OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foreign Language Annals is 3. 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
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	21
Editor's message	21
Issue Information ‐ TOC	19
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	19
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	18
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	14
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	13
Language teacher identity and social justice instructional practices: A history‐in‐person perspective	12
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	12
The landscape of American Sign Language education	12
“More than lo visible ”: Black world language teachers' use of identity to contest culturelessness	12
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	11
Issue Information	11
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	11
Trust, resistance, and transformation: A Q‐methodological study of teachers' perspectives on AI‐generated feedback in second language writing	11
Literary performance in Chinese as a foreign language: A multivariate study of dispositions, strategies, and motivation	10
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher education	10
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	9
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The importance of peer review	8
Framing ASL education: Perspectives from postsecondary ASL professionals	8
Leadership matters: World language program leadership & teacher practices	8
Motivation for learning Chinese compared to European languages: An exploration in English secondary schools	8
DEEP framework: Transforming language learning with UN SDGs	8

Revisiting attending to form during meaning comprehension in learning Spanish as an additional foreign language	7
Code choice and translanguaging in Spanish classroom tasks	7
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	6
Strategic planning for professional engagement	6
Issue Information	5
ACTFL Chinese reading proficiency guidelines: Verifying the difficulty hierarchy	5
An examination of the postgraduation benefits of earning a Seal of Biliteracy	5
Foreign Language Annals forthcoming policy on the use of GenAI	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Teachers' perspectives on pedagogy in short‐term language study abroad	5
WE MUST TALK ABOUT BRUNO: Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations	5
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‘I am so lost’: Negotiating positions through conversation in mixed HLL/L2L classrooms	5
Learning to teach world language online during COVID‐19 pandemic: A phenomenographic study	5
Building connections	5
Exploring general language ability development through monitored extensive reading, extensive listening, and audio‐assisted extensive reading	5
Centering positionality in Foreign Language Annals: Toward reflexive praxis in research and publication	5
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Explaining the penetrating role of technology in online foreign language learning achievement	4
Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use	4
Reading and affect: University Spanish learners' perceptions of a reading program	4
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers	4
Exploring the learning benefits of website‐delivered pragmatics instruction: The case of L2 Mandarin Chinese	4
Proficiency‐based placement: Examining the validity of the APPT – Listening test	4
Issue Information ‐ TOC	4
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Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	3
Imagining Black futures in world language education	3
The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean	3
Orthography‐sound vs. orthography‐meaning mapping in Chinese character learning: Evidence on typing and handwriting	3
Engaging in transnational ways of teaching and building a community of practice: Preservice teachers’ experiences in an online after‐school program	3
Novice Mandarin learners' transformative learning through critical virtual exchange: A multimodal, translanguaging design	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Leveraging the AAPPL to promote positive washback in K‐12 language teaching	3
What makes video‐based academic lectures difficult for language learners to comprehend? The role of multimodal complexity	3
Las voces de Baha‐blantes : An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level	3
Investigating L2 writers' uses of machine translation and other online tools	3
Perceptions of place‐based pedagogies in language education through the lens of K‐16 teachers	3
Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion	3
Patching The Leaky Bucket: Understanding WL teacher identity‐agency and attrition	3
Exploring critical AI literacy in language education: A case study	3
President's message	3
Deconstructing the myth of Standard German: Navigating language ideologies in the L2 German university classroom	3
Envisioning a successful professional self through a negotiation‐themed advanced Chinese course	3
Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges	3
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	3