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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor's message	39
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	21
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	17
Issue Information ‐ TOC	17
Trust, resistance, and transformation: A Q‐methodological study of teachers' perspectives on AI‐generated feedback in second language writing	12
The landscape of American Sign Language education	12
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	11
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	11
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	11
Issue Information	11
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	11
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	11
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	11
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher education	10
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Meta‐analyses of anxiety, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and self‐efficacy in virtual reality‐assisted language education	10
The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can‐Dos	10
Leadership matters: World language program leadership & teacher practices	9
Framing ASL education: Perspectives from postsecondary ASL professionals	9
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	9
The importance of peer review	9
Code choice and translanguaging in Spanish classroom tasks	9
Revisiting attending to form during meaning comprehension in learning Spanish as an additional foreign language	8
Strategic planning for professional engagement	8
DEEP framework: Transforming language learning with UN SDGs	8

ACTFL Chinese reading proficiency guidelines: Verifying the difficulty hierarchy	8
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Teachers' perspectives on pedagogy in short‐term language study abroad	7
Building connections	7
An examination of the postgraduation benefits of earning a Seal of Biliteracy	6
Exploring general language ability development through monitored extensive reading, extensive listening, and audio‐assisted extensive reading	6
Centering positionality in Foreign Language Annals: Toward reflexive praxis in research and publication	6
Issue Information	6
EDITOR'S MESSAGE	6
WE MUST TALK ABOUT BRUNO: Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations	6
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Exploring the learning benefits of website‐delivered pragmatics instruction: The case of L2 Mandarin Chinese	5
Learning to teach world language online during COVID‐19 pandemic: A phenomenographic study	5
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Explaining the penetrating role of technology in online foreign language learning achievement	5
Foreign Language Annals forthcoming policy on the use of GenAI	5
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Reading and affect: University Spanish learners' perceptions of a reading program	5
Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use	4
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
Can Spanish programs evaluate oral proficiency gains for all learners? An empirical analysis of traditional and nontraditional Spanish majors' oral proficiency development	4
Envisioning a successful professional self through a negotiation‐themed advanced Chinese course	4
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
Proficiency‐based placement: Examining the validity of the APPT – Listening test	4
Exploring critical AI literacy in language education: A case study	4
Leveraging the AAPPL to promote positive washback in K‐12 language teaching	4
Imagining Black futures in world language education	4
Issue Information ‐ TOC	4
Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers	4
Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level	4
President's message	4
What makes video‐based academic lectures difficult for language learners to comprehend? The role of multimodal complexity	4
Analytic visual word recognition among Chinese L2 learners	4
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates: Secondary school academic and language achievement	4
Receptive vocabulary knowledge in L2 learners of Spanish: The role of high‐frequency words	3
The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean	3
Engaging in transnational ways of teaching and building a community of practice: Preservice teachers’ experiences in an online after‐school program	3
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Patching The Leaky Bucket: Understanding WL teacher identity‐agency and attrition	3
Effect of inserted adjunct questions on L2 reading with Chinese learners	3
Perceptions of place‐based pedagogies in language education through the lens of K‐16 teachers	3
Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges	3
The effect of the conceptual metaphor theory on the teaching of orientation idioms in teaching Turkish as a foreign language	3
Deconstructing the myth of Standard German: Navigating language ideologies in the L2 German university classroom	3
Investigating L2 writers' uses of machine translation and other online tools	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
AI literacy: A core practice in world language education	2
Deconstructing the benefits of reading‐while‐listening on L2 reading comprehension: The influence of cross‐orthographic distance	2
Incorporation of ACTFL proficiency guidelines and OPI into a Chinese heritage language curriculum	2
American sign language level 1 assessment: What is out there?	2

Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	2
Can the Oral Proficiency Interview ‐ Computer (ACTFL OPIc) be used instead of the Oral Proficiency Interview (ACTFL OPI)? An aligned rank transform (ART) analysis	2
Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion	2
How dual language bilingual education preservice teachers draw upon and develop students' sociocultural competence	2
L2 discourse marker use in interaction: The case of pues in Spanish	2
The current state of undergraduate medical Spanish: Results of a national survey	2
Effects of structural complexity and L1 experience on L2 acquisition of Chinese multiword sequences	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Editor's message	2
The impact of questioning strategies on target language production and learner confidence	2
Editor's message	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Co‐constructive feedback affordances in integrated performance assessment learner dyads	2
The creative abilities of preservice world language educators	2
Motivating and demotivating factors for Chinese as a foreign language learners in a British CLIL program	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
The use of cohesive devices as proficiency level discriminators in Chinese DLI learners' writing	2
Looks like google to me: Instructor ability to detect machine translation in L2 Spanish writing	2
Novice Mandarin learners' transformative learning through critical virtual exchange: A multimodal, translanguaging design	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Attention to verbal morphology in L2 Arabic reading: An eye‐movement study	1
Chinese bilingual preservice teachers' reflections on translanguaging pedagogy: The need for critical language curricularization	1
The development of L2 interactional competence in Arabic: The case of multiple requests	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Relationship between written and spoken text recall in L2	1
Chronicling emotional trajectories in early‐career language teaching: A longitudinal intensive single‐case Q methodology study	1
High‐leverage practices in action: WL teachers' self‐reported use of HLTPs in the K‐12 classroom	1
From mock interviews to real job interviews: Assessing the efficacy of business Chinese instruction	1
Considering students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes in the teaching of Swedish	1
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Proficiency development and smartphone usage in study abroad: Microgenetic longitudinal case studies of French learners	1
Prototypical words for core categories in French and English: Vocabulary as a window to culture	1
L2 motivation, anxiety, and intended effort among learners of African languages in the United States	1
Editor's message	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
Understanding L2 use in MMOGs: A linguistic framework of digital gaming	1
Recruitment and retention of world language teacher education majors: Perspectives of teacher candidates and alumni to remedy a global shortage	1
Editor's message	1
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College‐level world language faculty background characteristics and their perceptions of online language teaching during the pandemic	1
A case study: A technological insight on teaching translation	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	1
L2 listening: An intervention study of instructional approaches	1
The effect of providing feedback and feedforward in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills by interpreter trainees	1
Issue Information ‐ TOC	1
The Chinese corner as an ecological space for multilingual identity development	1
The Seal of Biliteracy as a recruitment tool in postsecondary language study	1
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Discourses of foreign language development in study abroad: Social networks and other intervening factors	1
Cultural representation in German as a foreign language textbooks used in Indonesia: A critical social semiotic analysis	1
Indicators of academic readiness for college: Evaluating an advanced Spanish language program	1
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Different approaches, similar results: Preparing foreign language teachers to implement high‐leverage teaching practices	1
Supporting literacy development in two‐way immersion classrooms (Grades 3–5)	1
Assisted self‐assessment to optimize the OPIc test experience	1
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Effects of different forms of explicit instruction on L2 development: A meta‐analysis	1
Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA): Implementation, task types, and feedback	1
Who considers becoming a world language teacher? Comparing students who would with those who won't	1
Diversity and inclusion of culturally and linguistically diverse students in K‐12 Chinese language education	1