OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
SisiXhosa osikhathalele ngantoni na esi ude usindwe ziincwadi ezingaka? Why do you care about isiXhosa so much that you are overwhelmed by so many books?	10
Translanguaging during collaborative learning: A ‘transcollab’ model of teaching	7
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria	7
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors	7
Lexical bundle variation across moves in abstracts of medical research articles	6
Sociocultural narratives and the anthropomorphic power of agency in a semiotic landscape	5
Translanguaging strategies in multimodality and audiovisual translation	4
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech	4
Translanguaging pedagogy in selected English First Additional Language writing classrooms	4
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative	4
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software	3
Learning trouble in mentoring conversations	3
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?	3
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace	3
Verb stem influence on object marking in Chiyao1	2
The extraction of terminology list using ParaConc for creating a quadrilingual dictionary	2
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension	2
Teachers’ language ideologies, conflicting language policy and practices in Zimbabwean education system	2
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences	2
Language regulation in post-independence Zimbabwe (1981–2015) and Kalanga linguistic citizenship	2
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university	2
Linguistic formation patterns of anglicised traditional Yorùbá anthroponyms	2
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia	2
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English	2
Do additional, visual elements in recorded lectures influence the processing of subtitles?	2

Developing and validating a visual questionnaire for the study of impersonalisation strategies: A design thinking approach	2
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach	1
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication	1
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice	1
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective	1
User studies on the Sepedi Copulative Decision Tree	1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction	1
Methodological differences matter: Identification thresholds and corpus composition in lexical bundle research	1
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa	1
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages	1
Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines	1
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya	1
Towards modelled testing of productive knowledge of collocations	1
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press	1
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances	1
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts	1
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang	1
Corruption in a diachronic corpus of Nigerian presidential speeches	1
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices	1
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English	1
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause	1