OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Linguistics and Education is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Language policy on the ground in Norwegian kindergartens	37
Silence as absence, silence as presence: A discourse analysis of English language arts teachers’ descriptions of classroom silences	30
In the wild? Evaluating the authenticity of conversation openings and closings in EFL/ESL textbooks	25
Editorial Board	24
Into the void of discourse	23
Reading metaphor: Symbolising, connoting and abducing meanings	22
Linguistic Othering and “knowledge deserts”: Perspectives on Arabic use in linguistically diverse Islamic institutions	21
An EAP instructor's perceptions of and engagement in dialogic scaffolding	21
Developing practices for first-time encounters: Pursuing mutual understanding and relational achievement in conversations-for-learning	17
Building word knowledge through integrated vocabulary explanations in ESL tutorials	16
Language learners’ linguistic investment in ideologically framed language institutes: Forms of capital, ideology, and identity	16
Editorial Board	15
Alex, the toolmaker: Tool-and-result activity in the L2 learning context	15
Language demands of textbooks for learning English in Hong Kong: A multi-stratal analysis	14
Linguistically responsive teaching: A requirement for Finnish primary school teachers	13
“Can we stop cleaning the house and make some food, Mum?”: A critical investigation of gender representation in China's English textbooks	13
Beyond individual language brokering: Family literacy brokering	12
Thorny issues with academic language: A perspective from scientific practice	12
Family literacies during the COVID-19 lockdown: Semiotic assemblages and meaning making at home	12
Graphical models for narrative texts: Reflecting and reshaping curriculum demands for Swedish primary school	11
Language visibility in multilingual schools: An empirical study of schoolscapes from India	11
Narratives in the classroom: A tale of affordances and missed opportunities	11
Complaining for rapport building: Troubles talk in a preservice language teacher online video exchange	10
Visions and missions: Stance in the marketisation discourse of selected Ghanaian universities	10
Ideological becoming through study abroad: Multilingual Japanese students in Turkey	10

The collective classroom “we”: The role of students’ sense of belonging on their affective, cognitive, and discourse experiences of online and face-to-face discussions	9
“We feel excluded and isolated”: Multilingual international students’ emotions and agency in an EMI program	9
A multimodal analysis of character-character interaction in LGTB picture books and its educational implications	9
Commentary: Understanding Emotions in EMI Institutions through Attending to Context, History, and Ideology	9
Written metalinguistic reflections of 4th graders on scientific explanations: A bridge between conceptual, discursive, and lexicogrammatical dimensions	9
Toward a theory of transgressive classroom language	9
A sojourning multilingual family's sense-making in a science museum: A repertoire approach	9
Use of non‐situational identities in teacher‐student interaction	9
Legitimating meritocracy as part of the American Dream through the ritual of commencement speeches	9
Language as a distinguishing feature or common ground? A participatory study on manifestations of intergroup relations in the lived experiences of multilingual students.	9
The “grammar school pressure”: From tolerance to distance, to rejection of ‘Scouse’ in middle-class Merseyside schools	8
Reading about geography and race in the rural rustbelt: Mobilizing dis/affiliation as a practice of whiteness	8
The development of educational policy positioning on multilingualism in the Federal Republic of Germany - Contradictory approaches towards ‘foreign’ and ‘heritage’ languages	8
Exploring third-grade students’ historical distancing strategies throughout an inquiry on African American history	8
Using multimodal resources to design EFL classroom lead-ins—A multimodal pedagogical stylistics perspective	8
Pedagogical variations of critical literacies practices in a secondary transnational education program	8
Negotiating collaborative and inclusive practices in university students’ group-to-group videoconferencing sessions	8
Exploring a linguistic orientation to facilitating refugee-background youth's meaning-making with texts: A self-study	8
Demonstrating active listenership through collaborative turn completion to display epistemic access in multi-party interactions	8
Enacting relationships through dialogic storytelling	8
Structuring written arguments in primary and secondary school: A systemic functional linguistics perspective	7
Different as deficient: Challenging the language of difference in constructions of Marshallese and other minoritized students	7
