OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Transformative Pedagogies for English Teaching: Teachers and Students Building Social Justice Together	114
The Effects of CLIL and Sources of Individual Differences on Receptive and Productive EFL Skills at the Onset of Primary School	78
The Minority Language as a Second Language: Challenges and Achievements	55
Motivation, Autonomy, and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning: A Multi-Perspective Investigation in Hungary	52
A Call for Methodological Reflexivity in Researching Language Testing and Migration	46
Vera Sotirovska and Margaret Vaughn: Enhancing Educators’ Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Critical Literacy	45
Metapragmatic Knowledge and Transfer of Learning across Speech Acts	40
Effects of Classroom Instruction on the Development of L2 Interactional Resource for Joint Stance Taking: Use of Japanese Interactional ParticleYoin Spontaneous Peer Conversation	38
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions	36
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time	34
COVID-19 Online Medical Consultation: Understanding the Affective Practice	33
Suresh Canagarajah: LANGUAGE INCOMPETENCE: LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE THROUGH CANCER, DISABILITY, AND ANOMALOUS EMBODIMENT	30
Notes On Contributors	30
Translingual Practices: Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver, and Li Wei	28
“Becoming a Linguist: Advice from Key Thinkers in Language Studies”	28
Automatic Analysis of Constructional Diversity as a Predictor of EFL Students’ Writing Proficiency	27
Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education	25
Research Engagement and Research Culture in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT): Empowering the Profession	23
Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging The Invention of Multilingualism	22
Revisiting US Undergraduate Perceptions of Non-native English Varieties: From Millennials to Generation Z	21
Translanguaging and Educational Inequality in the Global South: Stance-taking amongst Brazilian Teachers of English	21
Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing	21
Gig Economy Teaching: On the Importance and Dangers of Self-branding in Online Markets	20
Open Access Academic Lectures as Sources for Incidental Vocabulary Learning: Examining the Role of Input Mode, Frequency, Type of Vocabulary, and Elaboration	19
Researching language at street level: In memory of Vivian Cook and review of The Language of the English Street Sign	19

Voice and Voicing Strategies Across Native and Second Language Writing: Extending the Interactional Metadiscourse Framework	18
Challenging Folk-Linguistics: Grammatical and Spelling Variation in Students’ Writing in Hebrew on WhatsApp and in Essays	18
#FleeingWuhan: Legitimation and Delegitimation Strategies in Hostile Online Discourse	18
Language tester identity in policy contexts: A narrative analytical approach	17
Towards Clarification of the Second Language Learner Engagement Construct: Taking Stock of its Conceptual Overlap and Hierarchical Structure	17
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis	16
Corrigendum to: Beyond Differences: Assessing Effects of Shared Linguistic Features on L2 Writing Quality of Two Genres	16
Language and Culture as Sources of Inequality in US Police Interrogations	15
Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	15
Fact vs. fiction in professional speechwriting	15
What Makes an Ideal Partner? African Libraries and Neoliberal Discourses in International Development	15
Which Words Matter Most? Operationalizing Lexical Prevalence For Rank-Ordered Word Lists	15
A semiotic study of small-detailed signs in North America vernacular landscape	15
The ‘Existential Fabric’ of War: Explaining the Phrase of War in the Laws of War	14
Self-access Strategy Instruction for Academic Writing Vocabulary: What Learners Actually Do	14
Correction to: A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education	13
Variation in Metadiscourse across Speech and Writing: A Multidimensional Study	13
Empowering Students Through the Construction of a Translanguaging Space in an English as a First Language Classroom	13
Culture travellers: Theorizing transculturing through transcultural fandom in the GenAI age	13
Notes on Contributors	12
British Conversation is Changing: Resonance and Engagement in the BNC1994 and the BNC2014	12
Self-Regulated Learning and Knowledge Blindness: Bringing Language into View	12
Choreographies of Multilingualism. Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore.	12
Erratum to: Lexical Access in L1 Attrition—Competition versus Frequency: A Comparison of Turkish and Moroccan Attriters in the Netherlands	12
