OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of RELC Journal is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Probing into Non-native Learners’ Written Accuracy: Does Feedback Type Matter?	595
Directed Motivational Currents in Second Language: Investigating the Effects of Positive and Negative Feedback on Energy Investment and Goal Commitment	253
Corrigendum to “Hybrid teaching: What is it? How do we do it”	105
Book Review: Assessing Second Language Reading: Insights from Cloze Tests	90
Book Review: Research on Teaching and Learning English in Under-Resourced Contexts	85
Exploratory Practice as a Professional Development Strategy for English-Language Teachers in Indonesia	75
Language Assessment Literacy Development of a Novice University English Teacher in the Chinese Context	54
Critical Autoethnographic Narrative for Language Teacher Identity Development	46
Gather.Town: A Gamification Tool to Promote Engagement and Establish Online Learning Communities for Language Learners	32
Queer Pedagogy in TESOL: Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices in Thai ELT Classrooms	31
Negotiating Identity Tensions: Challenges of an Online Volunteer English Language Teacher in Rural China	30
English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Coursebook Adaptation Practices: A Latent Profile Analysis	30
Collaborative Materials Design: How a School Teacher, a University Researcher, and a Professional Textbook Writer Interact	29
Artificial Intelligence in English Language Teaching: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	28
Reshaping Language Learners’ Languaging Habitus: A World-Englishes-Informed Critical Pedagogy	28
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology for English Writing: Introducing Wordtune as a Digital Writing Assistant for EFL Writers	26
Navigating Academic Language in English Medium Instruction (EMI) Science Classrooms in Hong Kong	25
Using Online Tools to Help Students Elevate Lexical Range in English-as-a-Foreign-Language Writing	24
Initial Development of a Second Language Discussion Task-Specific Self-Efficacy Instrument: An Illustration for Frontline Researchers	23
Impressing Artificial Intelligence: Automated Job Interview Training in Professional English Subjects	23
Essential Lecturer Competencies in English Medium Instruction: A Study Across Student Proficiency Levels	22
Internet-Mediated Joint Construction: Engaging Second Language Learners in Synchronous Online Writing Instruction Through ClassIn	21
Note-taking in Academic Listening: A Translanguaging Perspective	20
Book Review: English L2 Vocabulary Learning and Teaching: Concepts, Principles and Pedagogy	19
Speeko: An Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Personal Public Speaking Coach	19

Revisiting Praise as Feedback in L2 Writing: Where are we Going?	18
Empowering English Teachers to be Grammar ‘Experts’ and Coursebook Analysts via Perusall	17
Exploring the Principles Applied During the Production of an Open Writing Textbook	17
Researching Translanguaging as a Feasible Pedagogical Practice: Evidence from Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language Students’ Perceptions	16
Validating the Vocabulary Learning Strategies Used by English as a Foreign Language University Students in Taiwan	16
Integrating Automated Written Corrective Feedback into E-Portfolios for second language Writing: Notion and Notion AI	12
Emotion–Identity–Agency Triangle in Practicum Experience: A Pre-service Second Language Teacher's Development of Critical Emotional Reflexivity	11
Language Teachers as Materials Developers	11
Designing Curriculum for Student Feedback Literacy: Student Appreciation for and Engagement with Teacher Feedback	10
Perusall Encourages Critical Engagement with Reading Texts	10
Promoting Students’ Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Engagement in EFL Classrooms: Do Grit and Well-Being Matter?	10
Multimodal Digital Storytelling Presentations among Middle-School Learners of English as a Foreign Language: Emotions, Grit and Perceptions	10
Professional Communication in Intercultural Contexts: David Wei Dai in Conversation with Tony Young	10
Teaching With Technology in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Digital Age: An Interview With Professor Robert Godwin-Jones	9
Can Learners Understand Words with Derivational Affixes and Does Presence of Context Make a Difference?	9
Inferring the Meaning of Idioms: Does Accuracy Matter for Retention in Memory?	8
A Case for Teacher Inquiry Groups for Exploring Language Teacher Identity Constructions in Transnational Contexts	8
