OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Linguistics Review 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign language learning boredom: Conceptualization and measurement	71
Learner emotions, autonomy and trait emotional intelligence in ‘in-person’ versus emergency remote English foreign language teaching in Europe	40
A longitudinal study at an English medium instruction university in Turkey: the interplay between English language improvement and academic success	21
Translanguaging design in a third grade Chinese Language Arts class	21
“I never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion”: unveiling EFL teachers’ perspectives about emotions in assessment	16
Epistemic injustice and neoliberal imaginations in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy	14
Tracking telecollaborative tasks through design, feedback, implementation, and reflection processes in pre-service language teacher education	14
EMI in Chinese higher education: the Muddy water of ‘Englishisation’	13
“You can’t start a fire without a spark”. Enjoyment, anxiety, and the emergence of flow in foreign language classrooms	13
The mundanity of translanguaging and Aboriginal identity in Australia	11
Foreign language peace of mind: a positive emotion drawn from the Chinese EFL learning context	11
Motivations to enrol in EMI programmes in China: an exploratory study	11
Learner-internal and learner-external factors for boredom amongst Chinese university EFL students	10
English medium of instruction in Chinese higher education: a systematic mapping review of empirical research	10
Language policy in the internationalisation of Higher Education in Anglophone countries: The interplay between language policy as ‘text’, ‘discourse’ and ‘practice’	10
What’s hot and what’s not on the current CLIL research agenda: Weeding out the non-issues from the real issues. A response to Bruton (2019)	9
A translanguaging and trans-semiotizing perspective on subject teachers’ linguistic and pedagogical practices in EMI programme	9
Chinese university students’ self-regulated writing strategy use and EFL writing performance: influences of self-efficacy, gender, and major	9
How to kill two birds with one stone: EMI teachers’ needs in higher education in China	9
To translanguage or not to translanguage: Ideology, practice, and intersectional identities	9
The relationships between young FL learners’ classroom emotions (anxiety, boredom, & enjoyment), engagement, and FL proficiency	8
The production and perception of Turkish evidentiality markers by Turkish-German returnees	8
Choreographing linguistic landscapes in Singapore	8
Illuminating insights into subjectivity: Q as a methodology in applied linguistics research	8
The incentivisation of English medium instruction in Chinese universities: policy misfires and misalignments	8

Multimodal or multilingual? Native English teachers’ engagement with translanguaging in Hong Kong TESOL classrooms	8
English as a medium of instruction in Chinese higher education: looking back and looking forward	7
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics	7
Young children’s language-based agency in multilingual contexts in Luxembourg and Israel	7
Boredom in practical English language classes: a longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis-curve of factors model	7
Why can’t I teach English? A case study of the racialized experiences of a female Ugandan teacher of English in an EFL context	7
Translanguaging as a decolonising approach: students’ perspectives towards integrating Indigenous epistemology in language teaching	6
Deaf signing diversity and signed language translations	6
Observing a teacher’s interactional competence in an ESOL classroom: a translanguaging perspective	6
A scientometric analysis of applied linguistics research (1970–2022): methodology and future directions	6
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South	6
A systematic review of meta-analyses in second language research: current practices, issues, and recommendations	6
Uncovering transfer effects of dominance and proficiency in L3 English acquisition using the visual moving window paradigm and grammaticality judgments	6
Study abroad, language usage, and the development of multilingual identities: The case of 1.5 generation Korean–American students	5
L2 university students’ motivational self system in English writing: a sociocultural inquiry	5
Relationships between struggling EFL writers’ motivation, self-regulated learning (SRL), and writing competence in Hong Kong primary schools	5
Commodification or shared ownership? A case study of Chinese communities in the linguistic landscape of Bendigo	5
Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China	5
Tourism, commodification of Dongba script and perceptions of the Naxi minority in the linguistic landscape of Lijiang: a diachronic perspective	5
Opening the methodological black box of research synthesis in language education: where are we now and where are we heading?	5
Transl[iter]ating Dubai’s linguistic landscape: a bilingual translation perspective between English and Arabic against a backdrop of globalisation	5
The operating mechanisms of self-efficacy and peer feedback: An exploration of L2 young writers	5
Effects of Group Dynamic Assessment on L2 Chinese learners’ literacy development: Learners’ responsiveness to interactive mediation	4
