OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Intercultural Communication is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	27
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	21
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	20
Flows of 氣 (Qi): reimagining language as living ecology through Chinese calligraphy and intercultural co-creation	14
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	14
Introducing language and intercultural communication (3rd edition)	13
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	12
Interculturality, linguistic diversity, and social inclusion: current issues and future challenges	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
Challenges of teaching intercultural competence and values	10
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	10
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	9
Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality	9
English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	9
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	9
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	9
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	9
Fighting is teaching: activism, teaching and perspectives on plurilingual education from the lands of Chaco	8
Explorations in digital interculturality: language, culture and postdigital practices	8
Performing interculturality as translocal digital food influencers	8
Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations	8
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	8
From initial encounter to lasting bonds: influential factors in intercultural friendship between Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese University Students	8
Teaching Chinese by culture and TV drama	8

Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	8
Resources for intercultural learning in a non-essentialist perspective: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions in Chinese universities	7
Exploring language ideologies in migration: expat versus immigrant in Nicaragua	7
Persuasion, positioning and issue framing: a cross-cultural comparison of British, German and Slovak political discourse relating to the Ukraine conflict	7
Challenges of translanguaging between school and online tutoring: agency under constraint in the learning of a Russian-speaking ethnic Korean migrant	7
To be or not to be internationalised: students’ experience of intercultural encounters in Hong Kong universities	7
Welcoming Languages: teaching a ‘refugee language’ to school staff to enact the principle of integration as a two-way process	7
Faith, displacement, and intergenerational relationships: a communication accommodation theory approach to the Ethiopian Orthodox diaspora	6
Exploring tutors’ communicative strategies in plurilingual academic contexts: a multilayered analysis	6
Biculturalism in (inter)action in Aotearoa New Zealand: an Interactional Sociolinguistics analysis of workplace practice in a context of conscious learning	6
Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China	6
A framework for critical transnational research: advancing plurilingual, intercultural, and inter-epistemic collaboration in the academy	5
When the ‘language of the enemy’ is also one’s own: re-making multilingual selves in times of war	5
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	5
Exploring digital translanguaging practices through Citywalk vlogging: insights from Macao’s linguistic landscape	5
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar	5
Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language: affect, embodiment and materiality in times of ‘crisis’	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
Virtual Exchange as an educational tool in contexts of conflict: potential and challenges	5
Language education for migrant/refugee inmates inside two prisons in Greece: a nexus analysis research	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
Quality and equity in education: a practical guide to the council of Europe vision of education for plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizenship	5
Unpacking Syrian international students’ expectations, challenges and future selves in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry	5
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
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	4
Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse	4
Photography as a methodological third-space: student knowledge about their material and embodied place-making	4
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	4
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	4
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	4
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	4
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	4
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	4
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	4
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	4
Developing and sustaining critical intercultural competence through confronting hidden bias in children’s literature in EFL preservice teacher education	4
Co-creating plurilingual and intercultural community-based learning projects for migrant women	4
Decolonising plurilingualism in contexts of postcolonial migration: crossed perspectives from France and England	4
Chair’s notes	4
Implications of past and present equivocations in reproducing or challenging epistemic violence in encounters with difference	4
Bands of Activist Poetry: visual kindness cards based on children’s rights thinking	4