OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics Review is 7. 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
Languages ontologies in higher education: the world-making practices of language teachers	110
“When we use that kind of language… someone is going to jail”: relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters	83
A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university	80
Objects are not just a thing – (re)negotiating identity through using material objects within the Kurdish diaspora in the UK	74
‘Our family’ as discursive and biographical space: notes for a sociolinguistics of family	56
The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian children’s early bilingual receptive vocabulary development	44
Adapting the Common European Framework of Reference for history, mathematics and science in a second language: an introduction	43
Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English	42
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics	36
Integrating antiracist pedagogy in a Korean EFL classroom: a participatory approach to racial awareness and critical education	33
Moderation of teacher-student rapport in the link between smartphone addiction and foreign language burnout and its gender difference	30
Frontmatter	27
The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography	27
“Coffee is no bitter than work”: linguistic landscapes in urban cafés in China	27
The perception of gradient acceptability among L1 Polish monolingual and bilingual speakers	26
Interactional features in second language classroom discourse: variations across novice and experienced language teachers	25
Investigating the relationships of writing behaviours to linguistic complexity and accuracy in independent and integrated writing task performance	23
Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study	22
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters	22
Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China	22
Culture machines	21
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	20
Disciplinary tribes and the discourse of mainstream media expert opinion articles: evidencing COVID-19 knowledge claims for a public audience	19
Understanding linguistic landscapes in a Chinese inland village: a chronotopic perspective	19
Contributions of interaction, growth language mindset, and L2 grit to student engagement in online EFL learning: a mixed-methods approach	19

Cognitive, affective and social dimensions of migration	19
Ethics of care and participatory research relationships in a linguistic ethnographic study of wartime experience	19
Automatic hate speech detection: a case study on online comments with a focus on self-victimisation and sentiment	18
Oral corrective feedback on lexical errors: a systematic review	17
A longitudinal study on lecture listening difficulties and self-regulated learning strategies across different proficiency levels in EMI higher education	17
Operationalising historical literacy with CEFR-aligned descriptors: an exploratory study	17
Ideologies of teachers and students towards meso-level English-medium instruction policy and translanguaging in the STEM classroom at a Malaysian university	17
Africatown in Guangzhou as geosemiotic assemblage: connecting multilingualism, store signs, and chronotopes	16
Against epistemological theft and appropriation in applied linguistics research	16
Frontmatter	16
A social justice research agenda for multilingual assessment in diverse educational contexts	16
Paradoxes of the Canadian mosaic: “being, feeling and doing Canadian”	16
Translanguaging as decoloniality-informed knowledge co-construction: a nexus analysis of an English-Medium-Instruction program in China	16
Refusing gifts in Chinese: a linguistic analysis integrating interaction ritual, expressions and speech acts	16
Unequal translanguaging: the affordances and limitations of a translanguaging space for alleviating students’ foreign language anxiety in language classrooms	15
“As a Muslim…”: on the importance of intercultural responsibility in transnational cultural exchanges	15
Investigating translanguaging strategies and online self-presentation through internet slang on Douyin (Chinese TikTok)	15
Can the subaltern speak in autoethnography?: knowledging through dialogic and retro/intro/pro-spective reflection to stand against epistemic violence	15
Frontmatter	15
“I’m human” – multilingual investment of a young adult with a migration journey in Italy	15
Corrigendum	15
From translanguaging to transknowledging: decolonizing knowledge production in applied linguistics	15
Developing a taxonomy of teacher emotion labor through metaphor: personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural angles	15
Translanguaging, identity, and ecology: synthesizing a decade of research and reimagining multilingual pedagogy	15
Frontmatter	15
Multilingualism, translanguaging, and education in the Vaupés, Northwest Amazonia: dynamics of language use, and language loss	14
I ain’t your f*cking Model Minority! Indexical orders of ‘Asianness’, class, and heteronormative masculinity	14
“Writing-to-learn”: the influence of task repetition on CSL writers’ attention to form	14
Frontmatter	13
Effects of Group Dynamic Assessment on L2 Chinese learners’ literacy development: Learners’ responsiveness to interactive mediation	13
Assessing bilingual historical narratives: validating historical literacy descriptors aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference	13
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China	12
Study abroad experiences in homestay: where complexity, dynamicity, and individuality stay	12
EAL and L1 English-speaking postgraduate students’ conceptions of English academic writing: a comparative metaphor analysis	12
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching	11
To copy verbatim, paraphrase or summarize – listeners’ methods of discourse representation while recalling academic lectures	11
Genre effects on alignment and writing quality in the continuation task by Chinese EFL learners	11
Vocabulary and morphological awareness and their relationship to reading comprehension in Chinese literacy development: conceptual and methodological issues	10
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South	10
Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models	10
Frontmatter	10
ESL classroom interactions in a translanguaging space	10
Platformization, social media, and investing in unequal digital literacy practices	9
Blaming, controlling, monitoring, and politicizing human-caused environmental disasters: anthropocentric discourses in framing the Ohio train derailment incident	9
Translanguaging, agency, and transpositioning: unpacking Chinese business expatriates’ communication practices in Singapore	9
Delving into the role of teacher respect and support in predicting Chinese EFL learners’ willingness to attend classes: a sequential mixed-methods study	9
“I am surprised they have allowed you in here to do this”: women’s prison writing as heterotopic space of narrative inclusion	9
Using the L1 to disambiguate L2 vocabulary: examining the effects on learning burden and decay with Chinese learners of English	9
Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China: an everyday life perspective	9
Attempts at including, mediating and creating ‘new’ knowledges: problematising appropriation in intercultural communication education and research	8

Visualising the language practices of lower secondary students: outlines for practice-based models of multilingualism	8
Narratives of the self in bilingual speakers: the neurophenomenal space	8
Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class	8
Syntactic variation and Pan-Hispanic awareness in teachers of Spanish as a second language	8
Enregistering translanguaging as a named language: Kongish in Kongish Daily	8
Motivation profiles of Chinese rural foreign language learners: link with learning strategy and achievement	8
The neoliberal coloniality of EMI in Hong Kong higher education: insights from online stancetaking	8
A systematic review of meta-analyses in second language research: current practices, issues, and recommendations	8
Assessment and creativity through a translingual lens: transdisciplinary insights	7
Frontmatter	7
Conceptualizing critical AI literacy in writing education: power dynamics in Chinese EAL students’ negotiations with GenAI	7
Constructing an imagined diaspora: pride and marginalization of Nepali ethnic identity and language in the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong	7
The role of speaker categorization in South Korean attitudes toward North Korean accents	7
Investigation of factors underlying foreign language classroom anxiety in Chinese university English majors	7
When AI meets intercultural communication: new frontiers, new agendas	7