OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
SisiXhosa osikhathalele ngantoni na esi ude usindwe ziincwadi ezingaka? Why do you care about isiXhosa so much that you are overwhelmed by so many books?	10
Translanguaging during collaborative learning: A ‘transcollab’ model of teaching	8
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria	7
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors	7
Sociocultural narratives and the anthropomorphic power of agency in a semiotic landscape	5
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative	4
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech	4
Translanguaging strategies in multimodality and audiovisual translation	4
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software	3
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace	3
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?	3
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university	3
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang	2
Linguistic formation patterns of anglicised traditional Yorùbá anthroponyms	2
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia	2
Language regulation in post-independence Zimbabwe (1981–2015) and Kalanga linguistic citizenship	2
Do additional, visual elements in recorded lectures influence the processing of subtitles?	2
Developing and validating a visual questionnaire for the study of impersonalisation strategies: A design thinking approach	2
Verb stem influence on object marking in Chiyao1	2
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English	2
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension	2
Teachers’ language ideologies, conflicting language policy and practices in Zimbabwean education system	2
The extraction of terminology list using ParaConc for creating a quadrilingual dictionary	2
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences	2
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria	1

Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines	1
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices	1
Towards modelled testing of productive knowledge of collocations	1
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press	1
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach	1
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication	1
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice	1
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi	1
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho	1
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English	1
Methodological differences matter: Identification thresholds and corpus composition in lexical bundle research	1
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa	1
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages	1
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective	1
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya	1
User studies on the Sepedi Copulative Decision Tree	1
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause	1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction	1
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances	1
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts	1