OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Intercultural Communication is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It’s kind of like a middle ground’: students’ strategic management of silence in multicultural group work	44
From ethnography to performance: transforming interview narratives into artistic performative acts – The project ‘Greco’ at the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival	23
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring	23
Intercultural communicative competence in the digital age: critical digital literacy and inquiry-based pedagogy	21
An intercultural approach to English language teaching: 2nd edition	18
Literature and intercultural learning in language and teacher education	18
Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world Political philosophy from an intercultural perspective: power relations in a global world	17
Intercultural communication, creative practice and embodied activisms: arts-based interculturality in the Maghreb	14
The experiences of Mexican language teachers in transnational contexts	13
Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research	11
English is ‘the language everybody shares’ but it is ‘my native language’: language ideologies and interpersonal relationships among students in internationalizing higher education	11
Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: conflict, crisis, and creativity	10
Ethnification and ethnic stereotypes in Nigeria: a discourse-historical analysis of tweets on Emdee Tiamiyu’s BBC interview	10
Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: a dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions	10
Constructing interculturality through intercultural dialogues and autoethnography: building relations, nurturing preparedness and rejecting boundaries	9
Migrants’ NATION-AS-BODY metaphors as expressions of transnational identities	9
Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research	9
The social semiotic of reclaiming an identity from racist discourse: investigating the subaltern identity of South African coloureds by means of intersectional discourse analysis	8
Intercultural communication education and research: reenvisioning fundamental notions	8
Lost in translation: intercultural understanding in oral interactions in an e-tandem virtual exchange	7
Enhancing language teachers’ skills for intercultural instruction: affordance of collaborative reflection	7
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia: language use and attitudes in a bilingual region	7
Neoliberal common sense and Erasmus student mobility: how do prospective English language teachers construct their experiences?	7
Fostering intercultural competence through EMI	6
Transcending the classroom: (de)stigmatising foreign cultures through foreign language teaching	6

Freire’s longevity in intercultural education: entangled histories from Colombian and Mexican higher education	6
Editorial	5
The ‘similar other’: the construction of African housewives in rural China in short videos	5
Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university	5
Intercultural knowledge production: against gender-based violence and towards epistemic justice	5
Language, culture and interculturality: global debates, local challenges	5
Learning beyond language: an ethnographic study of language socialization in English conversation groups	5
Liberating language education	4
Collective vulnerability between the researcher and the researched: a reflection on researcher positionality and ‘safety’ in the study of Islamophobia in economic Muslim migrants	4
‘They are not very open to people’: how mobile students construct interculturality through metaphor and narrative	4
Chair’s notes	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 Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations	4
Editorial	4
Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism	4
Nationalism: threat or opportunity to critical intercultural communication?	4
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform	4
Making sense of the unexpected: critical incident training in three Chinese universities	3
Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality	3
Interrupting the cognitive empire: keynote drama as cultural justice	3
International students' mobility and value added through internationalization of higher education in Estonia and Denmark	3
Vulnerability and multilingualism in intercultural research with migrants: developing an inclusive research practice	3
Experiences of and preparedness for Intercultural Teacherhood in Higher Education: non-specialist English teachers’ positioning, agency and sense of legitimacy in China	3
A study of English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China	3
Reflexive participant collaboration: researching ‘with’ adult migrant learners of English	3
English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions	3
Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ): stunned languaging as poetic cries for a heartbreaking scholarship	3
Identity work in conservative political discourse: a cross-cultural comparison	3
Digital ethnography through videoshadowing: everyday life in foreign language and intercultural communicative competence	3
Bridging cultures and languages through cosmopolitan translation: a case of Macao’s Chinese-Portuguese bilingual street signs	3
Revisiting ‘foreignness’: Nationalism and language education	3
University-level students’ stances, communication of negative emotions, and L2 swearing with respect to EMI during classroom interaction	2
Intercultural universities in Mexico: decolonizing the intercultural philosophy of education	2
Chair's note	2
‘Blocks’ and ‘threads’: Chinese students’ constructions of ‘culture’ in their reflections on ‘critical incidents’ experienced during a short-term study abroad programme in the UK	2
Heritage language communities as sites of struggle and identity negotiation: a case of Korean–American university students	2
Well-educated, middle-class Chinese immigrants in Canada	2
Beyond the mother tongue: language as cultural capital in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers	2
Instagram for learning interculturally: a blueprint in a global Englishes era	2
Intercultural communication in interpreting: power and choices	2
Editorial	2
Translanguaging as transformation: the collaborative construction of new linguistic realities	2
Editorial	2
Shifting perspectives when it comes to the cultural ‘other’: students’ reflections of their intercultural encounters during study abroad	2
‘You know what we Latinos are like’: intragroup evaluations and relations among outsourced Latin American workers in London	2
An ethnography on the linguistic challenges and EAL support for teenage Chinese EAL students in an independent school	2
Spatial repertoire, translingual creativity, and identity in Chinese speakers’ online intercultural experience	2
Intermedia and interculturalism: practitioners’ perspectives on an interactive theatre for young ethnic minority students in Hong Kong	2
Learning and using languages in ethnographic research	2

The use of blind-portrait: an opportunity to de-essentialise intercultural, educational research	2
Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times	2
Language as Symbolic Power	2
News production and intercultural communication at the crossroads of disciplines	2
Conceptualizing translanguaging as sociomaterial intra-actions: materialization of language norms in a virtual EFL classroom in rural China	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
Investment in transnational identity to become microcelebrities in China: on American uploaders’ success in a Chinese video-sharing website	2