Surveying the landscape of college teaching about African American Language	7
Disciplinary content and text structures communicated in the classroom – pathways in science lessons	7
“In writing, I simply do not distinguish between the sounds:” The metacognitive experience of emergent biliterate children.	7
Understanding EFL students’ academically transitioning experiences with meaning-making-based instruction: A qualitative inquiry	7
Culturally sustaining systemic functional linguistics: Towards an explicitly anti-racist and anti-colonial languaging and literacy pedagogy	6
Recruiting help in word searches in L2 peer interaction: A multimodal conversation-analytic study	6
Digital punctuation as an interactional resource: the message-final period among German adolescents	6
“Everybody has to be with everybody”: Languaging relational and intellectual work with multilingual learners in a science class community	6
Encouraging translanguaging in collaborative talk in EFL classrooms: An epistemic network comparative study	6
Eliciting student participation in synchronous online L2 lessons: The use of oral and written DIUs	6
“They enjoyed little political power:” Representations of immigrant experience in an 11th-grade U.S. history textbook	6
Gender voices in Chinese university students’ English writing: A corpus study	6
Undergraduate thesis supervisory conference: Academic discourse socialisation multiple-case study	5
Es un mal castellano cuando decimos ‘su’: Language instruction, raciolinguistic ideologies and study abroad in Peru	5
The interconnections among metadiscourse, metalanguage, and metacognition: Manifestation and application in classroom discourse	5
Signing up to be tested: The costs of participation in high stakes literacy standardised assessments	5
Mode-switching as Face-saving Resource in a Synchronous Online Class about Linguistic Racism	5
Linguistic justice: Addressing linguistic variation of black children in teaching and learning	5
Silence as Political and Pedagogical: Reading Classroom Silence Through Neoliberal and Humanizing Lenses	5
Historical images of teachers and their underlying ideologies in Swedish academia: Multimodal discourses from 1950 and 1980	5
On the necessity (and insufficiency) of ethnographic perspectives: Towards an inter-scalar approach to research on “academic language”	5
Representing transition experiences: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of young immigrants in children's literature	5
“He drank too much Gatorade”: Exploring learner conceptions in scientific reasoning from a social semiotic perspective	5
Navigating the German school system when being perceived as a student ‘with migration background’: Students’ perspectives on linguistic racism	5
“What do you think?” How interaction unfolds following opinion-seeking questions and implications for encouraging subjectification in education	5
From a learner to a user? Exploring learning in language counselling through the lens of linguistic mudes	5
Epistemic status as an analytic tool: Mapping classroom talk and participation in a middle grades prototyping testing activity	5
Designedly incomplete utterances as prompts for co-narration in home literacy events with young multilingual children	5

“I think they're Hispanic”: Agency and meaning-making in Latinx students’ discussions about text	5
Meanings and metaphors: What do they tell us about silence?	4
A raciolinguistic perspective on standardized literacy assessments	4
The affective construction of others’ experience: A cross-cultural comparison of youth's responses to a film about the Uruguayan dictatorship	4
Two voices, one paper: Using storywork to reassess the impact of academic language on “English Learners” in Alaska	4
Thinking brainstorming as otherwise in collaborative writing: A rhizoanalysis	4
De-centering the anthropocentric worldview in language textbooks: A posthumanist call for discursive reparations for sustainable ELT	4
Analysing test scripts to improve language materials in the Solomon Islands	4
Enhanced English conversations-for-learning: Constructing and using notes for deferred correction sequences	4
Reflexive expertise and channel reconfiguration	4
Editorial Board	4
Mediated focalisation in video explanations: Implications for the communication of architecture and STEM	4
The relational actor: How teachers in bilingual schools distribute their political agency	4
Editorial Board	4
Neoliberal rules: A critical multimodal analysis of metonymy on high school webpages	4
Nation, alterity and competing discourses: Rethinking textbooks as ideological apparatuses	4
Medical professionals as reflective practitioners: On the language awareness of L2-speaking doctors	4
Classroom norms as resources: Deontic rule formulations and children's local enactment of authority in the peer group	4
University Students’ Perceptions of Their Lecturer's Use of Evaluative Language in Oral Feedback	4