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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	43
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	25
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	20
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	18
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion: current issues and future challenges	13
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	13
Introducing language and intercultural communication (3rd edition)	13
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	12
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	11
Editorial	11
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality: an ethnographic exploration of a migrant English language teacher’s journey in the South Korean classroom	10
Plurilingual and intercultural education as educational activism for social transformation: perspectives, pathways, and possibilities	10
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	10
Challenges of teaching intercultural competence and values	9
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	8
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	8
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	8
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	8
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	8
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	8
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
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	8
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	7
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	7

Virtual Exchange as an educational tool in contexts of conflict: potential and challenges	7
Fighting is teaching: activism, teaching and perspectives on plurilingual education from the lands of Chaco	7
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	7
Biculturalism in (inter)action in Aotearoa New Zealand: an Interactional Sociolinguistics analysis of workplace practice in a context of conscious learning	7
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	7
From initial encounter to lasting bonds: influential factors in intercultural friendship between Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese University Students	7
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	6
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	6
Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language: affect, embodiment and materiality in times of ‘crisis’	6
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	6
Banal, civic, and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates: paradoxical discourses and complexities	6
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	6
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
Quality and equity in education: a practical guide to the council of Europe vision of education for plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizenship	5
Children’s theatre in L1 and L2 as an intercultural communication tool for educators	5
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	5
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	5
New methodologies – new interculturalities? The visionary discourse of post-qualitative research on the intercultural	5
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	5
The context of study abroad: affordances and constraints in the development of plurilingual identity	5
When the ‘language of the enemy’ is also one’s own: re-making multilingual selves in times of war	5
Reconstructing British identity: Formula One, Michael Schumacher and the British Press at the turn of the century	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
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	4
Bands of Activist Poetry: visual kindness cards based on children’s rights thinking	4
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	4
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	4
Chair’s notes	4
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Photography as a methodological third-space: student knowledge about their material and embodied place-making	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	4
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	4
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	4
Co-creating plurilingual and intercultural community-based learning projects for migrant women	4
Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse	4
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	4
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	3
Questioning translanguaging creativity through Michel de Certeau	3
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	3
Editorial: COVID-19 and interculturality	3
‘Speak Hokkien’: language revitalisation and discursive opportunity structures for Chinese in Penang, Malaysia	3
The Politics of Researching Multilingually	3
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	3
Imagining and experiencing hospitalities and interculturalities in a mobile world	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
Accommodating diversity in linguistic and intercultural teaching: can CLIL do the job?	3
Imagining and experiencing hospitality during study abroad	3
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	3

Syrian refugees receiving information: an approach to dissemination of medical resources	3
Translingual play in networked socialization for transcultural communication: stylized performance and participatory discourse on YouTube	3
Socio-cultural semiotic analysis of Palestinian films on gender-based violence	3
Editorial	3
Editorial	3
Liberating language education	2
Hospitality as a model of interreligious communication	2
The Routledge handbook of critical interculturality in communication and education	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
Global fitness for global people: How to manage and leverage cultural diversity at work	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
‘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	2
A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China	2
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	2
Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark	2
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	2
Linguistic and sociocultural strategies in a transnational context: Chinese-speaking sojourners’ multidimensional adjustments in the UK	2
Chinese EFL university teachers’ perceptions of culture teaching and their pedagogical practices	2
Editorial	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
Words apart: unravelling the language barrier plight of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong	2
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	2
Rethinking family language policy through translanguaging space	2
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	2
Breaking barriers: uniting Turkish and Greek students through eTwinning collaboration for empathy, understanding, and language anxiety relief	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
Intercultural communication in collaborative translation: language, identity, and social inclusion in Hong Kong	2
Power relations and change in intercultural communication education: Zhongyong as a complementary analytical framework	2
Intercultural communication, faith and impression management: former Muslims’ engagement with social media	2
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	2
Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural	1
Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia	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
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
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
On the interculturality of Konglish: language labels, perceiving subjects, and metadiscursive regimes	1
Chair's note	1
Indigenous female leadership in a plurilingual context: embracing participatory action in intercultural education	1
Editorial	1
Navigating language, culture, and futures: Asian international students’ self-formation in China’s higher education	1
‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country	1
Digital humanities pedagogy in action: insights from intercultural telecollaboration exploring inclusiveness of university campuses through art	1
The campaign for bodily autonomy and belonging in Grenoble, France: resisting epistemic violence, media discourse and othering	1
Promoting peace: colectivas, art, and cultural injustice in Mexico	1
Editorial	1
‘It would be better if you had a UK degree’: exploring the experiences of highly-skilled refugee women in the UK	1
Developing symbolic competence for intercultural learning of advanced EFL learners through critical incidents	1
A research trajectory for difficult times: decentring language and intercultural communication	1
Identity work in conservative political discourse: a cross-cultural comparison	1
The practice of intercultural musicking – a ‘Mirky’ business	1
Transcending the classroom: (de)stigmatising foreign cultures through foreign language teaching	1
Sociolinguistic aspects of integrating within the space of the ‘Other’: the case of Arab students in Jewish schools	1
Acculturation in a multicultural classroom: perspectives within the yin-yang metaphor framework	1
Taking innovative humanising pedagogy towards Thirdness: sustaining the development of intercultural competence	1
Migrants’ NATION-AS-BODY metaphors as expressions of transnational identities	1
Interculturality in higher education: putting critical approaches into practice	1
My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language	1
‘It’s no longer “that black woman”; it’s “that woman”’: language in the dynamics of vulnerability and resilience	1
‘Small stories’, big meanings: discursive and emotional constructions of intercultural life among Chinese students in the UK	1
Chair's Notes	1
Situating English language teaching in culturally specific contexts: a narrative case study into teachers’ intercultural experiences	1
Word search sequences in video-mediated task-oriented L2 interactions: affordances for intercultural exchange	1
Learning by contesting: intercultural responsibility through sustainability-driven higher education	1
Beyond the ‘similar other’: historicising and mediating the visibility of African housewives in rural China	1