OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics Review is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Frontmatter	51
“If you don’t know English, it is like there is something wrong with you.” Students’ views of language(s) in a plurilingual setting	44
“When we use that kind of language… someone is going to jail”: relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters	44
Exploring AI for intercultural communication: open conversation	29
To copy verbatim, paraphrase or summarize – listeners’ methods of discourse representation while recalling academic lectures	29
Relationships between struggling EFL writers’ motivation, self-regulated learning (SRL), and writing competence in Hong Kong primary schools	25
Exploring Tibetan residents’ everyday language practices in Danba county, Southwest China: a case study	22
Individual versus pair work on L2 speech acts: production and cognitive processes	22
Genre effects on alignment and writing quality in the continuation task by Chinese EFL learners	21
Languages ontologies in higher education: the world-making practices of language teachers	21
The effects of task complexity on L2 English rapport-building language use and its relationship with paired speaking test task performance	21
Study abroad experiences in homestay: where complexity, dynamicity, and individuality stay	20
Learning semantic and thematic vocabulary clusters through embedded instruction: effects on very young English learners’ vocabulary acquisition and retention	19
On the move: social and linguistic acculturation in a small society	19
Tourism, commodification of Dongba script and perceptions of the Naxi minority in the linguistic landscape of Lijiang: a diachronic perspective	17
Greek Cypriot and immigrant students’ attitudes and perceptions of acculturation, ethnic identity and self-esteem in the Republic of Cyprus	16
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China	16
Frontmatter	16
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea: complex and agentive navigation of capital and language ideologies	16
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching	15
Perceived teacher feedback practices, student feedback motivation and engagement in English learning: a survey of Chinese university students	15
A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university	15
The myopic focus on decoloniality in applied linguistics and English language education: citations and stolen subjectivities	14
Epistemological theft and appropriation in qualitative inquiry in applied linguistics: lessons from Halaqa	14
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South	13

Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English	13
Objects are not just a thing – (re)negotiating identity through using material objects within the Kurdish diaspora in the UK	13
Frontmatter	12
Understanding micro-blogging users’ translanguaging in Chinese language play: a qualitative phenomenological approach	12
Pedagogical implications of translingual practices for content and language integrated learning	12
On the influence of the first language on orthographic competences in German as a second language: a comparative analysis	11
Frontmatter	11
Multimodal or multilingual? Native English teachers’ engagement with translanguaging in Hong Kong TESOL classrooms	11
Examining the role of writing proficiency in students’ feedback literacy development	11
Designing new Korean mothers, daughters-in-law, and wives: an analysis of Korean textbooks for newly arrived marriage migrants in South Korea	11
The application of social network analysis in applied linguistics research: a systematic review	10
Translanguaging in public and digital spaces: integrating telecollaboration to linguistic landscapes studies	10
The cognitive-conceptual, planning-organizational, affective-social and linguistic-discursive affordances of translanguaging	10
Creativity, criticality and translanguaging in assessment design: perspectives from Bangladeshi higher education	9
ESL classroom interactions in a translanguaging space	9
How ‘good-enough’ is second language comprehension? Morphological causative and suffixal passive constructions in Korean	9
Frontmatter	8
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics	8
“I never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion”: unveiling EFL teachers’ perspectives about emotions in assessment	8
Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models	8
Learner-internal and learner-external factors for boredom amongst Chinese university EFL students	8
A corpus-based study of LGBT-related news discourse in Thailand’s and international English-language newspapers	8
Culture machines	7
The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography	7
L2 repair fluency through the lenses of L1 repair fluency, cognitive fluency, and language anxiety	7
Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study	7
Moderation of teacher-student rapport in the link between smartphone addiction and foreign language burnout and its gender difference	7
Integrating antiracist pedagogy in a Korean EFL classroom: a participatory approach to racial awareness and critical education	7
Interactional features in second language classroom discourse: variations across novice and experienced language teachers	7
Frontmatter	7
The neoliberal coloniality of EMI in Hong Kong higher education: insights from online stancetaking	6
Sociocultural influence on engineering students’ collaborative design project: an Activity Theory perspective	6
Medical students’ attention in EFL class: roles of academic expectation stress and quality of sleep	6
A mixed-methods study of English vocabulary for medical purposes: medical students’ needs, difficulties, and strategies	6
Transl[iter]ating Dubai’s linguistic landscape: a bilingual translation perspective between English and Arabic against a backdrop of globalisation	6
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters	6
Frontmatter	6
Follow-up contributions for collaboratively accomplishing peer feedback in video-mediated L2 interactions	6
Foreign language teacher grit: scale development and examining the relations with emotions and burnout using relative weight analysis	6
Interplay between language and identity: Chinese returnee scholars in the internationalisation of higher education	6
Negotiating belonging in multilingual work environments: church professionals’ engagement with migrants	6
Transidiomatic favela: language resources and embodied resistance in Brazilian and South African peripheries	5
Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China: an everyday life perspective	5
Imagination and investment: unraveling academic identity in Chinese doctoral candidates’ publishing journeys in U.S. higher education	5
Deaf signing diversity and signed language translations	5
Communicating across educational boundaries: accommodation patterns in adolescents’ online interactions	5
The impact of divergent language policies on teachers’ language attitudes and proficiency in two multilingual education settings	5
From trilingualism to triliteracy: a trilingual child learning to write simultaneously in Korean, Farsi, and English	5
Investigating the relationships of writing behaviours to linguistic complexity and accuracy in independent and integrated writing task performance	5
Kingdom of heaven versus nirvana: a comparative study of conceptual metaphors for Christian and Buddhist ideals of life	5

Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China	5
First language loss effect on bilingual autobiographical memory: examining memory phenomenology	5
Emergent LOTE motivation? The L3 motivational dynamics of Japanese-major university students in China	4
ELF- or NES-oriented pedagogy: enhancing learners’ intercultural communicative competence using a dual teaching model	4
Agentive engagement in intercultural communication by L2 English-speaking international faculty and their L2 English-speaking host colleagues	4
Marked on the voice: the visibility experiences of Russian heritage migrants following the war against Ukraine	4
Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class	4
Confucius Institute and Confucius Classroom closures: trends, explanations and future directions	4
Exploring unobserved heterogeneity of speech fluency and its dynamic interactions with emotions	4
Exploring lexical bundles in low proficiency level L2 learners’ English writing: an ETS corpus study	4
Illuminating insights into subjectivity: Q as a methodology in applied linguistics research	4
L2 university students’ motivational self system in English writing: a sociocultural inquiry	4
The shape of a word: single word characteristics’ effect on novice L2 listening comprehension	4
Thinking through “in-betweenness”: a conversation with Suresh Canagarajah on decolonizing language education and research in South Asia	4