OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Language Identity and Education 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
Routine Literacy Practices as a Cultural Agenda: Children’s Experiences of Writing “Difficult” Chinese Characters in Australia	37
Minority Languages in Academia: The Arabic Language in the Israeli Academy	31
Language Attitudes as Insights into Indigenous Language Shift and Maintenance	31
Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students: Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project, edited by City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilingual	26
Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual and Immersion Education: Solution-Oriented Research and Stakeholder Resources for Real Integration , by Delavan, M. G. Frei	24
The Act of Transitions: Exploring Cultural Aptitude Through Drama for Language Development	24
Volume 21 Thanks	21
Race, Racism, and Antiracism in Language Education, by Ryuko, K. & Suhanthie, M. (2024).	19
Centering Latina/o Bilingual Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with Marginalizing Figures of Personhood	18
“Esprit de Corps”: Ingroup Identity Construction and Contextual Conceptualisations Among the (Para)military Discourse Community	17
Education and the Politics of Cultural Survival for Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey	17
Reinventing the Legitimate Speaker of Suburban Swedish: Negotiating Boundaries Through Linguistic Citizenship in a Swedish Classroom	16
(Why) See Yourself as Plurilingual: Intercomprehension and Motivation Towards the Learning of LOTEs in Young Learners	15
“The Story is One, No Matter the Language”: The Triadic Role of Bilingual Children’s Literature, as Perceived by Preservice Teachers	13
Becoming Uyghur Elites: How Uyghur Women in a Mainstream Chinese University Negotiate Their Gendered Identities	12
A Coat of Many Colours: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Language Uses at Two South African Higher Education Institutions	12
Unprepared for Superdiversity: Teacher Agency and Constraint in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse French Elementary Classroom	12
Ecological Ethical Approaches in Education and Technology for Sustaining “Xun” Culture in the Yellow River Basin	12
Translanguaging and Family Language Policy: An Investigation of Korean Short-Term Stayers’ Language Practice at Home	11
Language Brokering Over Time: A Study of Citizenship Becoming Through a Transliteracies Framework	11
Monolingual Momentum: The Limits of Critical Language Awareness in a Hybrid Science Learning Environment	11
Identity in Applied Linguistics Research, by McEntee-Atalianis, L.	10
The Performance of Queer Identities by Two Spanish L2 Learners During Study Abroad	10
Categorisation as Positioning-Practice in a Dutch as Second Language Classroom	10
Plurilingual Identity Positioning of Newcomer Children with Emerging Print Literacy	10

Language in Professional Communication and National Identity of Ukrainian Civil Servants-Bilinguals	10
Engaging Opportunities: A Small Moments Reflexive Inquiry of Translanguaging in a Graduate TESOL Course	10
The Development of Exceptional EFL Learner Identity: A Narrative Inquiry of Former Gifted Learners	9
Interculturality and the English Language Classroom by Victoria, M. & Sangiamchit, C. (2021)	9
Community Discourses of Language Reclamation through Irish Medium Youth Work	9
Negotiating Language Ideologies in Adolescent Bilingual Peer Mentoring	8
Striking a Balance Between Researchers’ and Learners’ Voices in L2/FL Empirical Studies: A Guide to the Group Repertory Grid Approach	8
A Parent’s Multimodal Support to Bilingual Child’s Reading: A Case Study of Korean Immigrant Family	8
Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia: Shaping Inclusive Societies, Identities, and Futures, by Pradhan, U. & Gupta, M. (Eds.). (2025).	8
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, by Baker-Bell, A.	7
Professional Identity Development of Iranian EFL Teachers: Workplace Conflicts and Identity Fluctuations	7
Preparing teachers to work with multilingual learnersWernicke, M., Hammer, S., Hansen, A., & Schroedler, T. (Eds.). (2021). Preparing teachers to work with multilingual learners. Multilingual Matt	7
Language Teacher Identity Construction: Reflective Conversation	7
Language Teacher Researcher Identity Construction in Activity: Navigating Entanglement of Two English PSTs in Undergraduate Thesis Work in the Indonesian Context	7
Literacy and Identity Related to Children’s Education, Work, and Health: Conversations Among Adult ESL Learners from Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds	6
Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change (1st ed.), by Pu, C. and Wright, W. E.	6
“Springboard” vs. “Homecoming”: Unravelling Chinese Rural EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of their Work, Professional Identities and Teaching Practices	6
Correction	6
Academic Research Network Management: Sociocultural Perspectives from Languages Other Than English	6
