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Researcher · Mount St. Joseph University · United States

Richard L. Sparks

Richard L. Sparks publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Second Language Learning and Teaching and Reading and Literacy Development.

ORCID 0000-0001-8856-9880 OpenAlex
World rank
#52,997
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#24,249
of 358,040
Works
52
Citations
223
Citations per work
4.3

What does Richard L. Sparks research?

Language and Linguistics: 29.3%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 24.4%Literature and Literary Theory: 17.1%Education: 9.8%other fields: 19.4%29%top field
Language and Linguistics29.3%Developmental and Educational Psychology24.4%Literature and Literary Theory17.1%Education9.8%other fields19.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Language and Linguistics29% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology24% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory17% of their works
  4. 4Education10% of their works
  5. 5Safety Research5% of their works
  6. 6Linguistics and Language5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard L. Sparks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Teaching, Corrective Feedback, Second Language Acquisition, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Language Development, CLIL and Content and Language Integrated Learning.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Teaching132 topics
  2. Corrective Feedback111 topic
  3. Second Language Acquisition111 topic
  4. Language Policy92 topics
  5. Multilingualism92 topics
  6. Language Development82 topics
  7. CLIL71 topic
  8. Content and Language Integrated Learning71 topic
  9. Reading Comprehension72 topics
  10. Dyslexia51 topic
  11. Reading Acquisition51 topic
  12. Bilingualism31 topic
  13. Speech and Language Disorder31 topic
  14. Authentic Learning21 topic
  15. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy21 topic
  16. Online Learning21 topic
  17. Second Language Learning21 topic
  18. Self-Determination21 topic
  19. Translanguaging21 topic
  20. Universal Design for Learning21 topic
  21. Vocabulary Acquisition21 topic

Where does Richard L. Sparks work?

Richard L. Sparks's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount St. Joseph University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard L. Sparks have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 223 citations for Richard L. Sparks, ranking #52,997 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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