OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Applied Linguistics 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Conducting sentiment analysis, LeiLei and DilinLiu, Cambridge University Press, 2021. 96 pp	52
The Effects of Strategy Instruction on Chinese EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Awareness and Pragmatic Motivation	42
A Narrative Inquiry Into the Role of Emotional Experience in Novice Secondary School English Teachers’ Identity Construction	18
The relationship between receptive and productive knowledge of L2 English collocations	18
Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity	17
Functions of idioms in English as lingua franca: An appraisal system account	17
Calm down: A mediation model on the mitigating effect anxiety has on learner interactions and learning outcome	17
Multi‐Formed Power and Coordinated Responses in Academic Supervision	13
Researching second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment: An introduction for student researchersChristina L.Isabelli‐García, Casilde A.IsabelliPalgrave Pivot, 2020. xxii + 138	13
Evidential Strategies in Chinese Social‐Mediated Communication: A Digital Conversation‐Analytic Approach	12
Measuring native‐speaker vocabulary size. PaulNation and AverilCoxhead, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2021, xiii, 160 pp., Hardbound: ISBN 9789027208149, EUR 95.00; Paperb	12
“Our study offers insight into…” Rhetorical promotion in English and Spanish conference abstracts	12
Policy and politics in global primary English, JanetEnever, Oxford: Oxford University Press ‐ 2018, pp. 196, ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐420054‐7	12
Posture, Competitiveness, and Motivation of Korean Language Learners: A Mixed‐Methods Study	12
A contrastive analysis of congratulate by native speakers of Chinese and advanced learners of Chinese	12
The Effects of Rule‐Based and Acoustic‐Perceptual Instruction on Chinese ESL Learners’ English Primary Word Stress Placement Accuracy	11
Epistemic Dissemination as Dialogue: A Case of Museum‐Visitor Stance Negotiation Through Multilingualism	10
A Translanguaging Approach to Doctoral Supervision: Leveraging Students’ Multilingualism as Intellectual Resources	10
Effects of Task Complexity and L2 Proficiency on Functional Adequacy in L2 Writing	9
A Multiple‐Choice Exercise on Collocations: What Do Learners Actually Remember?	8
Statistics in corpus linguistics: A practical guideVaclavBrezinaCambridge University Press, 2018	8
Where there is suffering, there is sympathy: The speech act Sympathize in learning Chinese as a foreign language	7
Preschool English language planning in China: Tensions between policy and practice	6
Local Grammar Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on the Discursive Representation of Climate Change in the UN News	6
The Roles of Decision‐Makers in Family Language Policy Process: A Systematic Review of Research Since 2013	6

Effects of deductive and explicit‐inductive instruction on tertiary‐level Chinese learners’ use of English subjunctive as a pragmatic mitigator	6
English teachers’ professional identity incorporated with perceived anxiety in the context of flipped teaching: Scale development and model extension	6
English learning and use in Hong Kong's bilingual education: Implications for L2 learners’ development of interactional competence	6
Language Teachers’ Development of Decision‐Making and Pedagogical Reasoning: A Sociocultural Perspective on Peer Coaching	5
Tracking Advanced Chinese Language Learners’ Oral Proficiency Development and Social Network Construction While Studying Abroad	5
Learner knowledge of English phrasal verbs: Awareness, confidence, and learning experiences	5
Understanding academic vocabulary learning in higher education: Perspectives from first‐year undergraduates in Hong Kong	5
Do Formal Stance Strategies Reveal Disciplinary Variation in Professional Scientific Writing?	5
Guiding the Future: The Role of L2 Self‐Guides in Predicting Pre‐Service Language Teachers’ Professional Commitment	5
Perceptual ratings of pronunciation for L2 learners of English as a function of task type, word position, and listener expertise	5
E‐learning anxiety and satisfaction with online EFL courses in times of COVID‐19: A moderated mediation model of positive coping and gender	5
