OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Modern Language Journal 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Notes from the Editor	151
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	74
Erratum	51
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek	40
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency	37
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom	28
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 2	25
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Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context	22
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	22
Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States	20
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice	20
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking	20
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools	18
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Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom	17
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions	16
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NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants	15

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A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions	15
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study	14
Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad	14
The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements	14
Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective	13
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	13
Index to Volume 107, 2023	13
Issue Information ‐ TOC	12
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant	12
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)	12
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department	11
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning	11
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Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers	11
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages¹	11
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect	11
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education	10
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Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality	10
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation	10
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Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms	10
Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech	10
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction	10
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Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing	9
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice	9
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices	8
The Effects of Textually Enhanced Captions on Written Elicited Imitation in L2 Grammar	8
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction	8
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Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom	8
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective	8
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking	8
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging	8
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue	8
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria	7
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Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education	7
Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study	7
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)	7
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class	7
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data	6
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program	6
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences	6

Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary	6
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users	6
THE ISSUE	6
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward	6
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude	6
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	6
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response	5
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 2	5
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients in 2021	5
Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects	5
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword	5
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction	5
NFMLTA grant programs	5
Fairness, Justice, and the Certification of Teaching Competence for International Teaching Assistants	4
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education	4
Erratum	4
Japanese Students’ Emotional Lived Experiences in English Language Learning, Learner Identities, and Their Transformation	4
Is English the Culprit? Longitudinal Associations Between Students’ Value Beliefs in English, German, and French in Multilingual Switzerland	4
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning	4
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Explanations for language choice in the social context of the L2 classroom	3
At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad	3
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Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project	3
Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach	3
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109, 2	3
Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments	3
Monolingual and multilingual teacher candidates: A critical language‐related events analysis	3
A Meta‐Analysis of Hybrid Language Instruction and Call for Future Research	3
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations	3
Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners: Contributions of cognitive and affective factors	3
Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework	3
Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power	2
Index to Volume 106, 2022	2
Helping learners develop autonomy in acquiring multiword expressions	2
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Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education	2
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Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities	2
Modeling mediation in the dynamic assessment of listening ability from the cognitive diagnostic perspective	2
Academic Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning: An Investigation of Language‐Specific Grit and Its Conceptual Correlates	2
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Emotions and the language‐ness of experience in heritage language lives	2
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106 (Supplement 2022)	2
Can Japanese learners of English comprehend inflectional and derivational forms in listening? Testing the validity of the word family counting unit	2
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks	1
Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching	1
Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students	1
Spoken word choreographies in additional language learning practices in upper secondary school: Entanglements between languaging‐and‐dancing	1
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The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future	1
Individual differences in L1 attainment and language aptitude predict L2 achievement in instructed language learners	1
A translanguager's take on a synergy‐driven SLA/T	1
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Implementation of an Uncontrolled, Real‐World Task: Vocabulary Learning Opportunities and Students’ Perceptions	1
Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching	1
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation	1
The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing	1
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Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility	1
Diversity within unity	1
Does spaced practice have the same effects on different second language vocabulary learning activities? Fill‐in‐the‐blanks versus flashcards	1
An asymmetrical partnership: The shifting onus of Hmong heritage language teaching from families to dual‐language programs	1
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning	1
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture	1
Undoing cislingualism	1
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	1
Bringing the body into play: The corporeal aspect in second language acquisition	1
Language classrooms as communicative settings for learners’ development of sociolinguistic competence during study abroad	1
The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences	1
Stories of struggle and resilience: Examining the experiences of two Spanish teachers through history in person	1
Introduction to the guest‐edited issue: Synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	1
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