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Papers

(The median citation count of Language Policy is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines	32
Is English the world’s lingua franca or the language of the enemy? Choice and age factors in foreign language policymaking in Iran	15
Family language policy and parental language ideologies among Chinese transnational families in multilingual Luxembourg	14
El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed: Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions	14
Examining the implementation of language education policies in mainstream primary schools	12
Eduardo D. Faingold: Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, and Greenland	10
Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis and Humphrey Tonkin (eds): Language and sustainable development	10
Juan A. Freire, Cristina Alfaro, and Ester J. De Jong (eds): The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education	10
English-medium teachers as policymakers through critical translingual literacy instruction	9
“Maybe it was a shield, you know”: Exploring family language policy through the lens of perezhivanie	9
Language advocacy in times of securitization and neoliberalization: The Network LanguageRights	9
Maria Coady: The Coral Way Bilingual Program, Multilingual Matters, Bristol and Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 2019, 1–190 pp, Kindle $25.00, ISBN 978-17-889-2456-6	8
Jeffrey L. Kallen: Linguistic Landscapes: A Sociolinguistic Approach	8
The expansive language access framework: an integrated approach to addressing oppression in language education	8
Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading	7
Correction to: A Black mother’s counterstory to the Brown–White binary in dual language education: toward disrupting dual language as White property	7
Black lives matter versus Castañeda v. Pickard: a utopian vision of who counts as bilingual (and who matters in bilingual education)	6
Linguistic reconciliation in contexts of conflict: Tamil language learning in Sri Lanka	6
Digital communication as part of family language policy: the interplay of multimodality and language status in a Finnish context	6
Gazzola, M., Grin, F., Cardinal, L. and Heugh, K. (eds.) (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138328198	6
Ingrid Piller, Donna Butorac, Emily Farrell, Loy Lising, Shiva Motaghi-Tabari and Vera Williams Tetteh: Life in a New Language	5
Navigating competing policy demands: Dual service provision for English learners with disabilities in middle school	5
Ari Sherris and Susan D. Penfield (eds): Rejecting the marginalized status of minority languages: educational projects pushing back against language endangerment	5
Laurie Olsen: A Legacy of Courage and Activism: Stories from the Movement for Educational Access and Equity for English Learners in California. Californians Together, Long Beach, California, 2021, 241	5
Beyond Castañeda and the “language barrier” ideology: young children and their right to bilingualism	4

Amid signs of change: language policy, ideology and power in the linguistic landscape of urban Rwanda	4
Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz: A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies	4
The impact of language education policies on Irish sign language in Irish deaf education	4
Bilingual education rejected: English-only despite Lau	4
Critical language policy: Investigating ESL department chair’s implementation of AB 705	4
François Grin, László Marácz, and Nike K. Pokorn (eds): Advances in interdisciplinary language policy	3
Correction to: The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study	3
Abhimanyu Sharma: Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy (Evidence from Comparative Cases)	3
“What is language for us?”: Community-based Anishinaabemowin language planning using TEK-nology	3
Picturing dual language and gentrification: an analysis of visual media and their connection to language policy	3
Hywel Coleman: The Condition of English in Multilingual Afghanistan	3
Bruna Di Sabato and Bronwen Hughes: Multilingual Perspectives from Europe and Beyond on Language Policy and Practice	3
‘I don’t think that’s really their wheelhouse’: governing language policy interpretation in teacher education	3
Language and translation policies in China’s multilingual governance: A study of the early and mid-Qing dynasty	2
Williams, C. H. (2023). Language policy and the new speaker challenge: hiding in plain sight. Cambridge University Press	2
M. Beatriz Arias and Molly Fee (eds): Profiles of Dual Language Education in the 21st Century	2
Alice Leal and Seán Ó Riain: Language Policy and the Future of Europe: A Conversation with Seán Ó Riain	2
Correction to: Bilingual teacher educators as language policy agents: a critical language policy perspective of the Castañeda v. Pickard case and the bilingual teacher shortage	2
Perceptions and attitudes of Qatar University students regarding the utility of arabic and english in communication and education in Qatar	2
Advocacy strategies for a new multilingual educational policy in Israel	2
Language policy from textuality to (re)entextualization: expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses	2
After Castañeda: a glotopolítica perspective and educational dignity paradigm to educate racialized bilinguals	2
Family language policy and language shift in postcolonial Mozambique: a critical, multi-layered approach	2
