OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Foreign Language Annals 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	47
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	30
Fall 2021	26
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	23
Editor's message	22
Issue Information ‐ TOC	16
The landscape of American Sign Language education	16
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	14
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	14
Issue Information ‐ TOC	14
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	13
Meta‐analyses of anxiety, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and self‐efficacy in virtual reality‐assisted language education	13
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	11
The taquito hot seat: Socializing monolingual bias through error correction practices in a Portuguese language classroom	11
The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can‐Dos	10
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher education	10
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	10
Revisiting attending to form during meaning comprehension in learning Spanish as an additional foreign language	9
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What does translanguaging look like in an English language classroom in a disadvantaged context? A case in a primary school with difficult circumstances in the Global South	8
Code choice and translanguaging in Spanish classroom tasks	8
Leadership matters: World language program leadership & teacher practices	8
The importance of peer review	8
L2 French students' conversations during interactive writing tasks and their interaction mindset	7
Enacting culturally sustaining immersion pedagogy through SFL and translanguaging design	7

Strategic planning for professional engagement	7
ERRATUM	7
Building connections	7
ACTFL Chinese reading proficiency guidelines: Verifying the difficulty hierarchy	7
WE MUST TALK ABOUT BRUNO: Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations	7
Factors affecting the quality of online learning in a task‐based college course	7
Teachers' perspectives on pedagogy in short‐term language study abroad	7
EDITOR'S MESSAGE	6
Early oral language in Chinese heritage language reading development	6
Centering positionality in Foreign Language Annals: Toward reflexive praxis in research and publication	6
An examination of the postgraduation benefits of earning a Seal of Biliteracy	6
Impact of L2 learners' background factors on the perception of L1 Spanish speech	6
Learning to teach world language online during COVID‐19 pandemic: A phenomenographic study	6
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Reading and affect: University Spanish learners' perceptions of a reading program	5
Exploring the learning benefits of website‐delivered pragmatics instruction: The case of L2 Mandarin Chinese	5
Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use	5
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Explaining the penetrating role of technology in online foreign language learning achievement	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Linguistic risk‐taking in second language learning: The case of French at a Canadian bilingual institution	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
President's message	4
Imagining Black futures in world language education	4
Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers	4
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
What makes video‐based academic lectures difficult for language learners to comprehend? The role of multimodal complexity	4
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates: Secondary school academic and language achievement	4
Envisioning a successful professional self through a negotiation‐themed advanced Chinese course	4
Leveraging the AAPPL to promote positive washback in K‐12 language teaching	4
Can Spanish programs evaluate oral proficiency gains for all learners? An empirical analysis of traditional and nontraditional Spanish majors' oral proficiency development	4
Analytic visual word recognition among Chinese L2 learners	4
Engaging in transnational ways of teaching and building a community of practice: Preservice teachers’ experiences in an online after‐school program	3
Investigating L2 writers' uses of machine translation and other online tools	3
Deconstructing the myth of Standard German: Navigating language ideologies in the L2 German university classroom	3
The other side of heritage language education: Understanding Spanish heritage language teachers in the United States	3
Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Can the Oral Proficiency Interview ‐ Computer (ACTFL OPIc) be used instead of the Oral Proficiency Interview (ACTFL OPI)? An aligned rank transform (ART) analysis	3
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Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges	3
Effect of inserted adjunct questions on L2 reading with Chinese learners	3
The effect of the conceptual metaphor theory on the teaching of orientation idioms in teaching Turkish as a foreign language	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Editor's message	3
Looks like google to me: Instructor ability to detect machine translation in L2 Spanish writing	3
The use of cohesive devices as proficiency level discriminators in Chinese DLI learners' writing	3
The effect of NNS–NNS and NNS–NS videoconferencing on the development of second language confidence	3

The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Receptive vocabulary knowledge in L2 learners of Spanish: The role of high‐frequency words	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Exploring the connection between language use and oral performance during study abroad: Results from the Daily Language Questionnaire 2	3
Effects of benchmarking and peer‐assessment on French learners' self‐assessments of accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency	3
Effects of different forms of explicit instruction on L2 development: A meta‐analysis	2
The creative abilities of preservice world language educators	2
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	2
L2 listening: An intervention study of instructional approaches	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Literacy en français and à la française: Socializing students to academic literacy practices in a foreign language	2
How dual language bilingual education preservice teachers draw upon and develop students' sociocultural competence	2
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The current state of undergraduate medical Spanish: Results of a national survey	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
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Co‐constructive feedback affordances in integrated performance assessment learner dyads	2
Editor's message	2
Motivating and demotivating factors for Chinese as a foreign language learners in a British CLIL program	2
American sign language level 1 assessment: What is out there?	2
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Deconstructing the benefits of reading‐while‐listening on L2 reading comprehension: The influence of cross‐orthographic distance	2
Effects of structural complexity and L1 experience on L2 acquisition of Chinese multiword sequences	2
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	2
L2 discourse marker use in interaction: The case of pues in Spanish	2
The impact of questioning strategies on target language production and learner confidence	2
Diversity and inclusion of culturally and linguistically diverse students in K‐12 Chinese language education	1
The Seal of Biliteracy: A 10‐year retrospective	1
Second‐language writing in university‐level basic language programs: A survey of student and instructor beliefs	1
The development of L2 interactional competence in Arabic: The case of multiple requests	1
The Seal of Biliteracy as a recruitment tool in postsecondary language study	1
Editor's message	1
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Discourses of foreign language development in study abroad: Social networks and other intervening factors	1
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Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA): Implementation, task types, and feedback	1
From mock interviews to real job interviews: Assessing the efficacy of business Chinese instruction	1
Curricular peer mentoring in first‐semester German: Novice learners' perceptions of a “Language Learning Assistant” program	1
Different approaches, similar results: Preparing foreign language teachers to implement high‐leverage teaching practices	1
College‐level world language faculty background characteristics and their perceptions of online language teaching during the pandemic	1
Relationship between written and spoken text recall in L2	1
Prototypical words for core categories in French and English: Vocabulary as a window to culture	1
Measuring preservice foreign language teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education through a newly developed scale	1
Evaluating the reading and listening outcomes of beginning‐level Duolingo courses	1
Attention to verbal morphology in L2 Arabic reading: An eye‐movement study	1
Supporting literacy development in two‐way immersion classrooms (Grades 3–5)	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Chinese bilingual preservice teachers' reflections on translanguaging pedagogy: The need for critical language curricularization	1
Recruitment and retention of world language teacher education majors: Perspectives of teacher candidates and alumni to remedy a global shortage	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Enhancing foreign language motivation through the magic of cooperative learning: Dream or reality?	1
The effect of providing feedback and feedforward in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills by interpreter trainees	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
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The recognition of coordinative compound words by learners of Chinese as a foreign language: A mixed methods study	1
Directionality and developmental mechanism of cross‐linguistic transfer of phonological awareness to early writing skill in young Chinese learners	1
Who considers becoming a world language teacher? Comparing students who would with those who won't	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Cultural representation in German as a foreign language textbooks used in Indonesia: A critical social semiotic analysis	1
Editor's message	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
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Proficiency development and smartphone usage in study abroad: Microgenetic longitudinal case studies of French learners	1
Indicators of academic readiness for college: Evaluating an advanced Spanish language program	1
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Assisted self‐assessment to optimize the OPIc test experience	1
Understanding L2 use in MMOGs: A linguistic framework of digital gaming	1
A case study: A technological insight on teaching translation	1