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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Notes from the Editor	151
	108
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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In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	22
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context	22
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking	20
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
Issue Information ‐ TOC	18
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools	18
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom	17
Issue Information ‐ TOC	16
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	16
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
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	15
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions	15

Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	15
Issue Information ‐ TOC	15
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
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study	14
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	13
Index to Volume 107, 2023	13
Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective	13
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant	12
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)	12
Issue Information ‐ TOC	12
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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
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
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
Issue Information ‐ TOC	10
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education	10
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	10
Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality	10
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation	10
Issue Information ‐ TOC	10
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms	10
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice	9
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page	9
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing	9
Issue Information ‐ TOC	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
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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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
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria	7
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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
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