OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Linguistics Review is 7. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
On the influence of the first language on orthographic competences in German as a second language: a comparative analysis	81
Languages ontologies in higher education: the world-making practices of language teachers	65
The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian children’s early bilingual receptive vocabulary development	53
Written corrective feedback, learner-internal cognitive processes, and the acquisition of regular past tense by Chinese L2 learners of English	50
“When we use that kind of language… someone is going to jail”: relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters	50
A multimodal analysis of the online translanguaging practices of international students studying Chinese in a Chinese university	44
A typology of secondary research in Applied Linguistics	35
Objects are not just a thing – (re)negotiating identity through using material objects within the Kurdish diaspora in the UK	34
Agentive engagement in intercultural communication by L2 English-speaking international faculty and their L2 English-speaking host colleagues	30
Mutual intelligibility of a Kurmanji and a Zazaki dialect spoken in the province of Elazığ, Turkey	30
Integrating antiracist pedagogy in a Korean EFL classroom: a participatory approach to racial awareness and critical education	29
Communicating across educational boundaries: accommodation patterns in adolescents’ online interactions	27
A think-aloud method of investigating translanguaging strategies in learning Chinese characters	27
ELF- or NES-oriented pedagogy: enhancing learners’ intercultural communicative competence using a dual teaching model	27
Interactional features in second language classroom discourse: variations across novice and experienced language teachers	24
Investigating the relationships of writing behaviours to linguistic complexity and accuracy in independent and integrated writing task performance	24
Frontmatter	23
Making sense of trans-translating in blogger subtitling: a netnographic approach to translanguaging on a Chinese microblogging site	23
Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study	22
“Coffee is no bitter than work”: linguistic landscapes in urban cafés in China	21
The perception of gradient acceptability among L1 Polish monolingual and bilingual speakers	21
Culture machines	20
The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography	20
Moderation of teacher-student rapport in the link between smartphone addiction and foreign language burnout and its gender difference	20
Translanguaging pedagogies in developing morphological awareness: the case of Japanese students learning Chinese in China	18

Disciplinary tribes and the discourse of mainstream media expert opinion articles: evidencing COVID-19 knowledge claims for a public audience	18
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	18
Cognitive, affective and social dimensions of migration	17
A longitudinal study on lecture listening difficulties and self-regulated learning strategies across different proficiency levels in EMI higher education	16
Ideologies of teachers and students towards meso-level English-medium instruction policy and translanguaging in the STEM classroom at a Malaysian university	16
Oral corrective feedback on lexical errors: a systematic review	16
Paradoxes of the Canadian mosaic: “being, feeling and doing Canadian”	15
Translanguaging as decoloniality-informed knowledge co-construction: a nexus analysis of an English-Medium-Instruction program in China	15
Refusing gifts in Chinese: a linguistic analysis integrating interaction ritual, expressions and speech acts	15
Contributions of interaction, growth language mindset, and L2 grit to student engagement in online EFL learning: a mixed-methods approach	15
Against epistemological theft and appropriation in applied linguistics research	14
Africatown in Guangzhou as geosemiotic assemblage: connecting multilingualism, store signs, and chronotopes	14
Frontmatter	14
Investigating translanguaging strategies and online self-presentation through internet slang on Douyin (Chinese TikTok)	13
Corrigendum	13
Developing a taxonomy of teacher emotion labor through metaphor: personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural angles	13
Frontmatter	13
Unequal translanguaging: the affordances and limitations of a translanguaging space for alleviating students’ foreign language anxiety in language classrooms	12
“I’m human” – multilingual investment of a young adult with a migration journey in Italy	12
“As a Muslim…”: on the importance of intercultural responsibility in transnational cultural exchanges	12
From translanguaging to transknowledging: decolonizing knowledge production in applied linguistics	11
I ain’t your f*cking Model Minority! Indexical orders of ‘Asianness’, class, and heteronormative masculinity	11
Multilingualism, translanguaging, and education in the Vaupés, Northwest Amazonia: dynamics of language use, and language loss	11
Study abroad experiences in homestay: where complexity, dynamicity, and individuality stay	11
Can the subaltern speak in autoethnography?: knowledging through dialogic and retro/intro/pro-spective reflection to stand against epistemic violence	11
“Writing-to-learn”: the influence of task repetition on CSL writers’ attention to form	11
Frontmatter	11
Genre effects on alignment and writing quality in the continuation task by Chinese EFL learners	11
Frontmatter	11
Effects of Group Dynamic Assessment on L2 Chinese learners’ literacy development: Learners’ responsiveness to interactive mediation	11
To copy verbatim, paraphrase or summarize – listeners’ methods of discourse representation while recalling academic lectures	11
“You have to repeat Chinese to mother!”: multilingual identity, emotions, and family language policy in transnational multilingual families	11
Translanguaging as sociolinguistic infrastructuring to foster epistemic justice in international Chinese-medium-instruction degree programs in China	10
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea: complex and agentive navigation of capital and language ideologies	10
Reflection and reform of applied linguistics from the Global South: power and inequality in English users from the Global South	10
ESL classroom interactions in a translanguaging space	10
“I am surprised they have allowed you in here to do this”: women’s prison writing as heterotopic space of narrative inclusion	9
Translanguaging outside the centre: perspectives from Chinese language teaching	9
Frontmatter	9
Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models	9
Multimodal or multilingual? Native English teachers’ engagement with translanguaging in Hong Kong TESOL classrooms	9
Blaming, controlling, monitoring, and politicizing human-caused environmental disasters: anthropocentric discourses in framing the Ohio train derailment incident	8
Using the L1 to disambiguate L2 vocabulary: examining the effects on learning burden and decay with Chinese learners of English	8
Motivation profiles of Chinese rural foreign language learners: link with learning strategy and achievement	8
Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class	8
Unpacking fluid linguistic landscape in a community coffeehouse in Hangzhou, East China: an everyday life perspective	8
Platformization, social media, and investing in unequal digital literacy practices	8
The neoliberal coloniality of EMI in Hong Kong higher education: insights from online stancetaking	8
Narratives of the self in bilingual speakers: the neurophenomenal space	7
Transnational media and English spread in the Expanding Circle: Hollywood’s predominance, language accommodation, and English as an additional language in cinema, television, and video on demand	7

Tracking telecollaborative tasks through design, feedback, implementation, and reflection processes in pre-service language teacher education	7
A systematic review of meta-analyses in second language research: current practices, issues, and recommendations	7
Visualising the language practices of lower secondary students: outlines for practice-based models of multilingualism	7
The role of speaker categorization in South Korean attitudes toward North Korean accents	7
Attempts at including, mediating and creating ‘new’ knowledges: problematising appropriation in intercultural communication education and research	7
Syntactic variation and Pan-Hispanic awareness in teachers of Spanish as a second language	7
Assessment and creativity through a translingual lens: transdisciplinary insights	7