Multilingual Learners in Language Programs: An Exploration of Parent Choice	6
Investments of High School EFL Teachers: Negotiating Professional Identities, Forms of Capital, and Societal Ideologies	6
Coercive Conditions and Strategic Compliance: Vietnamese EFL Teacher Identity Construction and Neoliberal Values	6
Preparing Pre-Service Content Area Teachers Through Translanguaging	6
Coping with Teacher Professional Identity Tensions: Using TPACK During Global Crisis Time	5
From Compliance to Criticality: Language Investment, Ideologies and Learners’ Imagined Identities in Postcolonial Pakistan	5
The Education of Arabic Speaking Refugee Children and Young Adults Education, Employment and Social Inclusion, by Maadad, N. & Darmawan, I. G. N.	5
Teachers’ Awareness and Management of the Social, Cultural, and Political Indexicalities of Translanguaging	5
Teaching Pride Forward: Building LGBTQ+ Allyship in English Language Teaching, by Trinh, T., Reynolds, K. M., and Coda, J. (Eds.). (2024).	5
Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis: Examining Multilingual, Multicultural Pupils’ Interpretation of Canon Literature	5
Adolescent English Learners’ Awareness of Disciplinary Writing and Academic Language in Science Classrooms: The Affordances of a Register-Functional Perspective	5
Divergent Perspectives on Identifying Heritage Speakers: Unraveling the Complex Differences in How Speakers See Themselves and Others	5
Translanguaging in Teaching and Learning Science in Selected Multilingual Elementary Classrooms in the Philippines	5
“We are Not All Named Maria”: Building Transnational Identities in a United States International Baccalaureate High School	5
Identities of Non-English-Dominant Teachers-In-Training: Alignments and Tensions	5
Disciplinary Practices with Multilingual Learners in the Content Areas: Investigating Grasp of Practice in Fifth-Grade Science	5
Language Learners’ Transferable Skills and Narrative Competence in U.S. Career Advising Appointments: Multilingual Development Beyond Higher Education	5
Young Chinese Language Learners’ L2 Motivational Self System and Learning Achievement in Chinese Literacy Acquisition	5
Individual Language Policy: Bilingual Youth in Vietnam, by Nguyen, T. T. T.	4
Belonging, Conflict and Loss: Learning Ukrainian Online During COVID-19	4
Frame, Family Discourse, and Hui Muslim Identity	4
“Estás Luchando…Por Toda La Comunidad”: The Communal Organizing Literacies of Latine/x Immigrant Families	4
Bilingual Ways with Words : Children’s Identity Enactment and Negotiation in a Dual Language Immersion Class	4
Mixed-Heritage Individuals and Systemic Risk During Negotiation of Identity	4
Effect of Interaction and Alignment of Continuation Task in Chinese as a Second Language Writing	3
International Students’ Investment in Learning Cantonese, English, Mandarin, and Portuguese in Multilingual Macao	3
Translanguaging Interpretive Power in Formative Assessment Co-Design: A Catalyst for Science Teacher Agentive Shifts	3
Pedagogical Coaching as Identity Work: Cultivating and Negotiating ESL Teacher Narrative Identities	3
Constructing Identities in a Diverse School Setting: From Finnish Learners to Multilingual Experts	3
Student Perceptions of Bilingual Teaching Practices: Evidence from a Colombian University	3
Professional Identity Tensions in EFL Preservice Teachers: A Collective Case Study of Three International Students in South Korea	3

Collaborative Complaints, Alignment, and Identity Positioning During Teacher-Mentor Post-Observation Meetings	3
Contesting the “Standard Prosody Myth” Through a Multilingual Lens	3
Papeles, Sueños, y Futuros: The Altermundos Literacies of Parents of the Latine/x Diaspora	3
Motivating Second Language Learners with a Possible Selves Intervention Program	3
Equity Audits as Catalysts for Change: A Case Study on Racial Disparities in a University Spanish Language Program	3
“Disinvestment” in Learners’ Multilingual Identities: English Learning, Imagined Identities, and Neoliberal Subjecthood in Pakistan	3
Language Teacher Educator Identity, by Barkhuizen, G.Barkhuizen, G. (2021). Language Teacher Educator Identity. Cambridge University Press, 86 pp., $20.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781108812665	3
Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Language and Power, by Ching-Ching, L. & Vaz Bauler, C. (2023).Ching-Ching, L. & Vaz Bauler, C. (2023). Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Langu	3
Exploring the Role of Professional Learning Community in EFL Student-Teachers’ Imagined Identity Development	3
Exploring Chilean EFL Student Teachers’ Development of Teacher Identity Through Perezhivanie	3
Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion, and Investment, by Tajeddin, Z. & Yazan, B. (Eds.). (2024).	3
Whose Bilingualism Counts? Juxtaposing the Sanctioned and Subaltern Languaging of Two Dual Language Teachers	3
When Language and Literacy Touch Our Hearts: Implications for Refugee Education from a Biliteracy Stance	3