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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Notes from the Editor	147
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Issue Information ‐ TOC	72
Erratum	51
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency	39
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek	37
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 2	30
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Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice	23
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking	23
Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States	21
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	21
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context	20
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools	18
Issue Information ‐ TOC	18
Issue Information ‐ TOC	18
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom	18
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Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	17
Issue Information ‐ TOC	16
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions	16
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	15
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions	15
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	15

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

From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	6
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary	6
THE ISSUE	6
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Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program	6
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users	6
NFMLTA grant programs	6