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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	51
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	27
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	27
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	25
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	21
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	17
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	16
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	16
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion: current issues and future challenges	16
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	15
Editorial	15
Editorial	15
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	14
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	12
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	11
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	10
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	10
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	10
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	9
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	9
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	9
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	8
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	8
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	8
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	8

Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	7
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	7
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	6
Dual identities? Transnational identities? Psychological acculturation research in dialogue with discursive approaches to the identity work of individuals with a migration background	6
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	6
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	6
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	6
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	6
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	6
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
‘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)	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	5
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	5
When the ‘language of the enemy’ is also one’s own: re-making multilingual selves in times of war	5
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	5
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	4
Photography as a methodological third-space: student knowledge about their material and embodied place-making	4
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	4
Quality and equity in education: a practical guide to the council of Europe vision of education for plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizenship	4
Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse	4
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	4
Chair’s notes	4
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	4
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	4
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	4
Language as Symbolic Power	3
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	3
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	3
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	3
The Politics of Researching Multilingually	3
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	3
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	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
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
Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	3
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	3
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	3
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	3
Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	3
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	3

Chinese EFL university teachers’ perceptions of culture teaching and their pedagogical practices	2
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	2
Breaking barriers: uniting Turkish and Greek students through eTwinning collaboration for empathy, understanding, and language anxiety relief	2
Editorial	2
Addressing issues of (linguistic) vulnerability in researching UK asylum-related advice contexts: reflections on practice	2
‘Coming here you should speak Chinese’: the multimodal construction of interculturality in YouTube videos	2
Global fitness for global people: How to manage and leverage cultural diversity at work	2
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	2
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	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
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	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
Taiji 松 ( Song ) practice: realizing an embodied openness for re-understanding self and other	2
Editorial	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	2
Hospitality as a model of interreligious communication	2
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
Taking innovative humanising pedagogy towards Thirdness: sustaining the development of intercultural competence	1
Intercultural communication, faith and impression management: former Muslims’ engagement with social media	1
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	1
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	1
English is ‘the language everybody shares’ but it is ‘my native language’: language ideologies and interpersonal relationships among students in internationalizing higher education	1
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	1
‘It’s no longer “that black woman”; it’s “that woman”’: language in the dynamics of vulnerability and resilience	1
Digital humanities pedagogy in action: insights from intercultural telecollaboration exploring inclusiveness of university campuses through art	1
Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia	1
Developing symbolic competence for intercultural learning of advanced EFL learners through critical incidents	1
The acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme	1
Cosmopolitan translation in multilingual cities: a Macao experience	1
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction	1
Challenges and opportunities in implementing intercultural education in higher education: the perceptions and practice of foreign language teachers in a Chinese university	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
Words apart: unravelling the language barrier plight of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong	1
A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China	1
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	1
Promoting peace: colectivas, art, and cultural injustice in Mexico	1
On the interculturality of Konglish: language labels, perceiving subjects, and metadiscursive regimes	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
‘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
The campaign for bodily autonomy and belonging in Grenoble, France: resisting epistemic violence, media discourse and othering	1
Beyond the mother tongue: language as cultural capital in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers	1
Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural	1
From ivory tower to social arena: critical approaches to cultural identity in the public sphere	1
Interculturality in higher education: putting critical approaches into practice	1
‘It would be better if you had a UK degree’: exploring the experiences of highly-skilled refugee women in the UK	1
Liberating language education	1
Intercultural communication in collaborative translation: language, identity, and social inclusion in Hong Kong	1
My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	1
Acculturation in a multicultural classroom: perspectives within the yin-yang metaphor framework	1
Intercultural foreign language teaching and learning in higher education contexts	1
Sociolinguistic aspects of integrating within the space of the ‘Other’: the case of Arab students in Jewish schools	1
Pre-service teachers’ translingual negotiation strategies at work: telecollaboration between France, Turkey, and the USA	1