OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Testing is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Reviews: Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity J. Fox and N. Artemeva	21
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	18
The typology of second language listening constructs: A systematic review	18
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	15
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	15
But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy	15
Hong Kong secondary students’ perspectives on selecting test difficulty level and learner washback: Effects of a graded approach to assessment	14
Critical language assessment literacy of EFL teachers: Scale construction and validation	14
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing	14
Can language test providers do more to support Open Science? A response to Winke	13
Investigating construct representativeness and linguistic equity of automated oral reading fluency assessment with prosody	12
Book review: Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Development and Validation through an L2 Chinese IC Test DaiDavid Wei. Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Developmen	11
Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT)	10
Book review: Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice	10
Book Review: Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its companion volume	10
Evaluating the logic of a policy-driven national language test in Indonesia: A critical discursive investigation of the Test of Indonesian Proficiency (UKBI)	10
Book review: Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts: Lessons from the Transition to Online Testing During Covid-19	10
The distribution of cognates and their impact on response accuracy in the EIKEN tests	9
Sharing, collaborating, and building trust: How Open Science advances language testing	9
Administration, labor, and love	9
A Global South perspective on Open Science in language assessment: A response to Winke	8
Feedforwarding diagnostic language assessment: Artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven weakness identification and contextualised feedback for second language speaking	8
Forty years of Language Testing, and the changing paths of publishing	8
Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	8

Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile	8
Making each point count: Revising a local adaptation of the Jacobs et al.’s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE rubric	7
Test Review: The International English Language Testing System (IELTS)	7
Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	7
Book Review: Assessing Speaking in Context—Expanding the Construct and its Applications	7
Book review: From assessment to feedback by Inez De Florio	7
A sow’s ear purse: Developing an integrated placement test in an under-resourced English for Academic Purposes program	7
Developing internet-based Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL): An open research endeavour	7
Critical discursive approaches to evaluating policy-driven testing: Social impact as a target for validation	7
IRT-based classification analysis of an English language reading proficiency subtest	7
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	6
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	6
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	6
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	6
Roles of working memory, syllogistic inferencing ability, and linguistic knowledge on second language listening comprehension for passages of different lengths	6
The effect of viewing visual cues in a listening comprehension test on second language learners’ test-taking process and performance: An eye-tracking study	5
A systematic review of differential item functioning in second language assessment	5
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	5
Review of the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP)	5
Who succeeds and who fails? Exploring the role of background variables in explaining the outcomes of L2 language tests	5
The moderating role of L2 proficiency in the predictive power of L1 fluency on L2 utterance fluency	5
Assessing speaking through multimodal oral presentations: The case of construct underrepresentation in EAP contexts	5
Examining the consistency of instructor versus large language model ratings on summary content: Toward checklist-based feedback provision with second language writers	5
Ukrainian language proficiency test review	5
Application of an Automated Essay Scoring engine to English writing assessment using Many-Facet Rasch Measurement	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
Test score comparison tables: How well are they serving test users?	4
Toward a systematic accessibility review process for English language proficiency tests for young learners	4
Book review: Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment ChongS.ReindersH. (Eds.), Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. 333 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-18949-4	4
Comparative Judgement for evaluating young learners’ EFL writing performances: Reliability and teacher perceptions of holistic and dimension-based judgements	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
The use of generalizability theory in investigating the score dependability of classroom-based L2 reading assessment	4
Open Science in language assessment research contexts: A reply to Winke	4
Corrigendum	4
Open Science and the next generation of language testing research	4
Diagnosing Chinese EFL learners’ writing ability using polytomous cognitive diagnostic models	4
Future challenges and opportunities in language testing and assessment: Basic questions and principles at the forefront	4
Open Science practices in language assessment: Introducing the special issue	4
Accommodations in language testing and assessment: Safeguarding equity, access, and inclusion	4
Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?	4
Comparison of traditional machine learning and neural network approaches for automated scoring of second language English essays	3
Reframing the discourse and rhetoric of language testing and assessment for the public square	3
Book review: Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing	3
Modeling local item dependence in C-tests with the loglinear Rasch model	3
Speaking task design and complexity and fluency features of adolescent English learners	3
Book Review: Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad	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

Revisiting raters’ accent familiarity in speaking tests: Evidence that presentation mode interacts with accent familiarity to variably affect comprehensibility ratings	3
Test-taker insights for language assessment policies and practices	3
Book Review: Multilingual Testing and Assessment	3
Fairness and justice in language testing: The challenge of Tim McNamara’s legacy	3
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
Correction Note	3
Review of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test	3
Book Review: Challenges in Language Testing Around the World: Insights for Language Test Users	3