OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Issues in Language Planning is 3. 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
Guest editor’s preface: special issue of Eastern and Northern European language policies and strategies: de jure and de facto approaches	32
Multilingual learning and language supportive pedagogies in sub-Saharan Africa Multilingual learning and language supportive pedagogies in sub-Saharan Africa , edited by	24
English-Medium Instruction Practices in Higher Education: International Perspectives English-Medium Instruction Practices in Higher Education: International Perspectives	13
Language policy and planning in Asia, Volume 1, theoretical approaches and practices	11
Characterising language policy and planning in international organisations: ASEAN insights	11
A panorama of linguistic landscape studies	11
Distractive language education policies and the endangerment of Indigenous languages in Bangladesh	11
Language management and its impact: the policies and practices of Confucius Institutes Language management and its impact: the policies and practices of Confucius Institutes	10
English as a subtle technology of distraction in postcolonial contexts: undoing linguistic colonialism by linguistic coloniality	10
The neoliberal structures of English in Japanese higher education: applying Bernstein’s pedagogic device	10
Language policy and governmentality: Chanting the Chinese Classics	9
‘It’s the Chinese that I don’t understand’: non-transmission of dialects in Franco-Chinese families’ language planning in France	8
English as a medium of instruction as part of the internationalization strategy at the University of Novi Sad	8
A tale of two languages: charting Chinese parents’ beliefs about and engagement with Chinese and English language learning	8
Common sense and resistance: EMI policy and practice in Indonesian universities	7
‘Building a new public idea about language’?: Multilingualism and language learning in the post-Brexit UK	7
Learners’ motivation caught between the interplay of policy and practice: a case study of an EMI medical program in China	7
Macro-level language policy and planning to promote and maintain English-taught programmes in Turkish higher education: a Process Tracing perspective	7
Multilingualism in the governance of a ‘monolingual’ country: micro language planning, dispute settlement and social governance in China	6
The language policy and planning in Shenzhen during the Greater Bay Area period: a bottom-up perspective	6
The gendered migrant experience: a study of family language policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali community, Bristol	6
Language planning and policies in Russia through a historical perspective	6
Which doors can English open? Exploring the opportunities of economically vulnerable Colombian higher education graduates	6
Strategic management of Welsh language training on a macro and micro level	5
Justifying the position and implementation of English language education in Finland: ‘ Circling around hot porridge’?	5

Lecturer identity as a nexus between EMI planning and practice: a case study at the University of Lleida (Spain)	5
Shifting ecologies of family language planning: Hungarian Australian families during COVID-19	4
Hungarian as a minority and majority language in different language policy contexts	4
‘Parallax language planning and policy’ as a theory for navigating (con)(diver)gent interpretations of English Medium Instruction (EMI)	4
Micro level language planning, agency, and ICT in community language schools: before, during and after the pandemic	4
Language ideologies in new media: grassroots resistance to a multilingual language policy	4
EMI programs in Azerbaijani Higher Education: analysis of macro, meso, and micro level agents’ perceptions of language policy and planning implementation	4
Teachers’ understanding of the importance of students’ mother tongue(s) in Qatar’s international English-medium primary schools: findings from Q method research	4
Contrasting a university's language policy with its linguistic landscape: a Norwegian case study	4
Russian language teachers’ professional agency against the backdrop of theNew National Teaching Quality Standardsin China: an ecological perspective	3
Salvaging Mandarin education in Singapore through community	3
Migration through a language planning lens: a typology of Welsh speakers’ migration decisions	3
Individual agency in language-in-education policy: a story of Chinese heritage language schools in multilingual Brussels	3
Sustaining and revitalizing Indigenous languages in Oklahoma public schools: educational sovereignty in language policy and planning	3