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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital whiteboards: engaging with active learning	108
Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching	86
Linguistic landscapes tasks in Global Englishes teacher education	53
Counterpoint to Henry Widdowson’s point	46
Lessons from Good Language Teachers	39
Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education	29
The Art of Foreign Language Teaching: Improvisation and Drama in Teacher Development and Language Learning (second edition)	25
Teacher strategies in implementing English medium instruction	23
Learner-initiated exploratory practice: revisiting curiosity	22
Philip Prowse 1947 – 2023	22
The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	21
CELTA tutors’ beliefs about online tutoring practices	21
Developing the multilingual agenda in EMI higher educational institutions	18
Critical antiracist pedagogy in ELT	18
An online book club for ESOL learners	17
The impact of corrective feedback on English articles	16
Introduction to the Special Section on Critical Pedagogy	15
Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching. A machine-generated literature overview	15
Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes: Teaching and Learning in International Contexts	15
Becoming and Being a TESOL Teacher Educator: Research and Practice	14
Making it happen: trauma-informed ESOL teaching in Scottish FE	13
English as a Medium of Instruction on the Arabian Peninsula	12
Investigating an ELT community of practice in India	12
Grammar in ELT and ELT Materials: Evaluating its History and Current Practice	12
Innovation in ELT revisited	12

Decolonizing classroom discourse: insights from interactional research	11
English pronunciation teaching and learning for the world that speaks it	10
Translanguaging and the shifting sands of language education	9
Challenging native speakerism in a Korean college English course	9
A plea to stop debating and erasing queer lives in ELT	8
Listening in interaction: reconceptualizing a core skill	8
Migrant grandparents in Australia: English learning and well-being	8
From language to function: developing self- and peer-assessment tools	8
English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia	8
Trust and translanguaging in English-medium instruction	8
Teacher talk in EAP classes: transition to post-liminal understanding	8
A visual model of L2 motivation as a complex dynamic system	8
Digital multimodal composing pedagogy in a university writing course	8
Implementing a reading-to-learn programme in EFL bilingual teaching	7
Silence in English Language Pedagogy: From Research to Practice	7
Perspectives of ELF-informed teachers in Taiwan	7
Worked examples for peer interaction: a feedback and learning resource	7
Using personal development activities to improve learners’ well-being	7
Ageism (un)covered in locally produced ELT materials	7
‘The effect is/isn’t significant!’: statistical evidence and ELT	6
Enhancing long-term learner engagement through project-based learning	6
Practices, beliefs, and challenges of teacher research in Nepal	6
Improving EFL students’ multimodal literacy through infographics	6
Critical literacy supplementary materials in high school EFL	6
Insights into emergency remote teaching in EFL	6
Fostering global citizenship in EFL students through telecollaboration	5
Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching: Practice in Diverse Contexts	5
Teacher perspectives on addressing environmental issues in ELT	5
Pulled both ways	5
Translanguaging: a paradigm shift for ELT theory and practice	5
Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education: Curriculum Innovation through Intercultural Communication	5
Moving beyond ‘infancy’: towards a cross-fertilization between EMI and EAP scholarship	5
Correction to: Using learning journals to promote learner autonomy	5
Children’s and teachers’ views on digital games in the EFL classroom	5
Inclusive digital games in the transcultural communicative classroom	5
TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era	5
ESOL classes as trauma-sensitive physical spaces	5
Virtual exchange in teacher education: focus on L2 writing	4
Flipped primary EFL classrooms: impact, feasibility, and potential	4
Generative artificial intelligence and ELT	4
Global English and Political Economy	4
International youth literature in the Chinese EFL classroom	4
Engagement	4
Mentoring Teachers: Supporting Learning, Wellbeing and Retention	4
Learner-centredness	4
Teachers’ digital technology use after a period of online teaching	4
Motivational dynamics in learning English in Second Life	4
Take-home tests as an assessment for learning strategy	4
English writing with Disney animation: a critical perspective	4
Can my writing be polished further? When ChatGPT meets human touch	4

Teachers’ pedagogical intentions while using motivational strategies	4
Teacher agency and washback: insights from classrooms in rural Bangladesh	4
Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice	4
N.S. Prabhu 1933–2024	4
Focusing on ESOL teachers’ well-being during COVID-19 and beyond	4