A latent profile analysis of L2 writing emotions and their relations to writing buoyancy, motivation and proficiency	4
Policing language in the world of new work: the commodification of workplace communication in organizational consulting	4
Success factors for English as a second language university students’ attainment in academic English language proficiency: exploring the roles of secondary school medium-of-instruction, motivation and	4
Citizen sociolinguists scaling back	4
Cross-linguistic influence on the use of L2 collocations: the case of Vietnamese learners	4
“Part of me is teaching English”: probing the language-related teaching practices of an English-medium instruction (EMI) teacher	4
Towards an understanding of multilingual investment: multilingual learning experiences among mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong	4
Development and validation of the questionnaire on EFL students’ perceptions of authorial stance in academic writing	4
Creativity, criticality and translanguaging in assessment design: perspectives from Bangladeshi higher education	4
Using PowerPoint slides as a resource for coordinating understanding during presentation consultations at an L2 speaking center	4
Study abroad experiences count: Motivational profile of EFL listeners and its impact on top-down and bottom-up processing	4
Translanguaging in self-praise on Chinese social media	4
Translanguaging practices of students in science and math classes in a Chinese/English dual language bilingual program	4
Examining the role of writing proficiency in students’ feedback literacy development	4
Learners’ attitudes to first, second and third languages pronunciation in structuring multilingual identity	3
Immersing learners in English listening classroom: does self-regulated learning instruction make a difference?	3
Hearing parents learning American Sign Language with their deaf children: a mixed-methods survey	3
Artificial intelligence and posthumanist translation: ChatGPT versus the translator	3
Transidiomatic favela: language resources and embodied resistance in Brazilian and South African peripheries	3
Detecting concealed language knowledge via response times	3
“You have to repeat Chinese to mother!”: multilingual identity, emotions, and family language policy in transnational multilingual families	3
“Not a bad thing”: a commentary on translanguaging among Chinese bilinguals	3
Translanguaging practices of Chinese/English bilingual engineers’ communications in the workplace	3
Academic emotions in giving genre-based peer feedback: an emotional intelligence perspective	3
Distribution and translation	3
Chinese graduate students’ translanguaging practice in the context of academic writing in English	3
What does translanguaging-for-equity really involve? An interactional analysis of a 9th grade English class	3

Translingual English discrimination: loss of academic sense of belonging, the hiring order of things, and students from the Global South	3
LexCH: a quick and reliable receptive vocabulary size test for Chinese Learners	3
Topics, publication patterns, and reporting quality in systematic reviews in language education. Lessons from the international database of education systematic reviews (IDESR)	3
The cognitive-conceptual, planning-organizational, affective-social and linguistic-discursive affordances of translanguaging	3
Translanguaging in writing: a bilingual PhD student’s reflection	2
Integrating translanguaging into assessment: students’ responses and perceptions	2
Workplace communication in flux: from discrete languages, text genres and conversations to complex communicative situations	2
Transnational postgraduate students’ experience of voice and participation	2
Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English	2
Strategic competence, task complexity, and foreign language learners’ speaking performance: a hierarchical linear modelling approach	2
Orienting to the language learner role in multilingual workplace meetings	2
“Writing-to-learn”: the influence of task repetition on CSL writers’ attention to form	2
Validating young learners’ plurilingual repertoires as legitimate linguistic and cultural resources in the EFL classroom	2
The mechanism for the positive effect of foreign language peace of mind in the Chinese EFL context: a moderated mediation model based on learners’ individual resources	2
Learning semantic and thematic vocabulary clusters through embedded instruction: effects on very young English learners’ vocabulary acquisition and retention	2
Vocabulary learning in a foreign language: multimedia input, sentence-writing task, and their combination	2
Bilingual education in China: a qualitative synthesis of research on models and perceptions	2
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea: complex and agentive navigation of capital and language ideologies	2
Study abroad, human capital development, language commodification, and social inequalities	2
The effects of task complexity on L2 English rapport-building language use and its relationship with paired speaking test task performance	2
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters	1
“Do you understand (me)?” negotiating mutual understanding by using gaze and environmentally coupled gestures between two deaf signing participants	1
Agentive engagement in intercultural communication by L2 English-speaking international faculty and their L2 English-speaking host colleagues	1
