OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ELT Journal is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Leveraging transnational identities of refugee-background students	147
Digital multimodal composing pedagogy in a university writing course	55
Children’s and teachers’ views on digital games in the EFL classroom	50
Challenging native speakerism in a Korean college English course	48
Bridging extramural English and formal instruction	39
Digital whiteboards: engaging with active learning	33
Teaching English to Young Arabic Speakers: Assessing the Influence of Instructional Materials, Narratives and Cultural Norms	27
The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	26
Critical literacy supplementary materials in high school EFL	26
Trauma-sensitive English teaching and SEL amid war in Ukraine	21
Global English and Political Economy	19
ELT teachers’ agency for wellbeing	18
Correction to: Using learning journals to promote learner autonomy	18
ChatGPT in ELT: disruptor? Or well-trained teaching assistant?	17
Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice	17
Social-emotional learning in ESOL with ninth-grade newcomers	17
Centring on students’ needs by engaging in translanguaging shifts	17
Mapping a way forward: toward a shared EMI and EAP research agenda	16
Raising awareness among the TESOL community about the professional identity tensions of women EFL teachers in Africa	16
CEFR and the ELT practitioner: empowerment or enforcement?	16
Language teacher wellbeing: an individual–institutional pact	15
The challenges of EMI for art and design students in the UAE	15
Research methods in applied linguistics and language education: current considerations, recent innovations, and future directions	13
Screen capture technology in ELT	13
Developing Intercultural Language Materials	13

A Kazakhstani English Language teacher’s perspective on multilingual practices	12
Cambridge Elements in Language Teaching	12
Generative artificial intelligence and ELT	11
Fluency revisited	11
A case for ELF feito no Brasil	11
Ways of implementing ELF in the classroom	11
Engaging students in dialogic interactions through questioning	10
How does generative AI promote autonomy and inclusivity in language teaching?	10
Code-switching and translanguaging: why they have a lot in common	10
The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching	10
‘I feel like a snake changing its skins’: a plurilingual project	9
Erratum to: Translanguaging as a political stance: implications for English language education	9
Writing conferences via an online meeting platform	9
A digital pedagogy for transculturing ELT through Global Englishes	9
Primary EFL teachers’ perceptions of technology to support speaking	9
Facilitating professional growth through materials-based assessments	9
Language Education in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities	8
Supporting part-time ELT faculty in a Japanese university	8
Black Lives Matter in an EFL speaking class	8
Vocabulary and the Four Skills. Pedagogy, Practice, and Implications for Teaching Vocabulary	8
Implementing rubric co-construction in ESL writing teaching	8
Children’s learning through digital technologies: an introduction	8
Tracking trends in coursebooks for young learners	8
“Feeling Closer to Nature” through Ecocritical ELT	7
Three stakeholders’ reflections on language assessment literacy	7
Can novice teachers detect AI-generated texts in EFL writing?	7
Digital literacy as ideological practice	7
Translanguaging: a paradigm shift for ELT theory and practice	6
Teacher input prompts and student listening strategies in EMI classes	6
The Art of Foreign Language Teaching: Improvisation and Drama in Teacher Development and Language Learning (second edition)	6
Teacher strategies in implementing English medium instruction	6
Worked examples for peer interaction: a feedback and learning resource	6
Listening in interaction: reconceptualizing a core skill	6
Decolonizing classroom discourse: insights from interactional research	6
Moving beyond ‘infancy’: towards a cross-fertilization between EMI and EAP scholarship	6
Implementing a reading-to-learn programme in EFL bilingual teaching	6
International youth literature in the Chinese EFL classroom	5
Can my writing be polished further? When ChatGPT meets human touch	5
Engagement	5
ESOL classes as trauma-sensitive physical spaces	5
Take-home tests as an assessment for learning strategy	5
Teacher agency and washback: insights from classrooms in rural Bangladesh	5
Challenges in understanding children’s language learning in games	5
English writing with Disney animation: a critical perspective	5
Teachers’ digital technology use after a period of online teaching	5