OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern Language Journal is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Notes from the Editor	61
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Transnational literacy experiences and chronotopic identity work: A duoethnography of returnee English language teachers in China	37
On the need of pluralism and common ground in SLA	35
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek	30
On the matter of matter in second language education: A “mixed” review of current research	29
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom	27
Developing L2 semantic knowledge of English modality through concept‐based language instruction: Do cognitive linguistics materials have an advantage?	26
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency	25
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Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States	23
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 2	23
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context	22
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Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice	22
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	21
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 110 (Supplement 2026)	21
Issue Information ‐ TOC	20
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Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom	20
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	19
The demographic landscape of Spanish language teaching research: A cross‐national study	19
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions	19
Advocating theoretical plurality and methodological flexibility toward humanistic synergy in SLA/T research: A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	19

Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	18
Issue Information ‐ TOC	18
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools	18
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants	18
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	17
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions	17
Trans ‐ing in education to confront polarizing forces in our increasingly interconnected world	16
A nuclear families word list for French	16
EDITORS’ NOTE	16
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study	16
Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning?	16
Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad	15
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant	15
Issue Information ‐ TOC	15
Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective	15
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education	15
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	15
Index to Volume 107, 2023	15
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)	15
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages¹	14
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Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech	13
Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers	13
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning	13
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms	12
Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness	12
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Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect	12
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department	12
Issue Information ‐ TOC	12
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction	12
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	11
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices	11
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue	10
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing	10
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	10
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective	10
Issue Information ‐ TOC	9
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom	9
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking	9
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice	9
The effect of multimodal input on L2 learners' reading comprehension: A preregistered eye‐tracking study	8
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction	8
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)	8
THE ISSUE: Re‐envisioning language education for a multilingual world	8
Multilingual education in unequal contexts: Structural barriers to making all repertoires count in the global south	8
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging	8
Crisis talk: Absolutism versus pluralism is SLA studies. A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	7
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
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class	6
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward	6
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	6
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users	6
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude	6
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Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program	6
THE ISSUE	6