Contributions of morphological awareness and lexical inferencing ability to L2 vocabulary knowledge among Chinese EFL learners: a structural equation modeling analysis	1
Sociocultural influence on engineering students’ collaborative design project: an Activity Theory perspective	1
Developing a taxonomy of teacher emotion labor through metaphor: personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural angles	1
A mixed-methods study of English vocabulary for medical purposes: medical students’ needs, difficulties, and strategies	1
Applied linguistics from the Global South: way forward to linguistic equality and social justice	1
Affiliation and negative assessments in peer observation feedback for foreign language teachers professional development	1
Time, the deer, is in the wood: Chronotopic identities, trajectories of texts and community self-management	1
Mutual intelligibility of a Kurmanji and a Zazaki dialect spoken in the province of Elazığ, Turkey	1
Creative translanguaging in formative assessment: Chinese teachers’ perceptions and practices in the primary EFL classroom	1
Individual versus pair work on L2 speech acts: production and cognitive processes	1
The early the better? Or, the more the merrier? The relative effects of onset age and exposure hours on EFL learners’ implicit and explicit grammatical attainment	1
Isomorphism and language-specific devices in comprehension of Korean suffixal passive construction by Mandarin-speaking learners of Korean	1
English-medium instruction and impact on academic performance: a randomized control study	1
Facilitating learners’ participation through classroom translanguaging: comparing a translanguaging classroom and a monolingual classroom in Chinese language teaching	1
Voices of ignorance versus voices of knowledge: Debates on English as medium of instruction in Malawian primary schools	1
Korean immigrant teenagers’ literacy practices and identity negotiation through smartphone use	1
Motivation profiles of Chinese rural foreign language learners: link with learning strategy and achievement	1
Professional written voice “in flux”: the case of social work	1
Interplay between language and identity: Chinese returnee scholars in the internationalisation of higher education	1
Educational language policy in an African country: Making a place for code-switching/translanguaging	1
Negotiating belonging in multilingual work environments: church professionals’ engagement with migrants	1
Translanguaging as decoloniality-informed knowledge co-construction: a nexus analysis of an English-Medium-Instruction program in China	1
Interactional features in second language classroom discourse: variations across novice and experienced language teachers	1
An interactional approach to speech acts for applied linguistics	1
Exploring lexical bundles in low proficiency level L2 learners’ English writing: an ETS corpus study	1
English high-stakes testing and constructing the ‘international’ in Kazakhstan and Mongolia	1
Emotional intelligence as a mediator in the relationship between neuroticism and L2 achievement	1
Positioning of female marriage immigrants in South Korea: a multimodal textbook analysis	1
A corpus-based study of LGBT-related news discourse in Thailand’s and international English-language newspapers	1
Translanguaging practice: creative mind of a bilingual scholar	1
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching	1
“It sounds like elves talking” – Polish migrants in Aberystwyth (Wales) and their impressions of the Welsh language	1
Scaling practices in language encounters	1
Singular they in English as a foreign language	1
Transfer of learning, fear of failure, procrastination, and self-efficacy in learning English: Any evidence from the arts?	1
Making sense of trans-translating in blogger subtitling: a netnographic approach to translanguaging on a Chinese microblogging site	1
Adolescent Korean returnees’ perceptions of the change of language learning contexts as bilingual learners	1
Medical students’ attention in EFL class: roles of academic expectation stress and quality of sleep	1
Linguistic multi-competence in the community: the case of a Japanese plural suffix -tachi for individuation	1
Communicating across educational boundaries: accommodation patterns in adolescents’ online interactions	1
Epistemic positioning by science students and experts: a divide by applied and pure disciplines	1
Foreign language teacher grit: scale development and examining the relations with emotions and burnout using relative weight analysis	1
Accent or not? Language attitudes towards regional variation in British Sign Language	1
Emergent LOTE motivation? The L3 motivational dynamics of Japanese-major university students in China	1
Assessment and creativity through a translingual lens: transdisciplinary insights	1
Translanguaging space in a bilingual program in New York City Chinatown middle school	1
“This topic was inconsiderate of our culture”: Jordanian students’ perceptions of intercultural clashes in IELTS writing tests	1
Designing new Korean mothers, daughters-in-law, and wives: an analysis of Korean textbooks for newly arrived marriage migrants in South Korea	1
Oral corrective feedback on lexical errors: a systematic review	1
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China	1
Narratives of the self in bilingual speakers: the neurophenomenal space	1
Teacher resilience and triple crises: Confucius Institute teachers’ lived experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic	1