Sustaining Inclusive, Equitable, and Accessible Language Education in a COVID-19 Endemic World	8
Pedagogizing Identity in Teacher Education Through Critical Autoethnographic Narrative	8
Transformative Learning: English Language Teachers’ Experience of Engagement in Classroom Research in Singapore	8
Enhancing L2 Learners’ Self-Regulated Speaking Through Digital Oral Dialogue Journaling: An EFL Classroom-based Study	8
Cultural–Linguistic Congruence as a Moderator of Teacher Emotions: Examining AI Implementation in Vietnamese EFL Classrooms	7
Technology in English Language Teaching and Learning: An Interview with Professor Greg Kessler	7
Twee: Artificial Intelligence Assistant to Generate Versatile Materials for Language Education	7
Implementing Extensive Graded Reading in English as a Foreign Language Teaching Through Newsela	7
The Effects of Communication Strategy Training on Speaking Task Performance	7
“You are Here”: Transnational Teachers’ Becoming Between Symbolic and Sociomaterial Spaces	7
Communities Beyond the Classroom: Reflecting on a German Field Trip to a Local Non-Profit	7
Using Call Annie as a Generative Artificial Intelligence Speaking Partner for Language Learners	7
Book Review: Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology	7
Teachers’ Mindsets about L2 Learning: Exploring the Influences on Pedagogical Practices	6
Examining Team-teaching Competencies in a Taiwanese Bilingual Academic Subject Classroom: A Bilingual NEST's Autoethnography	6
Rethinking Language Education: Understanding Optimal Learning Conditions, Designing Effective Teaching, and Preparing Future-Ready Teachers	6
Teacher Research for Professional Development: The Tales of Two Teachers	6
Using a Modified Dictogloss to Improve English as a Second Language Learners’ Use of Genre-appropriate Conventions and Style	6
The Roles of Second-Language Proficiency Level and Working Memory on Vocabulary Learning from Word-Focused Exercises	6
Kialo Edu	6
Every Advantage has its Disadvantage: Side Effects of Teacher Feedback in L2 Writing	6
Book Review: Translanguaging in EFL Contexts: A Call for Change	6
Cultivating Critical Translingual Awareness: Challenges and Possibilities for Teachers and Teacher Educators	6
The Effect of First Language Transfer on Second Language Acquisition and Learning: From Contrastive Analysis to Contemporary Neuroimaging	6
Informal Digital Learning of English in Asian English as a Foreign Language Contexts: A Thematic Review	5
Creating the Conditions for Vocabulary Learning with Wordwall	5
Educational Context and Teacher Beliefs Matter: Multimodal Literacy in the Greater Bay Area of China	5
Developing Student Feedback Literacy Through Peer Review Training	5
Editorial: What is at the Heart of Teaching and Learning in a Post-pandemic Recovery World?	5
Integrating structured questioning and AI-mediated inquiry in SLA: a pedagogical innovation in EFL teacher education	5
Book Review: AI in Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment by F Pan PanF (ed.) AI in Language Teaching, Learning, and AssessmentIGI Global: Hershey, 2024; 384 pp.:	5
Korean-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners’ Engagement with Machine Translation Output	5
Effect of the Flipped Classroom on English Vocabulary and Motivation in Taiwanese Elementary School Students	5

Book Review: Research Genres Across Languages: Multilingual Communication Online	5
Book Review: Transnational Identities and Practices in English Language Teaching: Critical Inquiries from Diverse Practitioners	5
Textual Enhancement's Impact on Reading Fluency and Comprehension	5
Book Review: Micro-Reflection on Classroom Communication – A FAB Framework	5
AI and Native Speakerism: The Intersections of Technology, Language Assessment, and Linguistic Objectivity	5
Miro: Promoting Collaboration through Online Whiteboard Interaction	5
Exploring the Challenges of Technology in Language Teaching in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	5
Move Up the Fluency Ladder: Introducing Deep English as an Artificial Intelligence Speaking Tool for Speakers of English as a Foreign Language	4
Teaching Intercultural Communication in an English as a Lingua Franca Context	4
Exploring Language Teacher Identity and Investment: In Discussion with Bonny Norton	4
Effects of Automated Feedback on English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Writing Performance: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment	4
Post-elicitation Wait Time in the Japanese University English as a Foreign Language Classroom	4
Supporting the Teaching of Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) Through Voki	4
