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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Teachers' oral proficiency: What happens after they graduate?	35
Editor's message	26
Professional growth and development through ACTFL	25
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	20
Issue Information ‐ TOC	19
Examining novice language teachers' reflections in an online community of practice	15
The landscape of American Sign Language education	15
Issue Information ‐ TOC	14
Text‐centered “talk” in foreign language classrooms: Comparing the affordances of face‐to‐face and digital social annotated reading	12
Synchronous and asynchronous online collaborative writing: A study on Chinese language learners	11
Issue Information	11
Garfield, SLA gold medalist: Examining the investments of an exceptional US language learner/hyperpolyglot	11
Meta‐analyses of anxiety, motivation, performance, satisfaction, and self‐efficacy in virtual reality‐assisted language education	10
Engaging with the world: Applying connected learning in a university language learning context	10
Addressing challenges in language education: Insights and solutions from higher 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
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
Revisiting attending to form during meaning comprehension in learning Spanish as an additional foreign language	9
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Framing ASL education: Perspectives from postsecondary ASL professionals	9
Building connections	8
DEEP framework: Transforming language learning with UN SDGs	8
ACTFL Chinese reading proficiency guidelines: Verifying the difficulty hierarchy	8
The importance of peer review	8

Strategic planning for professional engagement	8
Code choice and translanguaging in Spanish classroom tasks	8
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Teachers' perspectives on pedagogy in short‐term language study abroad	7
WE MUST TALK ABOUT BRUNO: Antiracism in the world language classroom and the importance of having difficult conversations	7
L2 French students' conversations during interactive writing tasks and their interaction mindset	6
Impact of L2 learners' background factors on the perception of L1 Spanish speech	6
Issue Information	6
Explaining the penetrating role of technology in online foreign language learning achievement	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Centering positionality in Foreign Language Annals: Toward reflexive praxis in research and publication	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	5
An examination of the postgraduation benefits of earning a Seal of Biliteracy	5
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Exploring the learning benefits of website‐delivered pragmatics instruction: The case of L2 Mandarin Chinese	5
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	5
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates: Secondary school academic and language achievement	5
EDITOR'S MESSAGE	5
Learning to teach world language online during COVID‐19 pandemic: A phenomenographic study	5
Issue Information ‐ TOC	5
Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers	4
Exploring critical AI literacy in language education: A case study	4
President's message	4
What makes video‐based academic lectures difficult for language learners to comprehend? The role of multimodal complexity	4
Deconstructing the myth of Standard German: Navigating language ideologies in the L2 German university classroom	4
Analytic visual word recognition among Chinese L2 learners	4
Issue Information ‐ Ed Board, ACTFL Officers Page	4
Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level	4
Receptive vocabulary knowledge in L2 learners of Spanish: The role of high‐frequency words	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
Leveraging the AAPPL to promote positive washback in K‐12 language teaching	4
Imagining Black futures in world language education	4
Patching The Leaky Bucket: Understanding WL teacher identity‐agency and attrition	4
The effect of NNS–NNS and NNS–NS videoconferencing on the development of second language confidence	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion	3
The effect of the conceptual metaphor theory on the teaching of orientation idioms in teaching Turkish as a foreign language	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
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
The other side of heritage language education: Understanding Spanish heritage language teachers in the United States	3
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
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3
Issue Information ‐ TOC	3

Exploring the experiences of heritage speakers as world language teachers of Spanish: Professional experiences and challenges	3
The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean	3