Most cited papers in Multilingual Education and Policy
What are the most cited papers in Multilingual Education and Policy?
The most cited paper in Multilingual Education and Policy is "Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms" (Michael Paffard, Shirley Brice Heath, 1984), with 4,960 citations. Next come "Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach" (3,778) and "Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy" (3,282).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 888 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms Michael Paffard, Shirley Brice Heath · British Journal of Educational Studies | Jun 1984 | 4,960 |
| 2 | Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall · Discourse Studies | Oct 2005 | 3,778 |
| 3 | Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Django Paris · Educational Researcher | 29 Mar 2012 | 3,282 |
| 4 | Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children James Cummins · Review of Educational Research | Jun 1979 | 3,166 |
| 5 | Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience1 William Labov, Joshua Waletzky · Journal of Narrative and Life History | 1997 | 2,908 |
| 6 | Social Identity, Investment, and Language Learning Bonny Norton Peirce · TESOL Quarterly | 1995 | 2,880 |
| 7 | Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education Nelson Flores, Jonathan Rosa · Harvard Educational Review | Jun 2015 | 2,780 |
| 8 | Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language Li Wei · Applied Linguistics | 6 Oct 2017 | 2,752 |
| 9 | Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language Jacqueline S. Johnson, Elissa L. Newport · Cognitive Psychology | 1989 | 2,743 |
| 10 | Linguistic Landscape and Ethnolinguistic Vitality Rodrigue Landry, Richard Y. Bourhis · Journal of Language and Social Psychology | Mar 1997 | 2,219 |
| 11 | Translanguaging in the Bilingual Classroom: A Pedagogy for Learning and Teaching? Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge · Modern Language Journal | 3 Feb 2010 | 2,195 |
| 12 | Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages: A perspective from linguistics Ricardo Otheguy, Ofelia Garcı́a, Wallis Reid · Applied Linguistics Review | 19 Aug 2015 | 2,119 |
| 13 | CULTURAL THOUGHT PATTERNS IN INTER‐CULTURAL EDUCATION Robert B. Kaplan · Language Learning | 1966 | 2,076 |
| 14 | Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation Penelope Eckert · Annual Review of Anthropology | 2 Jul 2012 | 2,020 |
| 15 | Language and Agency Laura M. Ahearn · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2001 | 2,001 |
| 16 | Orientations in Language Planning Richard Ruíz · NABE Journal | 1984 | 1,978 |
| 17 | A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press Paul Morgan Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Majid KhosraviNik et al. · Discourse & Society | May 2008 | 1,931 |
| 18 | Second language research : Methodology and Design Alison Mackey, Susan M. Gass | 2005 | 1,921 |
| 19 | Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure J. THOMAS · Applied Linguistics | Feb 1983 | 1,910 |
| 20 | Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain Li Wei · Journal of Pragmatics | 23 Sep 2010 | 1,848 |
| 21 | Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change Yoon-kyung Yim, Bonny Norton · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 1,824 |
| 22 | L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model Bonnie D. Schwartz, Rex A. Sprouse · Second language Research | 1996 | 1,746 |
| 23 | Bilingualism With and Without Diglossia; Diglossia With and Without Bilingualism Joshua A. Fishman · Journal of Social Issues | Apr 1967 | 1,729 |
| 24 | On Discourse, Communication, and (Some) Fundamental Concepts in SLA Research Alan Firth, Johannes Wagner · Modern Language Journal | Sep 1997 | 1,724 |
| 25 | The two faces of Janus? Anxiety and enjoyment in the foreign language classroom Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Peter D. MacIntyre · Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching | 2014 | 1,710 |
| 26 | Working with discourse: meaning beyond the clause Mauro Tadeu Baptista Sobhie · DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada | Jun 2004 | 1,701 |
| 27 | Problems of Reliability and Validity in Ethnographic Research Margaret Diane LeCompte, JUDITH PREISSLE GOETZ · Review of Educational Research | Mar 1982 | 1,682 |
| 28 | Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space Kris D. Gutiérrez · Reading Research Quarterly | 2 Apr 2008 | 1,680 |
| 29 | Turn organization: one intersection of grammar and interaction Emanuel A. Schegloff · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 12 Dec 1996 | 1,612 |
| 30 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Zoltán Dörnyei, Dale T. Griffee · TESOL Journal | Mar 2010 | 1,606 |
| 31 | Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective Jonathan Rosa, Nelson Flores · Language in Society | 11 Sep 2017 | 1,601 |
| 32 | Going beyond the Native Speaker in Language Teaching Vivian Cook · TESOL Quarterly | 1999 | 1,582 |
| 33 | Foreign Accent, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility in the Speech of Second Language Learners Murray J. Munro, Tracey M. Derwing · Language Learning | Mar 1995 | 1,548 |
| 34 | Discourse: A Critical Introduction. Jan Blommaert · Linguistische Berichte (LB) | Apr 2008 | 1,535 |
| 35 | What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school Shirley Brice Heath · Language in Society | Apr 1982 | 1,531 |
| 36 | Language, Identity, and the Ownership of English Bonny Norton · TESOL Quarterly | 1997 | 1,487 |
| 37 | Codemeshing in Academic Writing: Identifying Teachable Strategies of Translanguaging Suresh Canagarajah · Modern Language Journal | Sep 2011 | 1,468 |
| 38 | The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change William Labov · Language Variation and Change | Jul 1990 | 1,467 |
| 39 | THE ROBUSTNESS OF CRITICAL PERIOD EFFECTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION ROBERT M. DEKEYSER · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Dec 2000 | 1,436 |
| 40 | Understanding English as a Lingua Franca Cem Alptekin · ELT Journal | 13 Mar 2012 | 1,427 |
| 41 | An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics Aleksandar Čarapić · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Apr 2006 | 1,389 |
| 42 | Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations Suresh Canagarajah | 12 Dec 2012 | 1,385 |
| 43 | Language Ideology Kathryn A. Woolard, Bambi B. Schieffelin · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1994 | 1,372 |
| 44 | Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. Diane L. August, Timothy Shanahan | 2006 | 1,331 |
| 45 | Working toward third space in content area literacy: An examination of everyday funds of knowledge and Discourse Elizabeth Birr Moje, Kathryn Ciechanowski, Katherine J. Kramer et al. · Reading Research Quarterly | 3 Jan 2004 | 1,320 |
| 46 | A Transdisciplinary Framework for SLA in a Multilingual World The Douglas Fir Group · Modern Language Journal | 2016 | 1,308 |
| 47 | Language and Culture Claire Kramsch · AILA Review | 31 Dec 2014 | 1,305 |
| 48 | Theorizing Language Teacher Identity: Three Perspectives and Beyond Manka Varghese, Brian D.G. Morgan, Bill J. Johnston et al. · Journal of Language Identity & Education | 2005 | 1,299 |
| 49 | Rethinking diversity: Hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space Kris D. Gutiérrez, Patricia Baquedano‐López, Carlos Tejeda · Mind Culture and Activity | 1999 | 1,284 |
| 50 | When learning a second language means losing the first Lily Wong Fillmore · Early Childhood Research Quarterly | Sep 1991 | 1,274 |
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