OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of RELC Journal is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘A Necessity or Luxury?’ Publishing Practitioner Research in Language Education and Higher Education	378
Pedagogizing Identity: Why it Matters, and Where do we go from Here?	167
Reshaping Language Learners’ Languaging Habitus: A World-Englishes-Informed Critical Pedagogy	73
Book Review: Transnational Identities and Practices in English Language Teaching: Critical Inquiries from Diverse Practitioners	58
One Does Not Simply Teach Idioms: Meme Creation as Innovative Practice for Virtual EFL Learners	55
Translanguaging and Trans-Semiotizing for Critical Integration of Content and Language in Plurilingual Educational Settings	53
Critical Autoethnographic Narrative for Language Teacher Identity Development	43
Exploratory Practice as a Professional Development Strategy for English-Language Teachers in Indonesia	40
Making the Case for Brain-friendly Pronunciation Instruction	38
Corrigendum to “Hybrid teaching: What is it? How do we do it”	36
Language Teacher Identity and English Education Policy in Japan: Competing Discourses Surrounding “Non-native” English-speaking Teachers	34
Engaging L2 Learners in Information-gap Tasks: How Task Type and Topic Familiarity Affect Learner Engagement	32
Book Review: Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology	29
Grammarly’s Tone Detector: Helping Students Write Pragmatically Appropriate Texts	27
Sustaining Short-Term Exchange Students’ Willingness to Communicate in Second Language in Multilingual Classrooms	25
Glocalizing ELT Reform in China: A Perspective from the Use of English in the Workplace	24
English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Coursebook Adaptation Practices: A Latent Profile Analysis	24
Book Review: Evaluating Second Language Vocabulary and Grammar Instruction: A Synthesis of the Research on Teaching Words, Phrases, and Patterns	22
Effects of Prior English Exposure on Hong Kong Tertiary Science Students’ Experiences in EMI Learning	22
The Revision Effects of Varying Degrees of Written Corrective Feedback Explicitness on L2 Learners’ Writings	20
Pedagogizing Identity in Teacher Education Through Critical Autoethnographic Narrative	20
Introducing Translanguaging in an EAP Course at a Joint-Venture University in China	20
Using Multimodal Public Service Announcement Video Projects as Communicative Language Assessments	19
Making Sense of a Puzzling Activity: Awakening to Languages in an English as an Additional Language Classroom	19
“You are Here”: Transnational Teachers’ Becoming Between Symbolic and Sociomaterial Spaces	17

Directed Motivational Currents in Second Language: Investigating the Effects of Positive and Negative Feedback on Energy Investment and Goal Commitment	17
Negotiating Identity Tensions: Challenges of an Online Volunteer English Language Teacher in Rural China	17
Probing into Non-native Learners’ Written Accuracy: Does Feedback Type Matter?	16
Supporting the Teaching of Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) Through Voki	15
Exploring Early-Career EFL Teachers’ Engagement in Professional Learning: Teaching Beliefs and Professional Values	15
Incorporating World Englishes into Middle and High Schools in Korea: Teachers’ Awareness and Attitudes	15
Collaborative Materials Design: How a School Teacher, a University Researcher, and a Professional Textbook Writer Interact	13
Language Teachers Actualising Their Vision: An Identity-Focused Approach to Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development	13
Book Review: Research on Teaching and Learning English in Under-Resourced Contexts	13
Book Review: Assessing Second Language Reading: Insights from Cloze Tests	13
Issues of Error Selection for Focused Written Corrective Feedback in Authentic Classroom Contexts	12
Strengthening Teacher–Student Rapport Through the Practice of Guided Dialogue Journaling	12
Leveraging Flip, a Video Discussion Platform, to Support the Needs of International ESL Pre-Service Teachers	11
The Effects of Communication Strategy Training on Speaking Task Performance	11
Queer Pedagogy in TESOL: Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices in Thai ELT Classrooms	11
Exploring Language Teacher Identity and Investment: In Discussion with Bonny Norton	11
Teacher Agency in Creating a Translingual Space in Nepal’s Multilingual English-Medium Schools	10
Post-elicitation Wait Time in the Japanese University English as a Foreign Language Classroom	10
Language Assessment Literacy Development of a Novice University English Teacher in the Chinese Context	10
Gather.Town: A Gamification Tool to Promote Engagement and Establish Online Learning Communities for Language Learners	10
Using Call Annie as a Generative Artificial Intelligence Speaking Partner for Language Learners	10
Twee: Artificial Intelligence Assistant to Generate Versatile Materials for Language Education	10
Pragmatics and Instructional Pragmatics in Second/Foreign Language Preservice Teacher Education: A Case Study in Australia and Vietnam	9
An Exploratory Study on Two Automated Item Generators for Generating L2 Reading Test Items	9
Extending the L2 Motivational Self System to the Global EAL Classroom	8
Artificial Intelligence in English Language Teaching: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	8
ChatGPT Over My Friends: Japanese English-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners’ Preferences for Editing and Proofreading Strategies	8
Responses of the English-Language-Teaching Community to the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Test-Takers’ Perceptions of the Inclusion of Different English Accent Varieties in the IELTS Listening Tests	7
‘Do as WE Do’: Teaching World Englishes in a General English Course to Thai Students	7
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology for English Writing: Introducing Wordtune as a Digital Writing Assistant for EFL Writers	7
Implementing Extensive Graded Reading in English as a Foreign Language Teaching Through Newsela	6
Editorial	6
Intersectionality Between Race and Nonnative English Speaker Status in Language Teacher Identities: What Educators Should Know	6
Effects of Automated Feedback on English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Writing Performance: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment	6
Initial Development of a Second Language Discussion Task-Specific Self-Efficacy Instrument: An Illustration for Frontline Researchers	6
Message from Outgoing Editor, Professor Jack C. Richards	5
Technology in English Language Teaching and Learning: An Interview with Professor Greg Kessler	5
Sketching the Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Experiences Designed by Taiwanese High School English Teachers	5
Realizing the Sustainability of Portfolio Assessment in Second-Language Writing	5
Inclusive Transnational Education Partnerships: A Case Study of a Master of Arts in TESOL Program	5
Deepening the Understanding of Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language: A Conversation with Professor Li Wei	4
Teachers’ Mindsets about L2 Learning: Exploring the Influences on Pedagogical Practices	4
Note-taking in Academic Listening: A Translanguaging Perspective	4
The Teaching of Science Subjects through Foreign Languages in Moroccan Secondary Schools: Science Teachers’ Perceptions and Experiences	4
Which English Should We Stand For? Voices from Lecturers in Thai Multicultural Universities	4
Speeko: An Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Personal Public Speaking Coach	4
In Conversation with Ernesto Macaro on English Medium Instruction	4
Collaborative Peer Mentoring in a Practicum: An Innovative Strategy to Cope with Teaching Anxiety	4
Move Up the Fluency Ladder: Introducing Deep English as an Artificial Intelligence Speaking Tool for Speakers of English as a Foreign Language	4

Essential Lecturer Competencies in English Medium Instruction: A Study Across Student Proficiency Levels	4
In Conversation with Peter De Costa	4
Online Learner Engagement: Insights from a University Language Centre	4
Language Teacher Education, Reading, and Curriculum Change in Southeast Asia: A Laotian Perspective	4
Book Review: Linguistic Diversity on the EMI Campus: Insider Accounts of the Use of English and Other Languages in Universities within Asia, Australasia, and Europe	4
What is Most and Least Enjoyable in the EFL Classroom? A Large-scale Inductive Qualitative Study	4