OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Language learning playware: a ‘playful learning’ approach to ELT materials development	161
Fostering key competency growth: a feedback model for university English teaching	64
Supporting the academic staff of the internationalised university: a project at the Department of Management	42
Less frequently used research methodologies in applied linguistics (Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 6)	39
Audiovisual input and second language learning	31
Multimodality and pronunciation in ICLHE (Integration of Content and Language in Higher Education) training	29
The idiodynamic method in individual differences research: a review of applications and contributions	23
Collocations, corpora and language learning	21
ESL teachers’ experiences in engaging with published research findings: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	20
Exploring students’ perceptions and affordances of Google docs-supported collaborative writing	19
OASIS: one resource to widen the reach of research in language studies	19
L2 skill-specific anxiety and communication apprehension: the role of extramural English in the Turkish context	19
Multilingual teacher training in South Tyrol: strategies for effective linguistic input with young learners	18
Context-specific multilingual instruction: evolution of an instructional design	17
Integrating goal-setting and automated feedback to improve writing outcomes: a pilot study	14
Local research and global perspectives in English language teaching	14
Designing and providing inclusive ELT materials in times of the global pandemic: a Chilean experience	13
A goal-based writing program in the EFL writing context: implementation and results	13
The Routledge handbook of materials development for language teaching	13
A perezhivanie perspective of the interconnection between language teacher autonomy and emotion: making a case for emotional autonomy	13
Guiding and assessing development of L2 writing process: the role of peer collaboration	12
Funds of knowledge and identity in language learning and teaching	12
Every cloud has a silver lining: a person-centred analysis of foreign language learners’ motivation and engagement in Chinese universities	12
International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT	12
Towards more learning-centred English-medium education: promoting the combination of backward design and community of practice in teacher training	12

Metacognition, motivation, self-efficacy belief, and English learning achievement in online learning: Longitudinal mediation modeling approach	12
Administrative staff learning and using English to communicate with international students	11
Exploring latent profiles in the relationship between learning atmosphere, negative emotions, and willingness to communicate among EFL learners	10
Advances and challenges in online language learning: a bibliometric analysis	10
Chinese students’ boredom and burnout and their prediction by autonomy supportive learning climate: a latent growth curve modeling	10
Beyond seeking equivalents: exploring Chinese master’s students’ use of machine translation as a translanguaging process in EAP writing	9
Understanding the relationship between competitive climates and reading achievement in East Asia: a situated expectancy-value theory perspective	9
Programme-level English enhancement strategy in civil engineering undergraduate education: an application of innovative strategy	8
Collaborative Leadership Through Leaderful Classroom Practices: Everybody is a Leader	8
Psychological and emotional impact of COVID-19 on TESOL: learning to teach EFL in a VUCA environment	8
Technology in Second Language Writing: Advances in Composing, Translation, Writing Pedagogy and Data-Driven Learning Technology in Second Language Writing: Advances in Composing, Transl	8
Measuring EFL learners’ use of ChatGPT in informal digital learning of English based on the technology acceptance model	8
Self-efficacy mediates but does not moderate the relationship between grit and L2 achievement	8
New Frontiers in Language and Technology	7
The challenges of the internationalisation of the curriculum: a pedagogical intervention to promote interculturality and plurilingualism in English-Medium Instruction	7
Individual differences and task-based language teaching	7
Behavioural engagement with notes and note content in digital game-based vocabulary learning and their effects on EFL vocabulary development	7
Higher order thinking skills in the language classroom: A concise guide Higher order thinking skills in the language classroom: A concise guide , by Afsaneh Ghanizadeh,	7
Critical thinking in academic writing: a cultural approach	6
Pre-service English teachers’ beliefs and practices in the use of digital technology: the case of a technology-enhanced teacher preparation course in South Korea	6
Effectiveness of augmented reality on EFL learner’s language gains: a meta-analysis	6
Mediation of enjoyment and burnout in the link between teacher-student relationships and foreign language achievement and its gender differences	6
The effects of humorous video tasks on affective, cognitive, and social factors in English language vocabulary learning: a comparative study	6
Unveiling the dynamic connection between a socially responsible activity and English learning motivation at a Taiwanese university	6
Foreign language learner autonomy in online learning environments: the teachers’ perspectives	6
Reimagining crisis teaching through autoethnography: a case of an online Japanese course	5
Materials development in flexible learning amid the pandemic: perspectives from English language teachers in a Philippine state university	5
Intra-linguistic mediation within the context of Model United Nations	5
Global CLIL: critical, ethnographic and language policy perspectives	5
The spatiality of pre-service language teachers’ funds of professional identity	5
Online informal language learning (OILL): a systematic review of studies (2014–2023)	4
Foundational principles of task-based language teaching Foundational principles of task-based language teaching , by Martin East, New York and Oxford, Routledge, 2021, 1	4
Innovating language motivation research: the localized possibilities of practitioner research	4
LGBTQ+ and feminist digital activism: a linguistic perspective	4
Teaching and Researching Motivation, 3rd ed.	4
The shift to flexible learning amidst the pandemic: the case of English language teachers in a Philippine state university	4
EFL learners’ perceptions and their association with the effectiveness of model texts as a feedback tool	3
Tracking motivational changes in self-initiated professional development in ELT: a single-case analysis	3
How to Learn Spanish: A Guide to Powerful Principles and Strategies for Successful Learning and Self-Empowerment	3
Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching in the Neo-Nationalist Era	3
Are enjoyment and anxiety specific to culture? An investigation into the sources of Turkish EFL learners’ foreign language enjoyment and anxiety	3
Automated speech scoring of dialogue response by Japanese learners of English as a foreign language	3
Exploring Turkish EFL teachers’ negative emotions and professional detachment in episodic narratives: a Ricoeurian analysis of the critical incidents	3
Motivation for learning EFL in Tunisia: an eclectic theoretical approach and a structural equation modeling approach	3
Mindsets in language learning and teaching: an introduction to the special issue	3
Professional intercultural communicative competence in action	3
Peer editing and writing proficiency: an experimental study in South Korean higher education	3
Embedding digital multimodal composing in EFL curriculum: students’ video design and literacy demonstration	3
AI in foreign language learning and teaching: theory and practice	3
The coming of age of LMOOC research. A systematic review (2019-21)	3

Mobile assisted learning in Arabic language education: the impact of Duolingo and Memrise on phonology, morphology, and syntax competencies