Interaction between levels of text representation and working memory during L2 reading comprehension: What about it?	5
Exploring Strategies to Connect Foreign Language Education With People Skills: Nurturing Intercultural Understanding Through the Rich Cultural Tapestry of Japanese Anime	5
Focus on form. AlessandroBenati. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 78 pp., ISBN 978‐1‐108‐70834‐0 Paperback.	4
The role of reticence in the comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions in the foreign language	4
The relationship between self‐regulated learning strategy use and task engagement	4
Triadic oral peer feedback: Does EFL learners’ L2 proficiency pairing play a role?	4
Group work dynamics and the role of leadership in face‐to‐face and online second language classes	4
Emotion in language: Emotion word type and valence interactively predicted Chinese emotional word processing in emotion categorization task	4
Understanding EAP learners’ beliefs about language learning from a socio‐cultural perspective: A longitudinal study at an EMI context in mainland China. ChiliLi, Springer Singapore, 2021 ISBN: 978‐981	4
Adapting the task‐based methodology for learners with intellectual disabilities: Five key facets for consideration	4
Exploring Mindset Profiles and Their Associations With Enjoyment, Ideal Self, Grit, and Achievement Among Chinese Adolescent Language Learners: A Latent Profile Analysis	4
Enabling and Enacting: Interplay of Agency and Emotions in the Learning Experiences of Successful EFL Learners	4
Effects of pronominal reference on the integration of syntactic and semantic information in second language processing	4
Unraveling University EFL Teachers’ Feedback Beliefs in Teaching English Argumentative Writing	4
Meaningful teaching interaction at the internationalised university: Moving from research to impactDorisDippoldMarionHeronRoutledge, 2021. xxiv + 209 pp. ISBN: 9780429329692 (ebk)	4
If you look at the table…: Directives in conference presentations and university lectures	4
Issue Information	4
Which Theory Better Explains Multilinguals’ Translation Classroom Engagement: Situated Expectancy‐Value Theory or Control‐Value Theory?	4
A netnography of emergent ESOL researcher identity and development in a virtual community of practice	3
The Routledge handbook of language testing, 2nd edition Edited by GlennFulcher \| LukeHardingRoutledge, 2021. xviii + 656 pp. ISBN: 9781138385436	3
Emotional labour in comforting strangers on social media	3
Exploring AI Literacy and AI‐Induced Emotions among Chinese University English Language Teachers: The Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM) Approach	3
Compiled by AILA ReN Coordinator	3
EFL learners’ confidence, attitudes, and practice towards learning pronunciation	3
Issue Information	3
Attitudes toward the spread of English and language learning motivation: A graded response model analysis	3
Revisiting directionality in China's “outward translation”	3
An Investigation of the Relational Aspects of L2 Teacher Pride in the Turkish Context: A Retrodictive Qualitative Modeling Approach	3
Exploring the interplay of attitudes: The transfer of self‐efficacy and emotions between L1 Chinese and L2 English integrated writing contexts	3
The role of individual differences in second language pragmatics: A systematic review	3
Can EFL teaching help revitalize the Aymara language and culture? Exploring EFL teachers' practices from Northern Chile	3
Emotions, perspectives, and English language teacher identity construction: A phenomenographic‐narrative study	3
A Journey of Discovery: Unraveling Chinese Qingjiao’s (Earlier Career University Teachers’) Professional Agency for Learning to Negotiate Identity Tensions	3
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with social‐cultural interpretation. BinhuaWang and JeremyMunday (Eds.). Routledge. ISBN 97803674217552020	3
Exploring Chinese EFL teachers’ perceptions of creativity and criticality in assessment practices: A qualitative study	3
Compiled by AILA ReN Coordinator, Laura Gurzynski‐Weiss, Indiana University, [email protected]	3
The Many Faces of Multilingualism: Language Status, Learning, and Use Across Contexts. Edited by PiotrRomanowski and MartinGuardado2020. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. 13 pp., ISBN: 9781501514692	2
Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland	2