Verb semantic cohesion in L2 production: a semantic network analysis of written and spoken modalities by Korean EFL learners	11
A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education	11
Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions	11
Practice and Automatization in Second Language Research: Perspectives From Skill Acquisition Theory and Cognitive Psychology	11
The Relationship Between L2 Interactional Competence and Proficiency	10
Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages in Old Adulthood? Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Intervention Study	10
English in China: Creativity and commodificationCapital, commodity, and English language teaching	10
Writing Trajectories of Grammatical Complexity at the University: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers in BAWE	10
Gregory Hadley and Andrew Boon: Critical Thinking	10
Managing the Flow of Talk: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Multiword Expression det er sant in L2 Norwegian Interactions	9
Generative AI and its dilemmas: exploring AI from a translanguaging perspective	9
Engaging with language play: practices of Korean English teachers in elementary classrooms	9
Notes on Contributors	9
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications: 1985–2020	9
“It’s very well written!”: Revisiting praise in teacher written feedback from the perspective of feedback literacy	9
Two Sources of Miscommunication in Oncology Consultations: An Observational Study Using Conversation Analysis	9
Adopting social process tracing in applied linguistics: Lessons from an English-medium Instruction policy case study	9
COVID-19 vaccination campaigns for diverse language groups in Pennsylvania/USA and Western Cape/South Africa: Examples from national and sub-national levels	8
Transitioning between ‘Outside’ and ‘Inside’ Knowledge in an Online University EMI Chemistry Course	8
Teachers Reflecting on Boredom in the Language Classroom: Mirosław Pawlak, Mariusz Kruk, and Joanna Zawodniak	8
Correction to: Manner and Quality of Negotiation During L2 Collaborative Writing	8
Jean Wong and Hansun Zhang Waring: Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers	8
A Decolonial Crip Linguistics	7
Language Assemblages	7
‘Mentor, friend, teacher, and learner’: The beauty, opportunities, and challenges of heritage speakers as heritage language educators	7
An exploration of psychological capital resources, mindfulness, L2 grit, and L2 achievement: An explanatory mixed-methods study	7

The Comprehensibility and Appreciation of Non-Binary Pronouns in Newspaper Reporting. The Case of Hen and Die in Dutch	7
The Handbook Of Usage-Based Linguistics	7
Linguistic and Geographic Diversity in Research on Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism: An Analysis of Selected Journals	7
Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data	7
Teaching Styles in North American University Classrooms: A Corpus-Driven Linguistic Analysis	7
Commentary: Epistemological Positionalities	7
Correction to: Connecting Extramural English with ELT: Teacher Reports from Austria, Finland, France and Sweden	6
L2 Pragmatic Development in Constructing and Negotiating Contextual Meanings	6
Correction	6
Formal Linguistics and Language Education. New Empirical Perspectives	6
The Discourse of Digital Activism: A Linguistic Analysis of Calls for Action Concerning the Fashion Revolution	6
Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency: Motivation, cognition and identity	6
Comparative analysis of epistemic stance in abstracts of published biomedical research and associated National Institutes of Health funding applications (1985–2020)	6
The development and trends of complex dynamic systems theory in applied linguistics: A bibliometric analysis from 1997 to 2023	5
Examining English language learners’ longitudinal development of syntactic complexity across five CEFR levels with a robust measurement design: A mixed-methods approach	5
Belonging-in-Interaction: Expressing and Performing Translocal Belongings Through Language and Arts Practice	5
Rethinking translanguaging: (Trans)bordering, spatiality, and academic discourse socialization in a graduate TESOL classroom	5
Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines	5
Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research	5
Into Collabs: Public Applied Linguistics and Hip Hop Language Technicians	5
Notes On Contributors	5
Linguistic discrimination and resistance: Puerto Rican youth language ideologies	5
Enhancing disciplinary voice through feedback-seeking in AI-assisted doctoral writing for publication	5