Classroom implementation by Masbatenyo public elementary teachers of the mother tongue-based multilingual education policy: a case study	2
Reflections on Lau: A historical perspective	2
Clamping down on the Castañeda standard: turning the screws for educational equity	2
Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family	2
Is language a ‘right’ in U.S. education?: unpacking Castañeda’s reach across federal, state, and district lines	1
Michal Tannenbaum and Elana Shohamy: Developing multilingual education policies: theory, research, practice	1
Reconstructing over 20 years of language practice, management and ideology at a multinational corporation in Brussels: A scaled socio-historical approach to language policy	1
Rebecca Blum-Martinez and Mary Jean Habermann López: The Shoulders We Stand on: A History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico	1
Pride, prejudice and pragmatism: family language policies in the UK	1
Thomas Ricento (ed.): Language Politics and Policies: Perspectives from Canada and the United States. Cambridge University Press. 2019, xxxi + 318 pp, Hb £95.00 ISBN 978-11-084-2913-9	1
India’s language policy for deaf and hard-of-hearing people	1
“I’ve become what I’m trying to fight…”: classroom language policy navigation and embodied critical consciousness	1
Björklund, S. & Björklund, M. (eds.) (2023). Policy and practice for Multilingual Educational Settings. Comparisons across contexts. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. Multilingual matters	1
Editorial introduction: revisiting and (re)imagining Castañeda v. Pickard through critical lenses	1
Interpreting as educational policy: disentangling discourses of language access in schools	1
Kashif Raza, Christine Coombe, & Dudley Reynolds (eds.): policy development in TESOL and multilingualism—past, present and the way forward	0
Language revitalization through a social movement lens: grassroots Galician language activism	0
Subhan Zein and Maria R. Coady (eds): early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective	0
Ali Jalalian Daghigh, Jariah Mohd Jan, & Sheena Kaur (eds.): neoliberalism of English language policy in the Global South	0
Bilingual teacher educators as language policy agents: A critical language policy perspective of the Castañeda v. Pickard case and the bilingual teacher shortage	0
Principal agency 50 years after the Lau decision: Building and sustaining bilingual education programs for Asian languages	0
Mekonnen Alemu Gebre Yohannes: Language Policy in Ethiopia: The Interplay between Policy and Practice in Tigray Regional State	0
Becoming bilingual (or not): A look into the public’s intersecting orientations towards Bilingual 2030 in multilingual Taiwan	0
In Memorium: A tribute to Bernard Spolsky	0
Lisa M. Dorner, Deborah Palmer, Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, Dan Heiman, and Emily R. Crawford (eds): Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education: Case Studies on Policy and Practice	0
Nelson Flores, Amelia Tseng & Nicholas Subtirelu (eds): Bilingualism for All? Raciolinguistic Perspectives on Dual Language Education in the United States	0
Anglonormativity in Norwegian language education policy and in the educational trajectories of immigrant adolescents	0

Has language as resource been the basis for mother-tongue instruction in Sweden? On the evolution of policy orientations towards a uniquely enduring bilingual policy	0
In memoriam: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 1940–2023	0
Family language policy in Chinese d/Deaf-parented families with hearing children: the interplay of multi-dimensional factors	0
A genealogical inquiry into raciolinguistic ideology and language policy among Spanish Franciscan missionaries in Alta California	0
Four decades after Castañeda: a critical analysis of Bilingual/Dual Language Education in Colorado	0
The evolution of language ideological debates about English and French in a multilingual humanitarian organisation	0
Assessing litigant’s language proficiency: the case of the Bafoussam Court of First Instance	0
Subhan Zein: Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia	0
Thomas Ricento: Refugees in Canada. On the loss of Social and Cultural Capital Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, xiii + 300 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-76452-4 ISBN 978-3-030-76453-1 (ebook)	0
Jie Zhang: Language Policy and Planning for the Modern Olympic Games	0
Correction: English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies	0
Katherine S. Flowers: Making English Official: Writing and Resisting Local Language Policies	0
The (il)legitimacy of Arizona’s English-only language policies: an analysis of legitimacy in language policy discourse	0
The gentrification of two-way dual language programs: a commentary	0
Mid-level leaders as key policy interpreters: state and local leaders’ perspectives on leveraging Castañeda to expand equity for English learner students	0
"Verde is Not the Word for Green in Spanish": The Problematic Arrogance of Monolingual, Powerful Parents	0
Ten years later: What has become of FLP?	0
A raciolinguistic perspective on career readiness standards in career and technical education: Professionalism and communication skills as white linguistic practices	0
Re-orienting to language users: humanizing orientations in language planning as praxis	0
