OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 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
Vocabulary and reading speed in the majority language are affected by maternal language proficiency and language exposure at home: a study of language minority bilingual children in Italy	34
Unilateral translanguaging: teachers’ language use, perceptions, and experience in a Portuguese-English two-way immersion program	25
Influences of bilingual input on English vocabulary size and academic outcomes: a large-scale longitudinal study following children in Australia from five to ten years	22
The impact of CLIL on the L2 French and L1 Dutch proficiency of Flemish secondary school pupils	22
Bilingual development in childhood (elements in child development)	20
Parental evaluation of ‘success’ and its influence on the implementation of bilingual education programmes in Australian primary settings	20
Linguistic interactions at nursery school and language acquisition of toddlers from low-income bilingual immigrant families and monolingual families	19
Identifying difficulties and best practices in catering to diversity in CLIL: instrument design and validation	19
Paternal agency in heritage language maintenance in Australia: Polish fathers in action	19
Inclusion and diversity in bilingual education: a European comparative study	18
Translanguaging pedagogies in a Mandarin-English dual language bilingual education classroom: contextualised learning from teacher-researcher collaboration	17
Maternal heritage language proficiency and child bilingual heritage language learning	17
Transitioning from secondary school to an English-medium transnational university in China: a longitudinal study of student self-efficacy and motivational beliefs	16
Developing and evaluating quality bilingual practices in higher education	15
Cognitive gains and socioeconomic status in early second language acquisition in immersion and EFL learning settings	15
Impact of emergency eLearning in a multilingual context with a minority language: how has the absence of school affected the use of Basque, English, and Spanish in the Basque context?	14
Translanguaging and product-oriented drama: an integrated pedagogical approach for language learning and literacy development	14
A replication study to assess CLIL effects on second language learning in Germany: more than selection and preparation effects?	14
Bridging the ‘dual lives’: school socialization of young bi/multilinguals in the eyes of EFL teachers	13
Exploring the role of executive functions in Chinese-English bilinguals’ emotional word comprehension during language switching	13
Two-way immersion promotes additional language learning: performance of bilingual sixth-grade students in English as a third language	13
Is there a multilingual advantage in gender agreement processing? Evidence from self-paced reading	13
Developing cognate awareness through pedagogical translanguaging	12
An empirical investigation of Spolsky’s framework applied to family language policy	12
Comprehension skills of Chinese-English dual language learners: relations across languages and associations with language richness at home	12

The partially overlapping nature of inhibitory control and preparatory control during language and task switching	12
(Re)imagining translanguaging pedagogies through teacher-researcher collaboration	11
The mysteries of bilingualism: unresolved issues	11
Curriculum integrated language teaching: CLIL in practice	11
Examining sources of language production switch costs amongst Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals	11
‘Who would have thought that I’d ever know that!’: subject-specific vocabulary in CLIL student interactions	11
Code-switching is metaphor, translanguaging is metonymy: a transdisciplinary view of bilingualism and its role in education	11
Language dominance and multilingual word learning	11
Multiliteracies for multilingual learners: the MultiSemiotic Architecture Framework	11
Multilingualism and speed: challenges and issues in applied linguistics	10
Exploring language in global contexts Exploring language in global contexts , edited by Jeffrey Gil and Sky Marsen, London, Routledge, 2022, 152 pp., $34.36 (paperback),	10
Teacher education for inclusive bilingual contexts: collective reflection to support emergent bilinguals with and without disabilities	10
Teaching responsive to play and linguistic diversity in early childhood education: considerations on theoretical grounds	9
When immigrant and regional minority languages coexist: linguistic authority and integration in multilingual linguistic acculturation	9
Evidence for the interdependence hypothesis: a longitudinal study of biliteracy development in a CLIL/bilingual setting	9
Analysis of the fostering and constraining factors for learners’ participation in the Spanish Heritage Education Program ALCE in Germany: proposals for improvement	9
Multilingual development through study abroad in multilingual Asian universities: a case study of a Vietnamese international student in Taiwan	8
Third space of the home: transnational Chinese families’ English home literacy and language learning	8
Translanguaging: a pedagogy of heteroglossic hope	8
L2 and L3 motivational systems and their interactions: a study of Tibetan-Chinese-English trilingual learners	8
