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion, and Investment, by Tajeddin, Z. & Yazan, B. (Eds.). (2024).	3
Scalar Evaluations of Identity in Study Abroad: A Mixed-Heritage Japanese Adolescent’s Negotiations of Race, Language and Memory	3
When Language and Literacy Touch Our Hearts: Implications for Refugee Education from a Biliteracy Stance	3
Whose Bilingualism Counts? Juxtaposing the Sanctioned and Subaltern Languaging of Two Dual Language Teachers	3