How Do Congruency and L2 Proficiency Impact the Processing of Chinese L2 Collocations? Evidence From Different L1 Activation States	2

Introducing English for research publication purposes. JohnFlowerdew and PejmanHabibie. Routledge, 2022. p. 157. ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐33059‐0, $55 (hardcover)	2
Exploring Chinese EFL Teachers’ Perceptions About the Contribution of Positive Classroom Climate to Their Professional Vitality and Creativity: A Qualitative Study	2
Learning environment matters for university EFL learners’ emotions and approaches to online learning technologies: A Chinese perspective	2
Issue Information	2
Making Arguments at Lower Proficiencies: Move–Bundle Connection in Korean University Students’ English Argumentative Writing	2
The development of phrase‐frames in EFL learners’ essays: Variability, structures, and functions	2
100 Years of conference interpreting: A legacy. Edited by Kilian G.Seeber, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Newcastle upon Tyne, 2021, Price: £64.99, 242 pp. ISBN: 1‐5275‐6719‐2	2
Conducting second‐language reading research: A methodological guide by Elizabeth B.Bernhardt, Michael L.Kamil. eds. Routledge, 2022. xviii, 161 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐003‐15513‐3	2
University students’ metaphors for Canadian multiculturalism: Diverse perceptions	2
Imagined Communities of Chinese International Graduates in Australia and New Zealand	2
Understanding the oral and written translanguaging practices of emergent bilinguals: Insights from Korean heritage language classrooms in the US, ChaehyunLee, New York and London: Routledge, 2021, xvi	2
Construction grammar: The structure of English by ThomasHoffmann ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2022, xi, 315 pp., US$120,00, ISBN 978‐1‐107‐01349‐0 Hardback	2
Patterns of contingency and non‐contingency in teacher–student scaffolding interactions: A case of novice and experienced language teachers	2
Linguistic (In)Directness in Complaints on an Online Discussion Forum for Chinese University Students	2
Metaphor, sustainability, transformation: Transdisciplinary perspectives. Edited by IanHughes, EdmondByrne, GerardMullally, ColinSage. Routledge, 2022. XIII + 264 pp. ISBN 9780367698553	2
A Revisit to Recast Efficacy in L2 Learning: An Alignment Perspective	2
Calm the Mind, Unlock the Voice: A Bayesian Longitudinal Analysis of Mindfulness and EFL Speaking Anxiety	2
The distributed practice effects of speaking task repetition	2
Viral discourse, Rodney H.Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2021. vi + 95 pp. $20.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781108986625	2
Language Teacher Agency and Identity in Internationalized Higher Education: An Ecological Perspective	2
“Contemporary standard” English policy and pseudo‐diversity among inner and outer circle assistant language teachers in Japan	2
Data‐Driven Learning: A Linguistically Authentic Complement to Coursebooks for Foreign Language Learners	2
Computational Sociolinguistics: An Emerging Multidisciplinary Research Area	2
Does the word‐writing strategy in vocabulary learning increase learning outcomes or mislead learners into overestimation?	2
Exploring epistemological decentring in a language other than English classroom through pedagogical translanguaging	2
EFL Adolescents' Use of English in the Era of New Digital Media: An Empirical Investigation	2
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Easing down foreign language listening anxiety: Metacognitive intervention and dialogic interaction	2
Compiled by AILA ReN coordinator	2
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How the Effects of Foreign Language Enjoyment, Anxiety, Boredom and Peace of Mind on Attitude/Motivation Change With Skill Level, Academic Achievement and Age: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
Stance in article highlights: The promotion of Covid‐19 research	2
Teaching and testing second language pragmatics and interaction: A practical guideCarstenRoeverRoutledge, 2022. 200 pp. £27.62 (ebook). ISBN: 9780429260766	2
The efficacy of written corrective feedback: Searching for the best predictors	2
Providing Pragmatics Training for L2 Teachers: A Sociocultural Perspective on Development of a Chinese Graduate Teaching Assistant	2
What's in a message: A systemic functional analysis of cancer prevention messages	2