Attention to diversity in bilingual education: student and teacher perspectives in Spain	8
EMI as a performative technology of acceleration in higher education contexts: academics and administrators’ perspectives	7
Beyond description: reconceptualizing the (trans)language(ing) among international students	7
The ideological foundations of Breton and Lower Sorbian language revitalization through education and their consequences for new speakers	7
Qualitative Research Topics in Language Teacher Education	7
Languages and social cohesion: a transdisciplinary literature review	7
Linguistic predictors of academic achievement amongst international students and home students in higher education: introduction	7
Teacher Education for inclusive bilingual contexts: collective reflection to support emergent bilinguals with and without disabilities	7
Uncovering monolingual ideologies embedded in South Korean multicultural education	7
Producing cognitive discourse functions in disciplinary Basque writing: developmental patterns across secondary education and L1 profiles	7
Multiliteracy as human capital in first-generation adult immigrants in Germany	7
Attention to diversity in German CLIL classrooms: multi-perspective research on students’ and teachers’ perceptions	7
The impact of language brokering frequency and psychological health on academic motivation and learning strategies of university students in the United States	7
Task effects and the yes-bias in heritage language bilingualism	6
Working memory and multilingualism: balanced language proficiency predicts verbal working memory	6
Supporting social strengths amid emerging bilingualism: effects of Word Generation on social perspective taking in English learners’ writing	6
Order in the chaos. Nurses’ perceptions of multilingual families in a society marked by a monoglossic ideology	6
Scaffolding for multilingual learners in elementary and secondary schools	6
Problematizing translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical strategy in deaf education	6
Language activation in dual language schools: the development of subject-verb agreement in the English and Spanish of heritage speaker children	6
Parental beliefs, language practices and language outcomes in Spanish-English bilingual children	5
Remaking multilingualism: a translanguaging approach	5
Examining the effects of teacher collaboration on student learning in a CLIL classroom	5
The effects of ethnomathematics education on student outcomes: The JADENKÄ program in the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca, Panama	5
Translanguaging drama: embracing learners’ perezhivanie for embodiment of the repertoire	5
‘Speak English!’: social acceleration and language learning in the workplace	5
The additive effect of metalinguistic awareness in third or additional language acquisition	5
Spaces of dissonance in dual language: teacher sense-making of a new biliteracy strategy	5
Identifying the assets of emergent bilingual middle school students’ writing: opportunities to validate students’ linguistic repertoires and identities	5
Some bilingual couples speak lingua francas: personal pronoun indexicality in the light of positioning theory	5

Bilingual children’s vocabulary skills at 5 years predict reading comprehension development within, not across, languages	5
Are there developmental patterns in emergent bilingual children’s English letter-name knowledge?	5
Parafoveal orthographic processing in bilingual reading	5
Narratives by bilingual children: a tale of strengths and growth during kindergarten	4
Family language planning strategies among Australian families of Arabic-speaking background	4
Learning Māori in the workplace: non-Māori learners’ assessment of the value of te reo	4
Bilinguals’ knowledge of ‘home’ and ‘school’ words revisited: evidence from Polish-English bilinguals	4
Exploring the waning interest in Nuosu Yi education in Liangshan, China	4
Mid-aged Latin@s in the U.S. Midwest narrating sustained bilingualism through figured worlds of bilingualism research, professionalization, and advocacy	4
Vietnamese Language, Education and Change in and Outside Vietnam	4
Researching teacher multilingual-talk and student-benefits: rethinking knowledge blindness, diglossic cognition and its constructs	4
The role of L1 self-efficacy in L2 reading comprehension: an exploration of L1–L2 cross-linguistic transfer	4
Language learner well-being in heritage language learning: conceptualisation, measurement, and a pathway to flourishing	4
Negation processing in Chinese–English bilinguals: insights from the Stroop paradigm and an orientation task	4
Second language reading and self-efficacy in bilingual and musical instruction. A study of reading ability	4
Language skills in Greek-English bilingual children attending Greek supplementary schools in England	4
Supporting bilingualism during the COVID-19 pandemic: dual language bilingual education teachers’ experiences and challenges	4
Queer breaches and normative devices: language learners queering gender, sexuality, and the L2 classroom	4
Research on teaching and learning English in under-resourced contexts	4
Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners (2nd edition) Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners	4
Multilingual adolescents: tension, negotiation, and agency	4