Book Review: Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition by Shawn Loewen LoewenShawnIntroduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition, 3rd edn Routledge:	4
Exploring Early-Career EFL Teachers’ Engagement in Professional Learning: Teaching Beliefs and Professional Values	4
Deepening the Understanding of Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language: A Conversation with Professor Li Wei	4
Pedagogizing Identity: Why it Matters, and Where do we go from Here?	4
Pragmatics and Instructional Pragmatics in Second/Foreign Language Preservice Teacher Education: A Case Study in Australia and Vietnam	4
L2 Students’ Gradeless Assessment of Digital Multimodal Composing: Unlocking Multiliteracies Through Rubric-referenced Multisource Feedback	3
Exploring the Effects of Online Courses on Elementary Students’ Listening, Reading Abilities and Learning Anxiety	3
‘Stop Measuring Black Kids with a White Stick’: Translanguaging for Classroom Assessment	3
Book Review: English-medium Instruction and Translanguaging	3
ELT Student Teachers’ Acceptance and Knowledge Base of Integrating Virtual Reality into Task-Based Contexts	3
Book Review: Researching Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language by Mark Feng Teng and Barry Lee Reynolds TengMark FengReynoldsBarry Lee (eds	3
Incorporating Critical Pedagogy into Second Language Teacher Education: An Identity Lens	3
English Language Teaching in the Postmodern World: RELC Journal's Contribution	3
Pre-Writing and Post-Writing Explicit Instruction: Differential Effects on L2 Learners’ Writing Accuracy	3
To Assign a Topic or Not: Examining Critical Thinking in English as a Foreign Language Speaking	3
Tomorrowland? Technical Innovation and Feedback on Writing	3
Pedagogical Translanguaging and Its Application to Language Classes	3
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies	3
Situating Shadowing in the Framework of Deliberate Practice: A Guide to Using 16 Techniques	3
Integrating Technology into Language Teaching Practice in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Digital Age: From a Korean English as a Foreign Language Context	3
English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Guide to Argument–Counterargument Skills: ProCon.org	3
Investigating STEM Secondary School Teachers’ CLIL Assessment Practices in EFL Contexts: the Repertory Grid Technique	3
Exploring the Use of Rhymes in International and Localized English Language Teaching Textbooks for Young Learners – A Comparative Study	3
Translanguaging in Language Teaching and Learning: Current Practices and Future Directions	3
Exploring a Collaborative Approach to Peer Feedback in EFL Writing: How Do Students Participate?	3
Pedogogizing Identity in Language Teacher Education	2
Virtual Distance in Project Work: What We Have Learned From the Pandemic	2
Book Review: Individual Differences in Language Learning: A Complex Systems Theory Perspective	2
Studies on Positive Evidence Feedback in Second Language Writing: Status Quo and Implications	2
Book Review: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching Benjamin Luke Moorhouse and Kevin M. Wong Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching	2
Incorporating World Englishes into Middle and High Schools in Korea: Teachers’ Awareness and Attitudes	2
English (un)Bordered: Five Principles for Reflective Translanguaging in Southeast Asian ELT	2
Hybrid teaching: What is it? How do we do it?	2
Understanding Students’ English-Speaking Difficulties: An Exploratory Practice Approach with Web 2.0	2
ChatGPT and the Future of Editorial Writing	2
Empowering Language Learners: Redefining Authentic Resources Through Community Engagement	2
Investigating Verbal Learners' Perspectives on Silence in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms in Myanmar	2
Language Teachers Actualising Their Vision: An Identity-Focused Approach to Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development	2
Sketching the Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Experiences Designed by Taiwanese High School English Teachers	2
InVideo AI: Creating Instructional Audiovisual Input for English Learning	2
Enhancing Global Englishes in Secondary Education: Addressing Student Needs Through Teacher Education and Curriculum Innovation	2
“Whoa! Incredible!:” Language Learning Experiences in Virtual Reality	2
EFL Learner Perceptions and Engagement of a Customized AI-led Class	2
Global Englishes Pedagogical Activities for English-as-a-Foreign Language Settings and Beyond: Understanding Thai Teachers’ Practices	2
Academic Success in English Medium Courses: Exploring Student Challenges, Opinions, Language Proficiency and L2 Use	2
Editorial	2