Jim McKinley and Nicola Galloway: English-medium instruction practices in higher education: international perspectives	0
Bernadette O’Rourke and John Walsh: New Speakers of Irish in a Global Context Routledge, New York and London, 2020, xi-212 pp, Hb £120 ISBN 978-11-382-4338-5	0
Correction: Commentary: Revisiting Castañeda as law, policy, ideology, and critical educational resource	0
Introduction title of special issue: learning from Lau v. Nichols (1974): 50 years later	0
Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin (eds): Review of the Seal of Biliteracy: Case Studies and Considerations for Policy Implementation	0
Ian Cushing: Standards, Stigma, Surveillance: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and England’s Schools	0
Choosing is losing: language policy and language choice acts at the asylum law firm	0
Peter A. Kraus and François Grin (eds): The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance	0
The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study	0
#workfromhome: how multi-level marketers enact and subvert federal language policy for profit	0
Language test activism	0
Editorial introduction: Advocacy issues and research in language policy	0
Implicit language policy in ethnic minority migrant community in urban China: a study of the linguistic landscape of “Little Lhasa”	0
Educational linguicism: linguistic discrimination against minority students in Vietnamese mainstream schools	0
Trish Morita-Mullaney: Lau v. Nichols and Chinese American Language Rights: The Sunrise and Sunset of Bilingual Education	0
Bill 7633 on the restriction of the use of Russian text sources in Ukrainian research and education: analysing language policy in times of war	0
Conceptualisation of family and language practice in family language policy research on migrants: a systematic review	0
Aspirational family language policy	0
Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway	0
Commentary: Revisiting Castañeda as law, policy, ideology, and critical educational resource	0
“Because guess what? I don’t even want to speak English”: English as an obstacle for the development of multilingualism at a South African institution	0
Motivations for service provision spectrum: needs assessments and language policy approaches	0
English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies	0
Jef Verschueren: Complicity in Discourse and Practice	0
Individual language advocates and managers	0
Ritu Jain (ed.): Multilingual Singapore: language policies and linguistic realities, Routledge, London and New York, 2021, 240 pp, Pb, $44.95, ISBN 978-10-320-0043-5	0
Policy formation for adult migrant language education in England: national neglect and its implications	0
Michael Kretzer & Russell Kaschula (eds): Handbook of language policy and education in countries of the Southern African development community (SADC)	0
Editorial introduction: a historical overview of the expanding critique(s) of the gentrification of dual language bilingual education	0
Advocating an empirically-founded university admission policy	0
Piotr Romanowski: Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora: A Focus on Australia	0
Attitudes of Dalit students and teachers towards English: a language of Dalit emancipation?	0
David Cassels Johnson, and Eric J. Johnson: The Language Gap: Normalizing Deficit Ideologies	0
Lau v. Nichols revisited: unveiling dual language program disparities in California for Asian students and marginalized communities	0
The Chinese Freedom Schools: Historicizing and intersecting Lau with Brown	0
István Csernicskó: Ukrainian multilingualism: Two sides of a coin. Méry ratio / Foundation for minorities – pro Minoritate, 2022, 1–156 pp., Hb, 3060 ft ISBN 978-615-6284-21-1	0
The (un)making and (re)making of Guangzhou’s ‘Little Africa’: Xiaobei’s linguistic and semiotic landscape explored	0
Officiality and strategic ambiguity in language policy: exploring migrant experiences in Andorra and Luxembourg	0
Correction: Williams, C. H. (2023). Language policy and the new speaker challenge: hiding in plain sight. Cambridge University Press	0
Fornasiero, J., Reed, S. M., Amery, R., Bouvet, E., Enomoto, K., & Xu, H. L. (eds): Intersections in Language Planning and Policy	0
Bernard Spolsky: Rethinking Language Policy	0
Linguistic trajectories and family language policy from the perspective of multilingual young adults in Mexico	0
Language policy at an abortion clinic: linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making	0
Community-based and formal Chinese language education in urban California, 50 years after Lau v. Nichols	0
Typographical advocacy in the age of digital encoding	0
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska: Upper Sorbian Language Policy in Education: Bringing the Language Back, or Bringing it Forward?	0
Eric E. Ekembe, Lauren Harvey and Eric Dwyer (eds): Interface between English Language Education Policies and Practice: Examples from Various Contexts	0
How stable is a family’s language policy? Multilingual families’ beliefs, practices, and management across time	0
Micro language planning and governmentality in ‘globalisation from below’	0
Correction to: Editorial introduction: a historical overview of the expanding critique(s) of the gentrification of dual language bilingual education	0
Local linguistic ideologies and Iraqi Turkmens’ experience of forced migration to Turkey: a folk linguistic perspective	0