OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics Review is 5. 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
A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university	53
Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English	49
Languages ontologies in higher education: the world-making practices of language teachers	47
On the influence of the first language on orthographic competences in German as a second language: a comparative analysis	33
Objects are not just a thing – (re)negotiating identity through using material objects within the Kurdish diaspora in the UK	32
“When we use that kind of language… someone is going to jail”: relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters	31
The cognitive-conceptual, planning-organizational, affective-social and linguistic-discursive affordances of translanguaging	31
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics	24
Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China	23
The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian Children’s early bilingual receptive vocabulary development	23
Moderation of teacher-student rapport in the link between smartphone addiction and foreign language burnout and its gender difference	22
Making sense of trans-translating in blogger subtitling: a netnographic approach to translanguaging on a Chinese microblogging site	22
ELF- or NES-oriented pedagogy: enhancing learners’ intercultural communicative competence using a dual teaching model	21
Mutual intelligibility of a Kurmanji and a Zazaki dialect spoken in the province of Elazığ, Turkey	20
Communicating across educational boundaries: accommodation patterns in adolescents’ online interactions	20
Investigating the relationships of writing behaviours to linguistic complexity and accuracy in independent and integrated writing task performance	19
Agentive engagement in intercultural communication by L2 English-speaking international faculty and their L2 English-speaking host colleagues	18
Interactional features in second language classroom discourse: variations across novice and experienced language teachers	17
Integrating antiracist pedagogy in a Korean EFL classroom: a participatory approach to racial awareness and critical education	16
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Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study	16
Culture machines	16
Oral corrective feedback on lexical errors: a systematic review	14
The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography	14
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	14

Ideologies of teachers and students towards meso-level English-medium instruction policy and translanguaging in the STEM classroom at a Malaysian university	14
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters	14
Cognitive, affective and social dimensions of migration	13
A longitudinal study at an English medium instruction university in Turkey: the interplay between English language improvement and academic success	13
Disciplinary tribes and the discourse of mainstream media expert opinion articles: evidencing COVID-19 knowledge claims for a public audience	13
A longitudinal study on lecture listening difficulties and self-regulated learning strategies across different proficiency levels in EMI higher education	13
Translanguaging as decoloniality-informed knowledge co-construction: a nexus analysis of an English-Medium-Instruction program in China	12
Paradoxes of the Canadian mosaic: “being, feeling and doing Canadian”	12
‘Smelling’ diasporic: bargaining interactions and the problem of politeness	11
Refusing gifts in Chinese: a linguistic analysis integrating interaction ritual, expressions and speech acts	11
Against epistemological theft and appropriation in applied linguistics research	11
Africatown in Guangzhou as geosemiotic assemblage: connecting multilingualism, store signs, and chronotopes	11
“As a Muslim…”: on the importance of intercultural responsibility in transnational cultural exchanges	10
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Corrigendum	9
Investigating translanguaging strategies and online self-presentation through internet slang on Douyin (Chinese TikTok)	9
Can the subaltern speak in autoethnography?: knowledging through dialogic and retro/intro/pro-spective reflection to stand against epistemic violence	9
How to kill two birds with one stone: EMI teachers’ needs in higher education in China	9
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South	8
“Writing-to-learn”: the influence of task repetition on CSL writers’ attention to form	8
“You have to repeat Chinese to mother!”: multilingual identity, emotions, and family language policy in transnational multilingual families	8
I ain’t your f*cking Model Minority! Indexical orders of ‘Asianness’, class, and heteronormative masculinity	8
Effects of Group Dynamic Assessment on L2 Chinese learners’ literacy development: Learners’ responsiveness to interactive mediation	8
Developing a taxonomy of teacher emotion labor through metaphor: personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural angles	8
Multilingualism, translanguaging, and education in the Vaupés, Northwest Amazonia: dynamics of language use, and language loss	8
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Genre effects on alignment and writing quality in the continuation task by Chinese EFL learners	7
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China	7
Study abroad experiences in homestay: where complexity, dynamicity, and individuality stay	7
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching	7
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To copy verbatim, paraphrase or summarize – listeners’ methods of discourse representation while recalling academic lectures	7
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea: complex and agentive navigation of capital and language ideologies	7
“I am surprised they have allowed you in here to do this”: women’s prison writing as heterotopic space of narrative inclusion	6
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A corpus-based study of LGBT-related news discourse in Thailand’s and international English-language newspapers	6
Attempts at including, mediating and creating ‘new’ knowledges: problematising appropriation in intercultural communication education and research	6
Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models	6
ESL classroom interactions in a translanguaging space	6
Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China: an everyday life perspective	6
Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class	6
Multimodal or multilingual? Native English teachers’ engagement with translanguaging in Hong Kong TESOL classrooms	6
Assessment and creativity through a translingual lens: transdisciplinary insights	5
The neoliberal coloniality of EMI in Hong Kong higher education: insights from online stancetaking	5
Tracking telecollaborative tasks through design, feedback, implementation, and reflection processes in pre-service language teacher education	5
When AI meets intercultural communication: new frontiers, new agendas	5
Syntactic variation and Pan-Hispanic awareness in teachers of Spanish as a second language	5
Using the L1 to disambiguate L2 vocabulary: examining the effects on learning burden and decay with Chinese learners of English	5
A systematic review of meta-analyses in second language research: current practices, issues, and recommendations	5

Building natural language processing tools for Runyakitara	5
Motivation profiles of Chinese rural foreign language learners: link with learning strategy and achievement	5
Narratives of the self in bilingual speakers: the neurophenomenal space	5
Accent or not? Language attitudes towards regional variation in British Sign Language	5
Visualising the language practices of lower secondary students: outlines for practice-based models of multilingualism	5