OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Multilingualism is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Sociolinguistic ecology disparities and linguistic landscaping in different urban spaces: the case of Hong Kong	30
Interpersonal perception of emotional intensity by English first (L1) and foreign (LX) language users in audio(visual) communication	25
Scoping review on primary school teachers’ beliefs on multilingualism in classroom teaching	25
Resilience through language? A case study of three minority communities in Georgia	20
Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging , by Jeff MacSwan, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2022, Pp.392, €54.95, ISBN 97	20
‘ Global without Borders’: language policy and the concerted cultivation of multilingualism	19
English and local languages in linguistic structuration of the public space in Islamabad and the neighbouring town	19
Early reading development of plurilingual children: a longitudinal study	18
The spiritual vision for learning Arabic and beyond: unpacking undergraduate students investments and identity negotiation in Kazakhstan	18
Transnational narratives of ecological socialisation: exploring multilingual international students’ sociospatial practices through interview conversations	17
Educators, parents and children engaging in literacy activities in multiple languages: an exploratory study	17
Multilingual socialisation in education (M-SOC): educator engagement and potential for collective action	15
L3 English in the German secondary school context: longitudinal development of bilingual heritage speakers’ multilingual repertoire	15
Third language English performance at the onset of schooling: effects of bilingualism and exposure in Catalan-Spanish bilingual children	14
Challenging journeys for minority language-speaking parents: teaching heritage language in inter-lingual families	13
Affective life of Mongolian proverbs in times of COVID-19 lockdown in China	13
‘There are no restrictions on me’: a netnographic approach to amateur subtitling from the perspective of translanguaging	13
The role of L1 and L2 in the acquisition of null subjects by Chinese learners of L3 Italian	12
A review of existing transliteration approaches and methods	12
Exploring multilingualism: insights from the language practices of an ethnic minority student	12
Translanguaging stance of preschool teachers working with multilingual children in Luxembourg	12
Language awareness, strategy training and the facilitative role of L2 English: Polish L3 teachers' perceptions of multilingualism	11
Developing language awareness activities in the context of plurilingual education: two didactic models for language teaching practice	11
Multilingualism and history	10
Teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism: novel findings and methodological advancements: introduction to special issue	10

Multilingual testing and assessment	10
Review of language learning in study abroad: the multilingual turn Language learning in study abroad: the multilingual turn , by Wenhao Diao and Emma Trentman, Bristol,	10
The internationalisation of higher education in linguistic educationscapes in Thailand	10
Review of multilingualism and identity: Interdisciplinary perspectives	10
The potential trade-off between L3 Chinese proficiency and L1 Thai verbal fluency	9
‘I think mangiò might be passé simple’: exploring multilingual learners’ reflections on past tense verb morphology	8
Translingualism and solidarity in multiethnic communities	8
Multilingual language minority parents’ perspectives on their relationships with caregivers regarding the multilingual upbringing of the child: a large-scale exploration within childcare facilities in	8
An ethnic minority speaker’s self-conflict in multilingual lived experience: a case study of IPA	8
Contrastive language policies: a comparison of two multilingual linguistic landscapes where Spanish coexists with regional minority languages	7
Multilingual publication practices in the social sciences and humanities at a Polish university: choices and pressures	7
Foreign language enjoyment in translanguaged EFL classrooms	7
A bibliometric analysis of research trends in multilingualism in English medium instruction: towards translanguaging turn	7
Unidirectional multilingual convergence: typological and social factors	7
Presence of ‘ARABIC’ in Kuala Lumpur’s multilingual linguistic landscape: heritage, religion, identity, business and mobility	7
Improving productivity of language teaching in multi-cultural-lingual context: case study on Shanghai business school	7
Multilingual development: English in a global context	7
Language proficiency and emotional wellbeing in multilingual adolescents: comparing majority, heritage and foreign language	6
The impact of studying abroad on language choice in social networking sites: a comparative study of Azerbaijani students in Türkiye and at home	6
Preparing pre-service teachers for superdiverse classrooms: the case of a collaborative school and university project	6
‘Talk about my name’: exploring the translanguaging potential of artifacts within multilingual parents’ early literacy practices with their children	6
Reliability assessment and construct validation of Translanguaging in Education and Social Settings Questionnaire (TESS)	6
Multiculturalism and multilingualism in higher education: intercultural activity participation and opportunities for language learning	6
The merit of grit and emotions in L2 Chinese online language achievement: a case of Arabian students	6
‘I don’t want to see the foreign languages connected with our family disappear’: building and maintaining a multilingual family in the monolingual context of Vietnam	6
Language choices reflecting social changes: multilingualism in the popular music of Guinean jelis	6
Is ‘translanguaging’ an educational concept? A comparative bibliometric analysis of ‘translanguaging’ research from linguistic and the educational perspectives	6
Exploring the nexus of variables in English-medium instruction research: a comprehensive global meta-analysis	6
Korean-speaking spaces: heritage language learning and community access for mixed-race Korean Americans	6
Transnational connections in discourse: stancetaking among heritage speakers of Spanish in the US context	6
Unpacking teachers’ beliefs about translanguaging in language learning: a qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Romance languages and EFL: friends or foes? A study on the effects of romance intercomprehension training on plurilingual competence and EFL reading skills in young learners	6
Exploiting foreign language student-teachers’ visual language biographies to challenge the monolingual mind-set in foreign language education	5
Cognitive retroactive transfer of metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2) among trilingual learners	5
Retrieval practice plus feedback benefits a third language vocabulary learning	5
Perspectives and practices on using Swahili to teach and learn English in Tanzania’s secondary schools	5
Multilingual cyberpragmatics in instructional settings. Exploring gender and age effects in Catalan, Spanish and English email requests	5
