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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Unilateral translanguaging: teachers’ language use, perceptions, and experience in a Portuguese-English two-way immersion program	36
Bilingual development in childhood (elements in child development)	26
Parental evaluation of ‘success’ and its influence on the implementation of bilingual education programmes in Australian primary settings	23
Linguistic interactions at nursery school and language acquisition of toddlers from low-income bilingual immigrant families and monolingual families	22
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	22
Inclusion and diversity in bilingual education: a European comparative study	20
Transitioning from secondary school to an English-medium transnational university in China: a longitudinal study of student self-efficacy and motivational beliefs	19
Maternal heritage language proficiency and child bilingual heritage language learning	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	18
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	17
The impact of CLIL on the L2 French and L1 Dutch proficiency of Flemish secondary school pupils	17
Translanguaging pedagogies in a Mandarin-English dual language bilingual education classroom: contextualised learning from teacher-researcher collaboration	16
A replication study to assess CLIL effects on second language learning in Germany: more than selection and preparation effects?	15
Translanguaging and product-oriented drama: an integrated pedagogical approach for language learning and literacy development	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
Is there a multilingual advantage in gender agreement processing? Evidence from self-paced reading	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
The partially overlapping nature of inhibitory control and preparatory control during language and task switching	13
Two-way immersion promotes additional language learning: performance of bilingual sixth-grade students in English as a third language	13
An empirical investigation of Spolsky’s framework applied to family language policy	13
‘Who would have thought that I’d ever know that!’: subject-specific vocabulary in CLIL student interactions	12
Code-switching is metaphor, translanguaging is metonymy: a transdisciplinary view of bilingualism and its role in education	12
Multiliteracies for multilingual learners: the MultiSemiotic Architecture Framework	12

Developing cognate awareness through pedagogical translanguaging	12
The mysteries of bilingualism: unresolved issues	12
Curriculum integrated language teaching: CLIL in practice	12
Examining sources of language production switch costs amongst Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals	11
Teaching responsive to play and linguistic diversity in early childhood education: considerations on theoretical grounds	11
Comprehension skills of Chinese-English dual language learners: relations across languages and associations with language richness at home	11
(Re)imagining translanguaging pedagogies through teacher-researcher collaboration	11
Multilingualism and speed: challenges and issues in applied linguistics	10
Evidence for the interdependence hypothesis: a longitudinal study of biliteracy development in a CLIL/bilingual setting	9
Teacher education for inclusive bilingual contexts: collective reflection to support emergent bilinguals with and without disabilities	9
Analysis of the fostering and constraining factors for learners’ participation in the Spanish Heritage Education Program ALCE in Germany: proposals for improvement	9
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),	9
Attention to diversity in German CLIL classrooms: multi-perspective research on students’ and teachers’ perceptions	8
Translanguaging: a pedagogy of heteroglossic hope	8
When immigrant and regional minority languages coexist: linguistic authority and integration in multilingual linguistic acculturation	8
L2 and L3 motivational systems and their interactions: a study of Tibetan-Chinese-English trilingual learners	8
Third space of the home: transnational Chinese families’ English home literacy and language learning	8
Multilingual development through study abroad in multilingual Asian universities: a case study of a Vietnamese international student in Taiwan	8
Attention to diversity in bilingual education: student and teacher perspectives in Spain	8
Languages and social cohesion: a transdisciplinary literature review	7
Producing cognitive discourse functions in disciplinary Basque writing: developmental patterns across secondary education and L1 profiles	7
Qualitative Research Topics in Language Teacher Education	7
Multiliteracy as human capital in first-generation adult immigrants in Germany	7
The ideological foundations of Breton and Lower Sorbian language revitalization through education and their consequences for new speakers	7
Scaffolding for multilingual learners in elementary and secondary schools	7
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
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
Language activation in dual language schools: the development of subject-verb agreement in the English and Spanish of heritage speaker children	6
Task effects and the yes-bias in heritage language bilingualism	6
Supporting social strengths amid emerging bilingualism: effects of Word Generation on social perspective taking in English learners’ writing	6
Working memory and multilingualism: balanced language proficiency predicts verbal working memory	6
Order in the chaos. Nurses’ perceptions of multilingual families in a society marked by a monoglossic ideology	6
The effects of ethnomathematics education on student outcomes: The JADENKÄ program in the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca, Panama	6
Linguistic predictors of academic achievement amongst international students and home students in higher education: introduction	6
Problematizing translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical strategy in deaf education	6
Some bilingual couples speak lingua francas: personal pronoun indexicality in the light of positioning theory	5
Examining the effects of teacher collaboration on student learning in a CLIL classroom	5
‘Speak English!’: social acceleration and language learning in the workplace	5
Remaking multilingualism: a translanguaging approach	5
The additive effect of metalinguistic awareness in third or additional language acquisition	5
Parafoveal orthographic processing in bilingual reading	5
Translanguaging drama: embracing learners’ perezhivanie for embodiment of the repertoire	5
Spaces of dissonance in dual language: teacher sense-making of a new biliteracy strategy	5
Are there developmental patterns in emergent bilingual children’s English letter-name knowledge?	5
Bilingual children’s vocabulary skills at 5 years predict reading comprehension development within, not across, languages	5
Supporting bilingualism during the COVID-19 pandemic: dual language bilingual education teachers’ experiences and challenges	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

Queer breaches and normative devices: language learners queering gender, sexuality, and the L2 classroom	4
Researching teacher multilingual-talk and student-benefits: rethinking knowledge blindness, diglossic cognition and its constructs	4
Multilingual adolescents: tension, negotiation, and agency	4
Narratives by bilingual children: a tale of strengths and growth during kindergarten	4
Second language reading and self-efficacy in bilingual and musical instruction. A study of reading ability	4
Family language planning strategies among Australian families of Arabic-speaking background	4
Language skills in Greek-English bilingual children attending Greek supplementary schools in England	4
Learning Māori in the workplace: non-Māori learners’ assessment of the value of te reo	4
Negation processing in Chinese–English bilinguals: insights from the Stroop paradigm and an orientation task	4
Identifying the assets of emergent bilingual middle school students’ writing: opportunities to validate students’ linguistic repertoires and identities	4
Family language policy in multilingual Luxembourg: the conceptual shift from a conflictual to a contrastive dynamic	4
The role of L1 self-efficacy in L2 reading comprehension: an exploration of L1–L2 cross-linguistic transfer	4
Bilinguals’ knowledge of ‘home’ and ‘school’ words revisited: evidence from Polish-English bilinguals	4
Language learner well-being in heritage language learning: conceptualisation, measurement, and a pathway to flourishing	4
Exploring the waning interest in Nuosu Yi education in Liangshan, China	4
Vietnamese Language, Education and Change in and Outside Vietnam	4
The influence of bilingualism and bidialectalism on executive control: evidence from a short-term language switching training paradigm	4