OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern Language Journal is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Control–Value Theory Approach to Boredom in English Classes Among University Students in China	97
The Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale	65
Tracking the Evolution of Chinese Learners’ Multilingual Motivation Through a Longitudinal Q Methodology	48
The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future	40
Empirically Defining Language Learning and Teaching Materials in Use Through Sociomaterial Perspectives	40
Academic Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning: An Investigation of Language‐Specific Grit and Its Conceptual Correlates	38
The Relationship Between Utterance and Perceived Fluency: A Meta‐Analysis of Correlational Studies	36
How Effective Are Intentional Vocabulary‐Learning Activities? A Meta‐Analysis	33
Incidental Vocabulary Learning Through Listening to Teacher Talk	33
Continuing to Explore the Multidimensional Nature of Lexical Sophistication: The Case of Oral Proficiency Interviews	30
Translation as Translingual Writing Practice in English as an Additional Language	24
Rewilding Language Education: Emergent Assemblages and Entangled Actions	24
Land as Interlocutor: A Study of Ojibwe Learner Language in Interaction on and With Naturally Occurring ‘Materials’	23
Mindsets Matter for Linguistic Minority Students: Growth Mindsets Foster Greater Perceived Proficiency, Especially for Newcomers	22
Emergency Remote Language Teaching and U.S.‐Based College‐Level World Language Educators’ Intention to Adopt Online Teaching in Postpandemic Times	22
Navigating the Challenges of L2 Reading: Self‐Efficacy, Self‐Regulatory Reading Strategies, and Learner Profiles	21
Pathways Forward for Indigenous Language Reclamation: Engaging Indigenous Epistemology and Learning by Observing and Pitching in to Family and Community Endeavors	20
The Dynamic Multicausality of Age of First Bilingual Language Exposure: Evidence From a Longitudinal Content and Language Integrated Learning Study With Dense Time Serial Measurements	19
Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices: The Ethics of Quantitative Data Handling and Reporting in Applied Linguistics	19
Grammatical and Lexical Development During Short‐Term Study Abroad: Exploring L2 Contact and Initial Proficiency	19
Toward the Establishment of a Data‐Driven Learning Model: Role of Learner Factors in Corpus‐Based Second Language Vocabulary Learning	18
Digital Game‐Based Learning of Formulaic Expressions in Second Language Chinese	17
Student Self‐Initiated Use of Smartphones in Multilingual Writing Classrooms: Making Learner Agency and Multiple Involvements Visible	17
Coda: An Expanding Research Agenda for the Use of Instructional Materials	16
Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality	16

Cognitive and Socioaffective Predictors of L2 Microdevelopment in Late Adulthood: A Longitudinal Intervention Study	16
Pronunciation Can Be Acquired Outside the Classroom: Design and Assessment of Homework‐Based Training	16
After Study Abroad: The Maintenance of Multilingual Identity Among Anglophone Languages Graduates	15
Small Samples in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research	15
Analytic Versus Holistic Recognition of Chinese Words Among L2 Learners	14
May I See Your Credentials, Please? Displays of Pedagogical Expertise by Language Teaching Researchers	13
Rethinking Mobility and Language: From the Global South	13
Effect‐Driven Sample Sizes in Second Language Instructed Vocabulary Acquisition Research	13
Thriving? Or Surviving? An Approach–Avoidance Perspective on Adult Language Learners’ Motivation	12
Effects of Plurilingual Teaching on Grammatical Development in Early Foreign‐Language Learning	11
Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide Through Community‐Engaged Action Research: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration	11
Bridging the Gap Between Willingness to Communicate and Learner Talk	11
Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities	11
Learning Potentials Afforded by a Film in Task‐Based Language Classroom Interactions	10
Student Artifacts as Language Learning Materials: A New Materialist Analysis of South Korean Job Seekers’ Student‐Generated Materials Use	10
Teachers and Supervisors Negotiating Identities of Experience and Power in Feedback Talk	10
The Smartphone as a Personal Cognitive Artifact Supporting Participation in Interaction	10
Communicative Effectiveness in BELF (English as a Business Lingua Franca) Meetings: ‘Explaining’ as a Pragmatic Strategy	10
Nurturing Teachers’ Research Mindset in an Inquiry‐Based Language Teacher Education Course	10
The Negotiation of Meaning in Aviation English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus‐Informed Discursive Approach	9
Second Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward French Varieties: The Roles of Learning Experience and Social Networks	9
Collaborative Mobilizations of Interbodied Communication for Cooperative Action	9
A Q Methodology Study Into Vision of Italian L2 University Students: An Australian Perspective	9
Exploring Evolving Motivation to Learn Two Languages Simultaneously in a Study‐Abroad Context	8
The Role of Language Teacher Metacognition and Executive Function in Exemplary Classroom Practice	8
Toward a New Multilingual Educational Policy in Israel: Attitudes and Perceptions of Teachers and Students	8
Localized Globalization: Directives in Augmented Reality Game Interaction	8
Emergent L2 Grammars in and for Social Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
“I Look Mexican, So They Assume I Speak Spanish”: Latinx Teacher Candidates’ Experiences With Raciolinguistic Policing	8
Materials‐in‐Action: Pedagogical Ergonomics of a French‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom	8
Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study	8
Translingual and Transcultural Reflection in Study Abroad: The Case of a Vietnamese‐American Student in Guatemala	8
By the Old Gods and the New: The Effect of the Congruence and Incongruence of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Enjoyment on Self‐Perceived Proficiency	7
Stance‐Taking in Heritage Language Writing	7
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning	7
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective	7
Space Oddities: The Acquisition of Agreement Verbs by L2 Learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands	6
Sociomateriality of Semiscripted Pair‐Work Prompts in Beginner‐Level Japanese‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classrooms	6
At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad	6
Performance Profiles on Second Language Speaking Tasks	6
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice	6
Noun‐Phrase Complexity Measures in Chinese and Their Relationship to L2 Chinese Writing Quality: A Comparison with Topic–Comment‐Unit‐Based Measures	6
Retention and Attrition in Early‐Career Foreign Language Teachers in Austria and the United Kingdom	6
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks	5
The Relative Contribution of Language Complexity to Second Language Video Lectures Difficulty Assessment	5
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking	5
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue	5
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning	5
Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad	5

Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)	5
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	5
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms	5
Identification and Characteristics of Strong, Average, and Weak Foreign Language Readers: The Simple View of Reading Model	5
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction	5
Irony Comprehension in Bidialectal Speakers	5
Toward Cognitive and Temporal Mobility: Language Considerations in Refugee Education	5
Japanese Students’ Emotional Lived Experiences in English Language Learning, Learner Identities, and Their Transformation	5