OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics Review is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English	102
On the influence of the first language on orthographic competences in German as a second language: a comparative analysis	75
The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian children’s early bilingual receptive vocabulary development	73
Languages ontologies in higher education: the world-making practices of language teachers	72
“When we use that kind of language… someone is going to jail”: relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters	66
‘Our family’ as discursive and biographical space: notes for a sociolinguistics of family	48
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics	41
A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university	40
Objects are not just a thing – (re)negotiating identity through using material objects within the Kurdish diaspora in the UK	36
Agentive engagement in intercultural communication by L2 English-speaking international faculty and their L2 English-speaking host colleagues	33
Integrating antiracist pedagogy in a Korean EFL classroom: a participatory approach to racial awareness and critical education	31
Moderation of teacher-student rapport in the link between smartphone addiction and foreign language burnout and its gender difference	29
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters	29
Investigating the relationships of writing behaviours to linguistic complexity and accuracy in independent and integrated writing task performance	27
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Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study	26
Making sense of trans-translating in blogger subtitling: a netnographic approach to translanguaging on a Chinese microblogging site	25
The perception of gradient acceptability among L1 Polish monolingual and bilingual speakers	24
Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China	23
The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography	22
“Coffee is no bitter than work”: linguistic landscapes in urban cafés in China	21
Interactional features in second language classroom discourse: variations across novice and experienced language teachers	20
Culture machines	20
The early the better? Or, the more the merrier? The relative effects of onset age and exposure hours on EFL learners’ implicit and explicit grammatical attainment	19
Oral corrective feedback on lexical errors: a systematic review	18

Disciplinary tribes and the discourse of mainstream media expert opinion articles: evidencing COVID-19 knowledge claims for a public audience	18
Cognitive, affective and social dimensions of migration	18
Understanding linguistic landscapes in a Chinese inland village: a chronotopic perspective	17
Ethics of care and participatory research relationships in a linguistic ethnographic study of wartime experience	17
Ideologies of teachers and students towards meso-level English-medium instruction policy and translanguaging in the STEM classroom at a Malaysian university	16
Automatic hate speech detection: a case study on online comments with a focus on self-victimisation and sentiment	16
A social justice research agenda for multilingual assessment in diverse educational contexts	16
A longitudinal study on lecture listening difficulties and self-regulated learning strategies across different proficiency levels in EMI higher education	16
Refusing gifts in Chinese: a linguistic analysis integrating interaction ritual, expressions and speech acts	15
Against epistemological theft and appropriation in applied linguistics research	15
Corrigendum	15
Paradoxes of the Canadian mosaic: “being, feeling and doing Canadian”	15
Africatown in Guangzhou as geosemiotic assemblage: connecting multilingualism, store signs, and chronotopes	15
Unequal translanguaging: the affordances and limitations of a translanguaging space for alleviating students’ foreign language anxiety in language classrooms	15
Contributions of interaction, growth language mindset, and L2 grit to student engagement in online EFL learning: a mixed-methods approach	15
Translanguaging as decoloniality-informed knowledge co-construction: a nexus analysis of an English-Medium-Instruction program in China	15
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From translanguaging to transknowledging: decolonizing knowledge production in applied linguistics	14
Can the subaltern speak in autoethnography?: knowledging through dialogic and retro/intro/pro-spective reflection to stand against epistemic violence	14
Developing a taxonomy of teacher emotion labor through metaphor: personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural angles	14
“I’m human” – multilingual investment of a young adult with a migration journey in Italy	14
Investigating translanguaging strategies and online self-presentation through internet slang on Douyin (Chinese TikTok)	14
“As a Muslim…”: on the importance of intercultural responsibility in transnational cultural exchanges	14
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“You have to repeat Chinese to mother!”: multilingual identity, emotions, and family language policy in transnational multilingual families	13
Effects of Group Dynamic Assessment on L2 Chinese learners’ literacy development: Learners’ responsiveness to interactive mediation	13
Multilingualism, translanguaging, and education in the Vaupés, Northwest Amazonia: dynamics of language use, and language loss	13
“Writing-to-learn”: the influence of task repetition on CSL writers’ attention to form	13
I ain’t your f*cking Model Minority! Indexical orders of ‘Asianness’, class, and heteronormative masculinity	13
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China	12
Study abroad experiences in homestay: where complexity, dynamicity, and individuality stay	12
To copy verbatim, paraphrase or summarize – listeners’ methods of discourse representation while recalling academic lectures	12
EAL and L1 English-speaking postgraduate students’ conceptions of English academic writing: a comparative metaphor analysis	12
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea: complex and agentive navigation of capital and language ideologies	12
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching	11
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South	11
Multimodal or multilingual? Native English teachers’ engagement with translanguaging in Hong Kong TESOL classrooms	10
ESL classroom interactions in a translanguaging space	10
Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models	10
Vocabulary and morphological awareness and their relationship to reading comprehension in Chinese literacy development: conceptual and methodological issues	10
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Genre effects on alignment and writing quality in the continuation task by Chinese EFL learners	10
Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class	9
“I am surprised they have allowed you in here to do this”: women’s prison writing as heterotopic space of narrative inclusion	9
Blaming, controlling, monitoring, and politicizing human-caused environmental disasters: anthropocentric discourses in framing the Ohio train derailment incident	9
Platformization, social media, and investing in unequal digital literacy practices	8
Delving into the role of teacher respect and support in predicting Chinese EFL learners’ willingness to attend classes: a sequential mixed-methods study	8
Attempts at including, mediating and creating ‘new’ knowledges: problematising appropriation in intercultural communication education and research	8

Translanguaging, agency, and transpositioning: unpacking Chinese business expatriates’ communication practices in Singapore	8
Visualising the language practices of lower secondary students: outlines for practice-based models of multilingualism	8
Syntactic variation and Pan-Hispanic awareness in teachers of Spanish as a second language	8
Motivation profiles of Chinese rural foreign language learners: link with learning strategy and achievement	8
Using the L1 to disambiguate L2 vocabulary: examining the effects on learning burden and decay with Chinese learners of English	8
Conceptualizing critical AI literacy in writing education: power dynamics in Chinese EAL students’ negotiations with GenAI	8
Narratives of the self in bilingual speakers: the neurophenomenal space	8
Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China: an everyday life perspective	8
The neoliberal coloniality of EMI in Hong Kong higher education: insights from online stancetaking	8