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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Management teams' attitudes towards the Implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning in Moroccan secondary education: fostering multilingualism or perpetuating monolingual ideology	33
Sociolinguistic ecology disparities and linguistic landscaping in different urban spaces: the case of Hong Kong	28
Scoping review on primary school teachers’ beliefs on multilingualism in classroom teaching	27
Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging , by Jeff MacSwan, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2022, Pp.392, €54.95, ISBN 97	25
English and local languages in linguistic structuration of the public space in Islamabad and the neighbouring town	23
Resilience through language? A case study of three minority communities in Georgia	22
Interpersonal perception of emotional intensity by English first (L1) and foreign (LX) language users in audio(visual) communication	21
‘ Global without Borders’: language policy and the concerted cultivation of multilingualism	21
Early reading development of plurilingual children: a longitudinal study	18
Challenging journeys for minority language-speaking parents: teaching heritage language in inter-lingual families	16
Exploring multilingualism: insights from the language practices of an ethnic minority student	16
Third language English performance at the onset of schooling: effects of bilingualism and exposure in Catalan-Spanish bilingual children	15
The spiritual vision for learning Arabic and beyond: unpacking undergraduate students investments and identity negotiation in Kazakhstan	14
Impact of technology use on the construction of identity in language learners: a 2020–2024 systematic literature review	14
Exploring language learning strategies and autonomy: a case study of how polyglots master multiple languages	14
L3 English in the German secondary school context: longitudinal development of bilingual heritage speakers’ multilingual repertoire	13
Language awareness, strategy training and the facilitative role of L2 English: Polish L3 teachers' perceptions of multilingualism	13
Transnational narratives of ecological socialisation: exploring multilingual international students’ sociospatial practices through interview conversations	13
Affective life of Mongolian proverbs in times of COVID-19 lockdown in China	12
‘There are no restrictions on me’: a netnographic approach to amateur subtitling from the perspective of translanguaging	11
Exploring plurilingual and pluricultural competence among EFL students in Iran: A mixed methods study	11
Educators, parents and children engaging in literacy activities in multiple languages: an exploratory study	11
Rendering multilingualism in interdialectal dubbing: a case study of Moroccan-Syrian dubbing	11
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
Multilingual testing and assessment	10

Translanguaging stance of preschool teachers working with multilingual children in Luxembourg	10
Review of multilingualism and identity: Interdisciplinary perspectives	10
Multilingualism and history	9
Teachers’ perceptions of multilingual and language-aware practices in foreign language education in Finland	9
Connecting language and place in multilingual educational contexts in Norway and Finland	8
The potential trade-off between L3 Chinese proficiency and L1 Thai verbal fluency	8
Translingualism and solidarity in multiethnic communities	8
Improving productivity of language teaching in multi-cultural-lingual context: case study on Shanghai business school	8
Teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism: novel findings and methodological advancements: introduction to special issue	8
The internationalisation of higher education in linguistic educationscapes in Thailand	8
Developing and validating a questionnaire on prospective foreign language teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism	7
A bibliometric analysis of research trends in multilingualism in English medium instruction: towards translanguaging turn	7
Multilingual development: English in a global context	7
Contrastive language policies: a comparison of two multilingual linguistic landscapes where Spanish coexists with regional minority languages	7
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	7
‘I think mangiò might be passé simple’: exploring multilingual learners’ reflections on past tense verb morphology	7
Developing language awareness activities in the context of plurilingual education: two didactic models for language teaching practice	7
An ethnic minority speaker’s self-conflict in multilingual lived experience: a case study of IPA	7
Linguistic landscapes of peripheral small towns: a case study of Villány, Hungary	7
Unidirectional multilingual convergence: typological and social factors	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
Virtual linguistic landscape on the website of the faculty of cultural studies, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia	6
Language proficiency and emotional wellbeing in multilingual adolescents: comparing majority, heritage and foreign language	6
Linguistic landscape in transnational areas: a comparative study of African and Korean neighbourhoods in Guangzhou	6
Preparing pre-service teachers for superdiverse classrooms: the case of a collaborative school and university project	6
Exploring the nexus of variables in English-medium instruction research: a comprehensive global meta-analysis	6
Foreign language enjoyment in translanguaged EFL classrooms	6
Between play and precarity: translingual practices of youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina	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
Teacher engagement and roles in translanguaging in bilingual education in Xinjiang, China	6
Multiculturalism and multilingualism in higher education: intercultural activity participation and opportunities for language learning	6
Presence of ‘ARABIC’ in Kuala Lumpur’s multilingual linguistic landscape: heritage, religion, identity, business and mobility	6
The merit of grit and emotions in L2 Chinese online language achievement: a case of Arabian students	6
‘Talk about my name’: exploring the translanguaging potential of artifacts within multilingual parents’ early literacy practices with their children	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
Is ‘translanguaging’ an educational concept? A comparative bibliometric analysis of ‘translanguaging’ research from linguistic and the educational perspectives	5
Reliability assessment and construct validation of Translanguaging in Education and Social Settings Questionnaire (TESS)	5
Enhancing multilingual young students’ pragmatic awareness through pedagogical translanguaging	5
Transnational connections in discourse: stancetaking among heritage speakers of Spanish in the US context	5
