Current Issues in Language Planning

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Issues in Language Planning is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A panorama of linguistic landscape studies26
Language management and its impact: the policies and practices of Confucius Institutes Language management and its impact: the policies and practices of Confucius Institutes 26
Agency and structure in language policy: morphostasis and morphogenesis23
Beyond binary shifts: an ethnographic family language policy study of three generations in a Tibetan household22
Migration through a language planning lens: a typology of Welsh speakers’ migration decisions21
Lecturer identity as a nexus between EMI planning and practice: a case study at the University of Lleida (Spain)20
A study of the formation and enactment of collective agency in large-scale language surveys16
Sustainability and educational language policy in Arab higher education: findings from Q research15
English language policy distraction14
Disenfranchising the marginalized: the intersectionality of politics of distraction and English-medium education (EME) in Pakistani educational policy13
Innovative language education policies for literacy development in Indonesia’s 3T regions: addressing access and equity challenges12
Homescape, parental agency and family language policy: how Yi parents utilize semiotic resources to facilitate language maintenance12
Planning and teaching heritage languages in the translocal and digital space11
Shadow education, Bourdieu, & meritocracy: towards an understanding of Juku and inequality in Japan11
Evaluating the validity of census data for tracking speaker numbers: an investigation of Canada’s Indigenous languages10
Bulgarian language policy9
English-medium instruction (EMI) language policy and implementation in China’s higher education system: growth, challenges, opportunities, solutions, and future directions9
‘For the Dutch-speaking students, I will translate it': code-switching as discretionary transformation of EMI language policy8
GenAI-empowered teachers as active actors of change in developing (inter)national human capital in Singapore8
The Norwegian language policy in higher education: an evaluation of policy design8
Liminal language managers and advocates: the role of local governments in multilingual heatwave communication7
Constructing English as a second language in schools: comparative policy experiences and implementation challenges for Vietnam7
A comparative study of regional-language immersion education in Brittany and Wales7
Bilingual parenting in two Vietnamese families: returning to and leaving Vietnam7
Legal status and regulation of the German language in the Federal Republic of Germany7
Malaysia’s Dual Language Programme: a quest for equilibrium between globalization and national identity7
Repertoire on the move: insights on family language policy from two internal immigrant families in Northwestern China6
Language ideologies and practices in flux: the case of an Italian-Chinese transnational family6
The Anglophone problem: an analysis of official language education in Cameroon through Spolsky’s language policy framework and beyond6
School leaders as projective agents: online spaces for heritage languages during COVID-196
Intergenerational transmission and multilingual dynamics: exploring language policies in Chaoshan families through a contextual lens6
Family language policy of Serbian as a heritage language in the USA diaspora context: reversing language shift6
A multiple streams framework analysis of language testing in integration policy6
Introduction: the place of language surveys and censuses in language planning and policy6
Working in the gap: empowering local educators in Taiwan’s bilingual education policy6
Policy in the next turn: chronotope-mediated governance in family language policy6
Strategic management of Welsh language training on a macro and micro level5
Learners’ motivation caught between the interplay of policy and practice: a case study of an EMI medical program in China5
Synergy across multiple systems: a PPCT-based case study of heritage language maintenance in a Thai Chinese family5
Common sense and resistance: EMI policy and practice in Indonesian universities5
Two decades of research on language governance, policy, and management (2005–2025): a bibliometric mapping of global scholarship5
How censuses reflect language ideologies in European nation states: contrastive perspectives on Germany and Latvia5
Policy from below: STEM teachers’ response to EMI policy and policy-making in the mainstream schools in Kazakhstan4
Normativity in the embedded language policy of the Beijing subway’s spatial expression4
School actors navigating between implementor & arbiter – a qualitative study on the dynamics in multilingual schools’ language policy4
Epistemological and theoretical foundations in language policy and planning4
Correction4
From the margins to relationality: language policy and planning in island contexts4
Enumerating hierarchies: census data and the invisible Architecture of India’s Three Language Policy3
Language policy attraction of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) in regions outside Europe3
Echoes of empire: a critical bibliometric analysis of language-in-education policy research in postcolonial contexts3
Correction3
Carrots and sticks, sugar and whips: the effects of policy on the long-term language acquisition of non-EU citizens in the Czech Republic3
Distraction in Australian language education policy: a call to re-centre language rights3
‘We are Indigenous people, not primitive people.’: the role of popular music in Indigenous language revitalization in Taiwan3
The securitisation of the other through language planning: the Israeli case3
Testing the waters: a nationwide survey of signage language policies in Australia3
Reorienting Kokugo: integrating PISA reading literacy and cultural literacy in Japan’s 2017–2022 language education reform3
Language policy in Lithuania: current issues in the legal framework3
The role played by translation in the current language revitalisation process for Jèrriais and Guernésiais3
Linguistic Landscapes (A Sociolinguistic Approach)3
Educators’ agency in implementing English-medium-instruction in Chinese higher education: a cultural-historical perspective3
