OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of English Teaching-Practice and Critique 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Playful literacies and pedagogical priorities: digital games in the English classroom	14
“I. Am. a. Star.”: exploring moments of muchness in children’s digital compositional play and embodied science learning	12
Possibilities and missed opportunities for generative dialogue: professional networking, online platforms and the English classroom	10
Constrained yet strategic linguistic investment: Iranian English learners navigating identities, ideologies and capital forms amid religious nationalism	9
Play the game, live the story: pushing narrative boundaries with young adult videogames	8
What is an ELA text set? Surveying and integrating cognitive, critical and disciplinary lenses	8
“Sigo en lo Mismo”: the impact of papeles on the education of undocumented Latinx migrant and seasonal farmworkers	8
“It was literally a trauma narrative”: distances/disavowals and guides/gospels in queer postsecondary readings of LGBTQ+ young adult literature	7
Towards boundary crossing: primary and secondary school teachers teaching creative writing and its redrafting	6
“I can almost recognize its voice”: AI and its impact on ethical teacher-centaur labor	6
Identity and positionality in composing graphic narratives: reflective lessons on lingering with rhetorical choices	6
“I would rather be informed than misinformed”: critical conversations supporting transnational religious identity across time and space	6
Collaborative literary reasoning as a support for preservice English language arts teachers' learning about disciplinary literacy	6
“She’s all about her words”: one teacher’s efforts to sustain her students’ cultures through discourse	5
Sonic play: on the B-side of literacy and songwriting	5
“We’re changing the system with this one”: Black students using critical race algorithmic literacies to subvert and survive AI-mediated racism in school	5
Oh, God: evangelical teachers, textual interpretation, and ELA classrooms	5
Guest editorial: Introduction: Reconstructive discourse analysis as an approach to redressing racism in critical studies of literacy	5
Constructions of youth and responses to problematic authors: examining ELA teachers’ choices to select or avoid Sherman Alexie	5
“I’m really just scared of the White parents”: a teacher navigates perceptions of barriers to discussing racial injustice	4
Exploring child-nature-city relations through ecocritical readings of a diverse environmental picturebook	4
“I want to stay”: academic and social functions of translanguaging in literacy learning	4
“A creative approach” to teaching mathematics: case study integrating literacy and social justice mathematics using justice-centered children’s picturebooks	4
“We're loud, why aren't you?” Laura’s social media activism through justice-oriented literacies	4
Speculative frictions: writing civic futures after AI	4

Culturally relevant approaches to fostering postsecondary readiness in the dual credit English classroom	3
Tinkering toward teacher learning: a case for critical playful literacies in teacher education	3
Exploring the challenges and possibilities of critical literacy pedagogy: K-8 teacher discussions about race in a virtual professional development course	3
“Stealing from the language”: interest convergence and teachers’ advocacy for language-inclusive practices	3
Illustrating linguistic dexterity in “English mostly” spaces: how translanguaging can support academic writing in secondary ELA classrooms	3
Generative AI and composing: an intergenerational conversation among literacy scholars	3
Designing interpretive communities toward justice: indexicality in classroom discourse	3
Celebrate with me: a black adolescent girl’s speculative multimodal design of intersectional college and career futures	3
Solution-based orientation as an element in selecting videos on social issues	3
For concurrent enrollment, collaboration, not alignment, is the better story	3
Emotions, empathy and social justice education	2
“From the beginning, I think it was a stretch” – teachers’ perceptions and practices in teaching multiliteracies	2
Reading beyond belief: a framework for interpreting family lived religion in realistic fictional picturebooks	2
Striving for truth, justice and racial diversity: a critical race content analysis of DC Graphic Novel for Young Adults	2
Can a zoom class be dialogic? An examination of a virtual English methods class	2
Exploring (r)evolutionary college-going literacies with immigrant youth in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) seminar	2
“When a fox desires to be yuman”: exploring English teacher’s practice of critical literacy instruction: lessons learned from an Indonesian junior high classroom	2
Adopting a languaging approach for teaching about the climate crisis in English language arts	2
Exploring critical literacy responses through interactive read-alouds on racial justice and historical understanding	2
Pathways to motivation and learning in English language education: a case of two youths engaging in multiliteracies	2
“Live within the messiness”: how a digitally mediated inquiry community supported ELA teachers in cultivating adaptive repertoires	2
Experiencing the cycles of love in teaching: the praxis of an early career Asian American ELA teacher	2
Guest editorial	2
Journeying and everydayness as a framework for literacy research and teaching practice	2
Who do you think you are? Bourdieu as a lens for broadening writer identity in subject English	2