Language learning space and legitimation of adult second language speakers in the workplace	5
Determining the pedagogical value of code-switching: functions of teacher code-switching in tertiary level mathematics classrooms	5
Word knowledge and word usage: a cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon Word knowledge and word usage: a cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon , edited	5
Tension in the linguistic landscape: the implications of language choices for diversity and inclusion in multilingual museums representing minorities	5
Linguistic landscape in transnational areas: a comparative study of African and Korean neighbourhoods in Guangzhou	5
A study on multimodal metaphor of emotions in emojis	5
Teaching and learning third languages	5
Globalising early childhood education (GECE)	5
Implementing multilingual pedagogy in Finnish ECEC groups – from monolingual practices towards more systematic approaches	4
‘So, mein Deutsch ist schlecht … ’: echoes of societal attitudes and education language policies within the family language policies of second- and third-generation German speakers in Newcastle, Austr	4
More cues or more languages? word segmentation using statistical learning in multilinguals, bilinguals, and monolinguals	4
Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities , edited by Ritu Jain, Abingdon and	4
Cross-linguistic input experience in third language Spanish reading acquisition: an exploration of Chinese learners of Spanish	4

Multilingual selves and motivations for learning languages other than English in Asian contexts	4
Becoming a speaker of German as an L1 French speaker: elite multilingualism as a means of distinction in a globalised world	4
Discursive constructions of language variation in a Chinese-German eTandem	4
Enhancing multilingual young students’ pragmatic awareness through pedagogical translanguaging	4
Navigating linguistic diversity toward ELF-informed pedagogy: Filipino teachers’ perceptions of their accent	4
Synthesizing STEAM integration in language education literature: trends, themes, and outcomes	4
Analysing the factor structure of the plurilingual and pluricultural competence scale: dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the adapted Russian version	4
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning	4
Digital media as language and literacy learning spaces in multilingual families – survey results from Luxembourg	4
Online linguistic landscaping and indigenous languages in multilingual Ghana	4
A linguistic landscape study of shop signs on Barkhor Street in Lhasa	4
Towards multilingual turn in language classes: plurilingual awareness as an indicator of intercultural communicative competence	4
Plurilingual foreign-language teaching in early EFL: exploring student perspectives and profiles	4
Language policies and practices in early childhood education: perspectives across European migration societies. Introduction to the special issue	4
The language learning strategies of multilinguals: the influence of age of acquisition in early bilingualism	4
The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study	4
Special issue 20/1: Development of ‘deficit perspectives’ among primary school teacher students in Austria	4
Rethinking language policy Rethinking language policy , by Bernard Spolsky, Edinburgh, UK, EdinburghUniversity Press ltd., 2021, x+285 pp., £24.99, IS	4
Using oral narratives to examine acquisition of English verb morphology among multilingual Arabic and monolingual Hebrew speakers: finding similarities with monolingual English-speaking SLIs	3
Book Review: The Politics of Researching Multilingually	3
An exploration of language teachers’ multilingual identities in Australia	3
Translanguaging and multimodality in the linguistic landscape of a Chinese community in Johor Bahru, Malaysia	3
A book review on Paulo Freire and multilingual education: theoretical approaches, methodologies, and empirical analyses in language and literacy	3
The motivational dynamics of learning a foreign language of limited ethnolinguistic vitality during a study abroad	3
Twelve lectures on multilingualism	3
Translanguaging in digital picturebook reading: a sociomaterial perspective	3
Correction	3
Expression of Concern	3
Authorised voices: literacy practices of language revitalisation through education	3
Language acts and worldmaking	3
Distributed liderazgo : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology	3
Musical aptitude and silent reading fluency in adult multilingual learners of Spanish: an exploratory study	3
Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces	3
Multilingual interplay and the influence of the official languages on the use and transmission of the regional language Pashto: a case study of a Pashtun family in Pakistan	3
Forbidding and valuing home languages – divergent practices and policies in a German nursery school	3
Working memory in multilinguals: factors that assist and impede	3
Moving beyond the initial stages in L3/Ln research: toward theorising L3 development	3
Policy and practice for multilingual educational settings: comparisons across contexts	3
Multilingualism and language endangerment flame via COVID-19-crisis communication	3
Strategies used in learning Chinese vocabulary by adolescent Mandarin-Korean bilinguals in Korea	3
‘I came to the Basque Country, and now I have to learn their language’. Migrant students’ attitudes towards the use of a minority language	3
Measuring international posture at an internationalised university in Barcelona: an exploration of gender, language, and educational and intercultural trajectories	3
Translanguaging in Basque and English: practices and attitudes of university teachers and students	3
Developing sociolinguistic awareness through Japanese virtual linguistic landscapes in Sakubun classroom	3
Building participatory video projects for multilingual schoolscapes	3
The acquisition of Polarity Items in L3/Ln Catalan by speakers of English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: implications for L3/Ln development theorising and language teaching	3
Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway	3
Exploring the geo virtual linguistic landscape of Dublin urban areas: before and during the COVID-19 outbreak	3
Translingual discrimination Translingual discrimination , by Sender Dovchin, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2022, Pp. 90, $22.00 (paperback), ISB	3
Methods in study abroad research. Past, present and future Methods in study abroad research. Past, present and future , edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Cristina Sanz, A	3
Research Developments in World Englishes Research Developments in World Englishes , edited by Alexander Onysko, London, Bloomsbury, 2021, xiii+306 pp., £ 85,50 (hardback	3
The evidence of Embedded Language islands: the case of Pashto-English codeswitching	3
Tibetan in the linguistic landscape of Xining (Qinghai Province, Amdo Tibet, Northwest China): a minority language in the context of a monolingual language policy and in a non-autonomous area	3