Unpacking teachers’ beliefs about translanguaging in language learning: a qualitative meta-synthesis	5
Language learning space and legitimation of adult second language speakers in the workplace	5
Multilingual cyberpragmatics in instructional settings. Exploring gender and age effects in Catalan, Spanish and English email requests	5
Language choices reflecting social changes: multilingualism in the popular music of Guinean jelis	5
Multilingualism, identity and interculturality in education	5
A study on multimodal metaphor of emotions in emojis	5
Cognitive retroactive transfer of metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2) among trilingual learners	5
Teaching and learning third languages	4
Plurilingual foreign-language teaching in early EFL: exploring student perspectives and profiles	4
Implementing multilingual pedagogy in Finnish ECEC groups – from monolingual practices towards more systematic approaches	4
Perspectives and practices on using Swahili to teach and learn English in Tanzania’s secondary schools	4

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	4
Digital media as language and literacy learning spaces in multilingual families – survey results from Luxembourg	4
The language learning strategies of multilinguals: the influence of age of acquisition in early bilingualism	4
Multilingual selves and motivations for learning languages other than English in Asian contexts	4
More cues or more languages? word segmentation using statistical learning in multilinguals, bilinguals, and monolinguals	4
Cross-linguistic input experience in third language Spanish reading acquisition: an exploration of Chinese learners of Spanish	4
Becoming a speaker of German as an L1 French speaker: elite multilingualism as a means of distinction in a globalised world	4
A linguistic landscape study of shop signs on Barkhor Street in Lhasa	4
Online linguistic landscaping and indigenous languages in multilingual Ghana	4
Power, positioning, and precarity: identity negotiation and agency in multilingual minors in Canada	4
Retrieval practice plus feedback benefits a third language vocabulary learning	4
Difference in cognitive control ability between trilinguals and bilinguals: evidence from Stroop tasks via a mouse-tracking paradigm	4
Synthesizing STEAM integration in language education literature: trends, themes, and outcomes	4
Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities , edited by Ritu Jain, Abingdon and	4
Navigating identity, empowerment, and marginalization in a Turkish EMI terrain: the case of an international student	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
Navigating linguistic diversity toward ELF-informed pedagogy: Filipino teachers’ perceptions of their accent	4
Rethinking language policy Rethinking language policy , by Bernard Spolsky, Edinburgh, UK, EdinburghUniversity Press ltd., 2021, x+285 pp., £24.99, IS	4
Towards multilingual turn in language classes: plurilingual awareness as an indicator of intercultural communicative competence	4
Determining the pedagogical value of code-switching: functions of teacher code-switching in tertiary level mathematics classrooms	4
Globalising early childhood education (GECE)	4
Tension in the linguistic landscape: the implications of language choices for diversity and inclusion in multilingual museums representing minorities	4
Special issue 20/1: Development of ‘deficit perspectives’ among primary school teacher students in Austria	4
Translanguaging in Basque and English: practices and attitudes of university teachers and students	4
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning	4
The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study	4
Tailored CLIL training for education degrees based on student teachers’ perceptions of their competence to plan CLIL lessons	4
Language policies and practices in early childhood education: perspectives across European migration societies. Introduction to the special issue	4
The evidence of Embedded Language islands: the case of Pashto-English codeswitching	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
The initial state of third language acquisition: Chinese–English bilingual learners’ judgments of syntax in semi-artificial languages	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
Distributed liderazgo : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology	3
Correction	3
Evaluating linguistic comprehensibility of Persian healthcare translations in multilingual contexts: a case study of health translations website from the Victorian Government of Australia	3
Exploring the geo virtual linguistic landscape of Dublin urban areas: before and during the COVID-19 outbreak	3
Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway	3
Multilingualism and language endangerment flame via COVID-19-crisis communication	3
Building participatory video projects for multilingual schoolscapes	3
Language acts and worldmaking	3
Expression of Concern	3
Measuring international posture at an internationalised university in Barcelona: an exploration of gender, language, and educational and intercultural trajectories	3
An exploration of language teachers’ multilingual identities in Australia	3
Strategies used in learning Chinese vocabulary by adolescent Mandarin-Korean bilinguals in Korea	3
Developing sociolinguistic awareness through Japanese virtual linguistic landscapes in Sakubun classroom	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
Translanguaging in digital picturebook reading: a sociomaterial perspective	3
Twelve lectures on multilingualism	3
‘What’s the most beautiful language in the world?’: avoiding accusations of prejudice while reinforcing dominant ideologies in the mediatisation of multilingualism	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
Authorised voices: literacy practices of language revitalisation through education	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
Musical aptitude and silent reading fluency in adult multilingual learners of Spanish: an exploratory study	3
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
Analysing the factor structure of the plurilingual and pluricultural competence scale: dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the adapted Russian version	3
Policy and practice for multilingual educational settings: comparisons across contexts	3
Book Review: The Politics of Researching Multilingually	3
A book review on Paulo Freire and multilingual education: theoretical approaches, methodologies, and empirical analyses in language and literacy	3
Moving beyond the initial stages in L3/Ln research: toward theorising L3 development	3
Translingual discrimination Translingual discrimination , by Sender Dovchin, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2022, Pp. 90, $22.00 (paperback), ISB	3
Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces	3