OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ELT Journal 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital multimodal composing pedagogy in a university writing course	111
Challenging native speakerism in a Korean college English course	87
Critical literacy supplementary materials in high school EFL	57
Digital whiteboards: engaging with active learning	46
The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	45
The impact of corrective feedback on English articles	31
Teaching English to Young Arabic Speakers: Assessing the Influence of Instructional Materials, Narratives and Cultural Norms	29
Leveraging transnational identities of refugee-background students	26
Children’s and teachers’ views on digital games in the EFL classroom	25
Translanguaging and the shifting sands of language education	24
Global English and Political Economy	24
Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice	22
Kritische Fremdsprachendidaktik: Grundlagen, Ziele, Beispiele [Critical Foreign Language Education: Basic Issues, Goals, Examples]	19
Social-emotional learning in ESOL with ninth-grade newcomers	19
Centring on students’ needs by engaging in translanguaging shifts	18
Correction to: Using learning journals to promote learner autonomy	18
ELT teachers’ agency for wellbeing	17
Language teacher wellbeing: an individual–institutional pact	17
Rapport	15
Knowledge co-construction in professional reading group discussions	15
CEFR and the ELT practitioner: empowerment or enforcement?	15
Raising awareness among the TESOL community about the professional identity tensions of women EFL teachers in Africa	15
ChatGPT in ELT: disruptor? Or well-trained teaching assistant?	14
Mapping a way forward: toward a shared EMI and EAP research agenda	13
The challenges of EMI for art and design students in the UAE	12

Screen capture technology in ELT	11
A case for ELF feito no Brasil	11
A Kazakhstani English Language teacher’s perspective on multilingual practices	11
Research methods in applied linguistics and language education: current considerations, recent innovations, and future directions	10
Developing Intercultural Language Materials	10
Ways of implementing ELF in the classroom	10
Generative artificial intelligence and ELT	9
Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching	9
Towards a Global Englishes-aware National English Curriculum of China	9
How does generative AI promote autonomy and inclusivity in language teaching?	9
A response to Moore	8
A digital pedagogy for transculturing ELT through Global Englishes	8
Fluency revisited	8
Vocabulary and the Four Skills. Pedagogy, Practice, and Implications for Teaching Vocabulary	8
Writing conferences via an online meeting platform	8
Supporting part-time ELT faculty in a Japanese university	8
The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	8
‘I feel like a snake changing its skins’: a plurilingual project	7
Black Lives Matter in an EFL speaking class	7
Social robots for English language teaching	7
Erratum to: Translanguaging as a political stance: implications for English language education	7
Three stakeholders’ reflections on language assessment literacy	7
Engaging students in dialogic interactions through questioning	7
Code-switching and translanguaging: why they have a lot in common	7
“Feeling Closer to Nature” through Ecocritical ELT	7
Student engagement with digital video production	6
Digital literacy as ideological practice	6
Can novice teachers detect AI-generated texts in EFL writing?	6
Implementing rubric co-construction in ESL writing teaching	6
Tracking trends in coursebooks for young learners	5
A plea to stop debating and erasing queer lives in ELT	5
Listening in interaction: reconceptualizing a core skill	5
Translanguaging: a paradigm shift for ELT theory and practice	5
Learner-initiated exploratory practice: revisiting curiosity	5
The Art of Foreign Language Teaching: Improvisation and Drama in Teacher Development and Language Learning (second edition)	5
Implementing a reading-to-learn programme in EFL bilingual teaching	5
Moving beyond ‘infancy’: towards a cross-fertilization between EMI and EAP scholarship	5
Teacher strategies in implementing English medium instruction	5
Language Education in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities	5
Decolonizing classroom discourse: insights from interactional research	5
Worked examples for peer interaction: a feedback and learning resource	5
Teacher input prompts and student listening strategies in EMI classes	5
Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching: Practice in Diverse Contexts	5
Can my writing be polished further? When ChatGPT meets human touch	4
Take-home tests as an assessment for learning strategy	4
Teacher agency and washback: insights from classrooms in rural Bangladesh	4
Machine translation in English language teaching	4
Bringing Forth a World: Engaged Pedagogy in the Japanese University	4
International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT	4
ESOL classes as trauma-sensitive physical spaces	4

Engagement	4
Coping with COVID-19-related online English teaching challenges: teacher educators’ suggestions	4
How useful is it to teach affixes in intermediate classes?	4
Global Englishes-oriented teacher education: lasting shifts	4
International youth literature in the Chinese EFL classroom	4
Teachers’ digital technology use after a period of online teaching	4
English writing with Disney animation: a critical perspective	4
Intensive English programme ecology: decolonizing ‘within the cracks’	4
The potential of complaining as reflective practice in mentoring	4