OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language and Intercultural Communication is 1. 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
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	47
Freire’s longevity in intercultural education: entangled histories from Colombian and Mexican higher education	24
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	24
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	23
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	21
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	19
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	17
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	15
Editorial	15
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	15
Editorial	13
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	12
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	11
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	10
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	10
Intercultural universities in Mexico: decolonizing the intercultural philosophy of education	9
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	8
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	8
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	8
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	8
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	7
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	7
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	7
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	6
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	6

Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	6
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	6
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	6
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	6
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	5
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	5
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	5
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	5
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	5
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
‘It’s a matter of personal attitudes rather than speakers’ nativeness’: Korean professionals’ perceptions of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF)	4
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
Chair’s notes	4
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	4
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	4
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	4
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	4
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	4
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	4
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	3
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	3
Language as Symbolic Power	3
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	3
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	3
Well-educated, middle-class Chinese immigrants in Canada	3
The multiplicity and dynamics of the interpreter’s roles in mediating cultural differences: a qualitative inquiry based on an international collaborative teacher professional development programme	3
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	3
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	3
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	3
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	3
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	3
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	3
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	3
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	3
The Politics of Researching Multilingually	2
Freire's Pedagogy of communication, action and transformation: an interview with José Eustáquio Romão	2
Hospitality as a model of interreligious communication	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	2
Banal nationalism and conversational cosmopolitanism: the potential of online language education for intercultural communication	2
‘Identity’ is not only about human relations: the relevance of human-to-non-human interaction in ‘identity’ articulation	2
Editorial	2

Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	2
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	2
It … he [the Moon] didn’t look tasty! Transnational children’s use of metaphors as a transcultural tool to gain symbolic power in family discourse	2
‘Coming here you should speak Chinese’: the multimodal construction of interculturality in YouTube videos	2
Addressing issues of (linguistic) vulnerability in researching UK asylum-related advice contexts: reflections on practice	2
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	2
Global fitness for global people: How to manage and leverage cultural diversity at work	2
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	2
Chinese EFL university teachers’ perceptions of culture teaching and their pedagogical practices	2
Breaking barriers: uniting Turkish and Greek students through eTwinning collaboration for empathy, understanding, and language anxiety relief	2
Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world	2
English is ‘the language everybody shares’ but it is ‘my native language’: language ideologies and interpersonal relationships among students in internationalizing higher education	2
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	2
Editorial	2
Intercultural communication, faith and impression management: former Muslims’ engagement with social media	1
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	1
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	1
‘So do you hear me? And “how” do you hear me?’ Perceptions of lecturers on students from Portuguese-speaking African countries in Portuguese higher education	1
Interculturality in higher education: putting critical approaches into practice	1
Functions of small talk in healthcare interpreting: an exploratory study in medical encounters facilitated by healthcare interpreters	1
Developing symbolic competence for intercultural learning of advanced EFL learners through critical incidents	1
Digital humanities pedagogy in action: insights from intercultural telecollaboration exploring inclusiveness of university campuses through art	1
Sociolinguistic aspects of integrating within the space of the ‘Other’: the case of Arab students in Jewish schools	1
Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia	1
My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language	1
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction	1
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	1
Liberating language education	1
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	1
Taking innovative humanising pedagogy towards Thirdness: sustaining the development of intercultural competence	1
From ethnography to performance: transforming interview narratives into artistic performative acts – The project ‘Greco’ at the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival	1
Racing neoliberalism and remote Indigenous education in the Northern Territory of Australia: a critical analysis of contemporary Indigenous education language policy and practice	1
Intercultural foreign language teaching and learning in higher education contexts	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	1
Applied ethnopoetic analysis, poetic inquiry and a practice of vulnerability: uncovering and undoing the vulnerabilities of refugees and asylum seekers seeking access to Higher Education	1
Pre-service teachers’ translingual negotiation strategies at work: telecollaboration between France, Turkey, and the USA	1
Cosmopolitan translation in multilingual cities: a Macao experience	1
From ivory tower to social arena: critical approaches to cultural identity in the public sphere	1
Beyond the mother tongue: language as cultural capital in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers	1
A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China	1
Challenges and opportunities in implementing intercultural education in higher education: the perceptions and practice of foreign language teachers in a Chinese university	1
‘We are not the same but feel like we are the same group’: international students’ language choice and identity construction at a Chinese university	1
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia: language use and attitudes in a bilingual region	1
Acculturation in a multicultural classroom: perspectives within the yin-yang metaphor framework	1
Literature and intercultural learning in language and teacher education	1
Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural	1
Promoting peace: colectivas, art, and cultural injustice in Mexico	1
The campaign for bodily autonomy and belonging in Grenoble, France: resisting epistemic violence, media discourse and othering	1
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme	1