OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Teaching 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
Global Englishes and language teaching: A review of pedagogical research	71
Race and language teaching	68
Investment and motivation in language learning: What's the difference?	52
Research into practice: Virtual exchange in language teaching and learning	35
Sociocultural theory and concept-based language instruction	27
English language education in Indonesia: A review of research (2011–2019)	27
Oral fluency in a second language: A research agenda for the next ten years	26
Data-driven learning – a call for a broader research gaze	25
Second or foreign language learning through watching audio-visual input and the role of on-screen text	24
Language learner autonomy: Rethinking language teaching	22
Dynamic Assessment and second language development	20
Research tasks on ethics in applied linguistics	19
Assessing young learners’ foreign language abilities	18
Collaborative writing in L2 classrooms: A research agenda	18
Defining English Medium Instruction: Striving for comparative equivalence	17
Technology-mediated task-based language teaching: A research agenda	16
The influence of orthography in second language phonological acquisition	16
Ecological systems theory and second language research	16
Word association research and the L2 lexicon	15
Translanguaging in education	15
English Medium Instruction: What do we know so far and what do we still need to find out?	13
Research into practice: CLIL in South America	13
Using elicited imitation to measure global oral proficiency in SLA research: A close replication study	13
Language learning and emotion	13
Is ESP a materials and teaching-led movement?	12

Evidence in favor of a strategy-based model for English pronunciation instruction	12
Multilingualism in academic writing for publication: Putting English in its place	11
How effective is second language incidental vocabulary learning? A meta-analysis	10
Language socialization and academic discourse in English as a Foreign Language contexts: A research agenda	10
Glossing and vocabulary learning	10
Motivational connections in language classrooms: A research agenda	10
Critical language pedagogy	10
Reflecting on task-based language teaching from an Instructed SLA perspective	9
L2 classroom interaction and its links to L2 learners’ developing L2 linguistic repertoires: A research agenda	9
From replication to substantiation: A complexity theory perspective	9
Speech acts and interaction in second language pragmatics: A position paper	9
Classroom-based assessment	9
Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference 2021	9
The Global ELT coursebook: A case of Cinderella's slipper?	9
Emergent STEM lecturer identities: The shaping effects of EMI in action in an internationalised and Englishised HE context	8
Native-speakerism and non-native second language teachers: A research agenda	8
Transformative pedagogy for inclusion and social justice through translanguaging, co-learning, and transpositioning	8
The third wind of language learning strategies research	7
Planning in L1 and L2 writing: Working memory, process, and product	7
Open scholarship in applied linguistics: What, why, and how	7
One norm to rule them all? Corpus-derived norms in learner corpus research and foreign language teaching	7
The trends and developments of L2 Japanese research in the 2010s	7
Proper name theory and implications for second language reading	6
Revalidation of the L2-Grit scale: A conceptual replication of Teimouri, Y., Plonsky, L., & Tabandeh, F. (2022). L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning	6
Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Denver, USA, March 2020	6
Applied corpus linguistics for language acquisition, pedagogy, and beyond	5
Analysing culture in language learning materials	5
Second language speech comprehensibility	5
Navigating the research–practice relationship: Professional goals and constraints	5
Research on the role of recasts in L2 learning	5
Multimodal input in second-language speech processing	5
Review of recent empirical research (2011–2018) on language assessment in China	5
Research on “native” and “non-native” English-speaking teachers: Past developments, current status, and future directions	5
Transitioning from conversation analysis to mixed methods	5
Student support and teacher education in English for Academic Purposes and English Medium Instruction: Two sides of the same coin?	5