Medium of education and the politics of distraction in school education in Bangladesh3
Regulating gender-fair language in Brazil: argumentative repertoires in federal legislative proposals (2000–2024)2
Language ideologies, policies, and media discourse in census questionnaires: a historical comparative analysis of four multilingual societies2
Contrasting a university's language policy with its linguistic landscape: a Norwegian case study2
‘So, it feels like policy only exists on paper, not in practice:’ repositioning English language policy in Thailand’s conflict-affected and marginalized deep south2
Language policy in strategic documents: the discourse analysis of language policy in education in Georgia2
Enhancing digital and multimodal literacy in Indonesia's language education: a strategic policy framework for twenty-first-century engagement2
Do you speak English or my language? An LMT approach to language requirements in EU nations’ visa applications2
Correction2
Reemphasizing ethnoraciality in the equation: an ecolinguistic study on Indonesia’s language policy2
‘It’s the Chinese that I don’t understand’: non-transmission of dialects in Franco-Chinese families’ language planning in France2
‘I just hope he will learn well’: a qualitative study of family language policy among Chinese migrant workers2
Linguistic philanthropy2
Reimagining raciolinguistic ideologies through an analysis of localized language-in-education policies in Turkey and Korea2
Whose English counts? Linguistic justice, gatekeeping, and AI-mediated language policy in academic publishing2
One language and two ideologies: a case study of Arabic language education in Ningxia, China in the context of the BRI2
Guest editor’s preface: special issue of Eastern and Northern European language policies and strategies: de jure and de facto approaches2
From foundational frameworks to future frontiers: critical perspectives of translation competence assessment models and emerging challenges2
English as a subtle technology of distraction in postcolonial contexts: undoing linguistic colonialism by linguistic coloniality2
Urban regional divides in Taiwanese teachers’ interpretation and implementation of Bilingual 2030 policy2
Constructing excellence in multilingual education: a corpus-assisted critical discourse study of Scotland’s language education policy2
The politics of distraction in English-medium higher education across three global settings: a collaborative autoethnography2
International language certificates in Vietnam’s high school graduation and university admissions: a policy analysis2
Language planning issues of Hungarian legal language and the clear writing programme as a possible solution1
‘Maximising the benefits of marginalisation’: the endogenous policy for Languages Other Than English education in Chinese higher education1
Language poverty alleviation in the Chinese mainland: a language policy and planning perspective1
Strategic horizons of Arabic: a comparative and geopolitical analysis of Saudi Arabia’s role in global language promotion1
Distractive language education policies and the endangerment of Indigenous languages in Bangladesh1
Language policy for multilingualism in Greek public administration: fact or fiction?1
Minority parents and medium of instruction policies in Kazakhstan: insights into language ideologies, family language planning and management1
Micro language planning in Mandarin-dominated Chinese language education: voices from dialect-background heritage learners in New Zealand1
Language education for sustainable development in the Middle East: a critical integrative review of multilingual justice, digital inclusion, and sociocultural resilience1
Nation-state building through the lens of language policy: the development of Chinese language education in Thailand1
The situatedness of hybrid practitioner agency in the internationalisation of Japanese higher education and the necessity of transversal policy enactors1
Greek heritage language teachers as emergency grassroots policy makers: reconciling learner centred responses with textbook heavy pedagogies during COVID-19 lockdown1
What corpus language planning is in place for public television outlets in the Catalan communicative space?1
Grassroots policymaking in practice: including heritage languages in the critical connections project through agency, activism, and alternative voices1
Multilingualism in the governance of a ‘monolingual’ country: micro language planning, dispute settlement and social governance in China1
Cardiff's Cymraeg: the status and influence of Welsh in an urban setting1
Instructors’ navigation and appropriation of gender-inclusive Spanish at a U.S. University1
Language policies and legislation in China and Russia: normative justifications from a historical perspective1
Correction1
Radical cyberfeminists as language planners: South Korea’s Womad1
‘Parallax language planning and policy’ as a theory for navigating (con)(diver)gent interpretations of English Medium Instruction (EMI)1
We have become protectors of English : revisiting policies of publishing in English in non-Anglophone academia1
Are ‘languages’ essentialized in language policy and planning in Brunei Darussalam and across ASEAN?1
Language ideologies in new media: grassroots resistance to a multilingual language policy1
Institutional language planning in healthcare: elderly patients, linguistic landscapes, and spatial-experiential justice in China1
Micro level language planning, agency, and ICT in community language schools: before, during and after the pandemic1
English-Medium Instruction Practices in Higher Education: International Perspectives English-Medium Instruction Practices in Higher Education: International Perspectives 1
Language policy and planning for heritage language maintenance: a scoping review1
Adapting a European standard to assess English foreign language pre-service teachers’ language proficiency in Vietnam: perspectives from universities and pre-service teachers1
On foreign language education planning1
One policy, two implementations: probing policy specifications in two EMI courses in a Macao university1
Mothers, grandmothers, and English at home: family language policy in urban India’s Hindi-dominant households1
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