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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	50
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	25
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	25
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	24
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	17
Editorial	16
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	16
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	16
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	15
Editorial	15
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	14
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	13
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	12
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	11
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	10
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	10
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	10
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
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	8
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	8
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	8
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	7
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	7

Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	6
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	6
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	6
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	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
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	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
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	5
Beyond and besides language: intercultural communication and creative practice	5
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	5
Engaging non-essentialism as lived wisdom: a dialogue between intercultural communication and Buddhism	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
Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
Voice activated: a transformative approach to language learning	4
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities	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
Language as Symbolic Power	4
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	4
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	4
Quality and equity in education: a practical guide to the council of Europe vision of education for plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizenship	4
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	4
Chair’s notes	4
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Well-educated, middle-class Chinese immigrants in Canada	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
Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	3
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	3
Editorial	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
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	3
Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	3
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	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
The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	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 Politics of Researching Multilingually	3
Taiji 松 ( Song ) practice: realizing an embodied openness for re-understanding self and other	2

‘Coming here you should speak Chinese’: the multimodal construction of interculturality in YouTube videos	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
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
‘Identity’ is not only about human relations: the relevance of human-to-non-human interaction in ‘identity’ articulation	2
Global fitness for global people: How to manage and leverage cultural diversity at work	2
Breaking barriers: uniting Turkish and Greek students through eTwinning collaboration for empathy, understanding, and language anxiety relief	2
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	2
Addressing issues of (linguistic) vulnerability in researching UK asylum-related advice contexts: reflections on practice	2
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	2
Hospitality as a model of interreligious communication	2
Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters	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
Banal nationalism and conversational cosmopolitanism: the potential of online language education for intercultural communication	2
Chinese EFL university teachers’ perceptions of culture teaching and their pedagogical practices	2
Editorial	2
‘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
Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural	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
Functions of small talk in healthcare interpreting: an exploratory study in medical encounters facilitated by healthcare interpreters	1
‘It would be better if you had a UK degree’: exploring the experiences of highly-skilled refugee women in the UK	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 acquisition of intercultural competence among international and domestic students in China through an internationalisation at home programme	1
The campaign for bodily autonomy and belonging in Grenoble, France: resisting epistemic violence, media discourse and othering	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
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	1
Words apart: unravelling the language barrier plight of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong	1
Challenges and opportunities in implementing intercultural education in higher education: the perceptions and practice of foreign language teachers in a Chinese university	1
Transcending the classroom: (de)stigmatising foreign cultures through foreign language teaching	1
Digital humanities pedagogy in action: insights from intercultural telecollaboration exploring inclusiveness of university campuses through art	1
On the interculturality of Konglish: language labels, perceiving subjects, and metadiscursive regimes	1
Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia	1
Promoting peace: colectivas, art, and cultural injustice in Mexico	1
Sociolinguistic aspects of integrating within the space of the ‘Other’: the case of Arab students in Jewish schools	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
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
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	1
A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China	1
‘It’s no longer “that black woman”; it’s “that woman”’: language in the dynamics of vulnerability and resilience	1
Pre-service teachers’ translingual negotiation strategies at work: telecollaboration between France, Turkey, and the USA	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
Developing symbolic competence for intercultural learning of advanced EFL learners through critical incidents	1
Cosmopolitan translation in multilingual cities: a Macao experience	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	1
My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language	1
Interculturality in higher education: putting critical approaches into practice	1
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction	1
Intercultural foreign language teaching and learning in higher education contexts	1
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	1
Liberating language education	1
Intercultural communication in collaborative translation: language, identity, and social inclusion in Hong Kong	1