OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Testing 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	26
Book Reviews: Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity J. Fox and N. Artemeva	24
The typology of second language listening constructs: A systematic review	17
Reading is a multidimensional construct at child-L2-English-literacy onset, but comprises fewer dimensions over time: Evidence from multidimensional IRT analysis	17
Fairness of using different English accents: The effect of shared L1s in listening tasks of the Duolingo English test	16
Hong Kong secondary students’ perspectives on selecting test difficulty level and learner washback: Effects of a graded approach to assessment	14
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	14
Can language test providers do more to support Open Science? A response to Winke	14
But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy	14
Critical language assessment literacy of EFL teachers: Scale construction and validation	13
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing	13
Book review: Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice	12
Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT)	11
Book review: Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts: Lessons from the Transition to Online Testing During Covid-19	11
Book Review: Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its companion volume	10
The distribution of cognates and their impact on response accuracy in the EIKEN tests	9
Administration, labor, and love	9
Sharing, collaborating, and building trust: How Open Science advances language testing	9
A Global South perspective on Open Science in language assessment: A response to Winke	9
Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	8
Making each point count: Revising a local adaptation of the Jacobs et al.’s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE rubric	8
Forty years of Language Testing, and the changing paths of publishing	8
Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile	8
Critical discursive approaches to evaluating policy-driven testing: Social impact as a target for validation	7
Developing internet-based Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL): An open research endeavour	7

Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	7
IRT-based classification analysis of an English language reading proficiency subtest	7
Book review: From assessment to feedback by Inez De Florio	7
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	7
Test Review: The International English Language Testing System (IELTS)	7
Book Review: Assessing Speaking in Context—Expanding the Construct and its Applications	7
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	6
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	6
Assessing speaking through multimodal oral presentations: The case of construct underrepresentation in EAP contexts	5
Aptis test review	5
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	5
Application of an Automated Essay Scoring engine to English writing assessment using Many-Facet Rasch Measurement	5
What can gaze behaviors, neuroimaging data, and test scores tell us about test method effects and cognitive load in listening assessments?	5
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	5
Roles of working memory, syllogistic inferencing ability, and linguistic knowledge on second language listening comprehension for passages of different lengths	5
Review of the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP)	5
Language testers and their place in the policy web	5
Towards more valid scoring criteria for integrated reading-writing and listening-writing summary tasks	5
The effect of viewing visual cues in a listening comprehension test on second language learners’ test-taking process and performance: An eye-tracking study	4
Who succeeds and who fails? Exploring the role of background variables in explaining the outcomes of L2 language tests	4
Open Science practices in language assessment: Introducing the special issue	4
Open Science in language assessment research contexts: A reply to Winke	4
Test score comparison tables: How well are they serving test users?	4
A systematic review of differential item functioning in second language assessment	4
Ukrainian language proficiency test review	4
The use of generalizability theory in investigating the score dependability of classroom-based L2 reading assessment	4
Diagnosing Chinese EFL learners’ writing ability using polytomous cognitive diagnostic models	4
Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements	4
Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?	4
The moderating role of L2 proficiency in the predictive power of L1 fluency on L2 utterance fluency	4
Toward a systematic accessibility review process for English language proficiency tests for young learners	4
Corrigendum	4
Future challenges and opportunities in language testing and assessment: Basic questions and principles at the forefront	4
Register variation in spoken and written language use across technology-mediated and non-technology-mediated learning environments	4
Advancing equity in language assessment for learners with disabilities	4
Book review: Another Generation of Fundamental Considerations in Language Assessment: A Festschrift in Honor of Lyle F. Bachman	3
A sequential approach to detecting differential rater functioning in sparse rater-mediated assessment networks	3
Examining the factor structure and its replicability across multiple listening test forms: Validity evidence for the Michigan English Test	3
Fairness and justice in language testing: The challenge of Tim McNamara’s legacy	3
Reframing the discourse and rhetoric of language testing and assessment for the public square	3
Book Review: Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad	3
Accommodations in language testing and assessment: Safeguarding equity, access, and inclusion	3
Operationalizing the reading-into-writing construct in analytic rating scales: Effects of different approaches on rating	3
Innovation and expansion in Language Testing for changing times	3
Book review: Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing	3
Open Science and the next generation of language testing research	3
Modeling local item dependence in C-tests with the loglinear Rasch model	2
Correction Note	2
Book Review: Challenges in Language Testing Around the World: Insights for Language Test Users	2
Review of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test	2

Authenticity of academic lecture passages in high-stakes tests: A temporal fluency perspective	2
A Context-Aligned Two Thousand Test: Toward estimating high-frequency French vocabulary knowledge for beginner-to-low intermediate proficiency adolescent learners in England	2
Assessing the speaking proficiency of L2 Chinese learners: Review of the Hanyu Shuiping Kouyu Kaoshi	2
Speaking task design and complexity and fluency features of adolescent English learners	2
Book Review: Multilingual Testing and Assessment	2
Responsibilities and opportunities in language testing with respect to historicized forms of socio-political discrimination: A matter of academic citizenship	2
What the analytic versus holistic scoring of international teaching assistants can reveal: Lexical grammar matters	2
Argument-based validation of Academic Collocation Tests	2
Open Access in language testing and assessment: The case of two flagship journals	2
Test-taker insights for language assessment policies and practices	2
Assessing the content quality of essays in content and language integrated learning: Exploring the construct from subject specialists’ perspectives	2
Revisiting raters’ accent familiarity in speaking tests: Evidence that presentation mode interacts with accent familiarity to variably affect comprehensibility ratings	2
Open Science for language assessment research and practice in China: A response to Winke	2
The vexing problem of validity and the future of second language assessment	2
Language Testing behind the scenes: New capabilities, groundbreaking developments, and disruptive forces	2