OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics Review is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Frontmatter	56
Genre effects on alignment and writing quality in the continuation task by Chinese EFL learners	41
Study abroad experiences in homestay: where complexity, dynamicity, and individuality stay	37
Learning semantic and thematic vocabulary clusters through embedded instruction: effects on very young English learners’ vocabulary acquisition and retention	30
Special issue: translanguaging practice in diverse contexts	25
Tourism, commodification of Dongba script and perceptions of the Naxi minority in the linguistic landscape of Lijiang: a diachronic perspective	25
Frontmatter	22
Greek Cypriot and immigrant students’ attitudes and perceptions of acculturation, ethnic identity and self-esteem in the Republic of Cyprus	21
Exploring Tibetan residents’ everyday language practices in Danba county, Southwest China: a case study	20
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea: complex and agentive navigation of capital and language ideologies	18
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China	18
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching	17
Perceived teacher feedback practices, student feedback motivation and engagement in English learning: a survey of Chinese university students	16
Individual versus pair work on L2 speech acts: production and cognitive processes	16
The myopic focus on decoloniality in applied linguistics and English language education: citations and stolen subjectivities	16
Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English	16
Exploring AI for intercultural communication: open conversation	15
Epistemological theft and appropriation in qualitative inquiry in applied linguistics: lessons from Halaqa	15
To copy verbatim, paraphrase or summarize – listeners’ methods of discourse representation while recalling academic lectures	14
Objects are not just a thing – (re)negotiating identity through using material objects within the Kurdish diaspora in the UK	13
“When we use that kind of language… someone is going to jail”: relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters	12
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South	12
“If you don’t know English, it is like there is something wrong with you.” Students’ views of language(s) in a plurilingual setting	12
Learner-internal and learner-external factors for boredom amongst Chinese university EFL students	12
Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models	11

A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university	11
Distribution and translation	10
A corpus-based study of LGBT-related news discourse in Thailand’s and international English-language newspapers	10
Pedagogical implications of translingual practices for content and language integrated learning	9
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics	9
How ‘good-enough’ is second language comprehension? Morphological causative and suffixal passive constructions in Korean	9
Isomorphism and language-specific devices in comprehension of Korean suffixal passive construction by Mandarin-speaking learners of Korean	9
“I never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion”: unveiling EFL teachers’ perspectives about emotions in assessment	9
Languages ontologies in higher education: the world-making practices of language teachers	9
Understanding micro-blogging users’ translanguaging in Chinese language play: a qualitative phenomenological approach	8
The application of social network analysis in applied linguistics research: a systematic review	8
On the move: social and linguistic acculturation in a small society	8
Frontmatter	8
ESL classroom interactions in a translanguaging space	8
Creativity, criticality and translanguaging in assessment design: perspectives from Bangladeshi higher education	8
Frontmatter	7
The effects of task complexity on L2 English rapport-building language use and its relationship with paired speaking test task performance	7
Relationships between struggling EFL writers’ motivation, self-regulated learning (SRL), and writing competence in Hong Kong primary schools	7
Examining the role of writing proficiency in students’ feedback literacy development	7
Multimodal or multilingual? Native English teachers’ engagement with translanguaging in Hong Kong TESOL classrooms	7
The cognitive-conceptual, planning-organizational, affective-social and linguistic-discursive affordances of translanguaging	7
Translanguaging in public and digital spaces: integrating telecollaboration to linguistic landscapes studies	7
On the influence of the first language on orthographic competences in German as a second language: a comparative analysis	7
Designing new Korean mothers, daughters-in-law, and wives: an analysis of Korean textbooks for newly arrived marriage migrants in South Korea	7
“By the way I want to give you some masks”: exploring multimodal stance-taking in YouTube videos	6
The bidirectionality of epistemological theft and appropriation: contrastive rhetoric in China	6
Sociocultural influence on engineering students’ collaborative design project: an Activity Theory perspective	6
Translanguaging space in a bilingual program in New York City Chinatown middle school	6
Tribal epistemologies and the discursive construction of COVID-19 knowledge	6
Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China	6
Ways of seeing and discourse strategies of naming the novel coronavirus in the US and Hong Kong	6
Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class	5
Marked on the voice: the visibility experiences of Russian heritage migrants following the war against Ukraine	5
Deaf signing diversity and signed language translations	5
From trilingualism to triliteracy: a trilingual child learning to write simultaneously in Korean, Farsi, and English	5
Exploring unobserved heterogeneity of speech fluency and its dynamic interactions with emotions	5
L2 repair fluency through the lenses of L1 repair fluency, cognitive fluency, and language anxiety	5
“I am surprised they have allowed you in here to do this”: women’s prison writing as heterotopic space of narrative inclusion	5
Emergent LOTE motivation? The L3 motivational dynamics of Japanese-major university students in China	5
Frontmatter	5
Kingdom of heaven versus nirvana: a comparative study of conceptual metaphors for Christian and Buddhist ideals of life	5
Attempts at including, mediating and creating ‘new’ knowledges: problematising appropriation in intercultural communication education and research	5
The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography	5
Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study	5
Negotiating belonging in multilingual work environments: church professionals’ engagement with migrants	5
A mixed-methods study of English vocabulary for medical purposes: medical students’ needs, difficulties, and strategies	4
Translanguaging design in a third grade Chinese Language Arts class	4
Moderation of teacher-student rapport in the link between smartphone addiction and foreign language burnout and its gender difference	4
Frontmatter	4
L2 university students’ motivational self system in English writing: a sociocultural inquiry	4

Culture machines	4
Affiliation and negative assessments in peer observation feedback for foreign language teachers professional development	4
Transidiomatic favela: language resources and embodied resistance in Brazilian and South African peripheries	4
Imagination and investment: unraveling academic identity in Chinese doctoral candidates’ publishing journeys in U.S. higher education	4
Communicating across educational boundaries: accommodation patterns in adolescents’ online interactions	4
Follow-up contributions for collaboratively accomplishing peer feedback in video-mediated L2 interactions	4
Medical students’ attention in EFL class: roles of academic expectation stress and quality of sleep	4
Interplay between language and identity: Chinese returnee scholars in the internationalisation of higher education	4
Foreign language teacher grit: scale development and examining the relations with emotions and burnout using relative weight analysis	4