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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed: Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions	40
Juan A. Freire, Cristina Alfaro, and Ester J. De Jong (eds): The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education	26
Assembling agencies on a website: interactions among language, sports and knowledge	24
Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines	20
Examining the implementation of language education policies in mainstream primary schools	20
Nicholas limerick, Jamie L. Schissel, Mario López-Gopar, Vilma Huerta Cordova (eds.): Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools: Confronting Colonial Language Policies across the Americas. Teachers Co	20
Family language policy and parental language ideologies among Chinese transnational families in multilingual Luxembourg	16
Eduardo D. Faingold: Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, and Greenland	13
Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis and Humphrey Tonkin (eds): Language and sustainable development	13
Teacher identity and the discursive turn: appropriating language policy in North Macedonia	12
Carla Negre Amorós and Gabriela Prego Vázquez (eds): ethnographic landscapes and language ideologies in the Spanish state	12
“Fangyan is a necessity of my child’s life”: navigating language ideologies and family language planning in urban Chinese families	10
English-medium teachers as policymakers through critical translingual literacy instruction	10
Governmental rationalities and misrecognising human and social conditions in English-in-education policy for individual and social development	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	8
In search of sociolinguistic justice: mobilizing transformative agency through action research	7
Jeffrey L. Kallen: Linguistic Landscapes: A Sociolinguistic Approach	7
Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading	6
The expansive language access framework: an integrated approach to addressing oppression in language education	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
Commentary: In search of sociolinguistic justice: mobilizing transformative agency through action research	6
Digital communication as part of family language policy: the interplay of multimodality and language status in a Finnish context	5
Linguistic reconciliation in contexts of conflict: Tamil language learning in Sri Lanka	5
Ingrid Piller, Donna Butorac, Emily Farrell, Loy Lising, Shiva Motaghi-Tabari and Vera Williams Tetteh: Life in a New Language	5

Integrating the lived experience of language with discursive approaches to policy: an exploration of Luxembourgish primary school students’ accounts of German language education policy	4
Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz: A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies	4
Bilingual education rejected: English-only despite Lau	4
Laura Gurney and Lakshmann Wedikkarage (eds): Language Education Policies in Multilingual Education Settings: Exploring Rhetoric and Realities in Situ	4
Navigating competing policy demands: Dual service provision for English learners with disabilities in middle school	4
The impact of language education policies on Irish sign language in Irish deaf education	4
“Como no me convierta en Pedro Sánchez”/“If I don’t become Spain’s president”: enhancing agency against sociolinguistic injustice through an interactional conscientization process	4
Critical language policy: Investigating ESL department chair’s implementation of AB 705	4
Helal, F. and Lo Bianco, J. Language politics in Tunisia: a study of language ideological debates	3
Bruna Di Sabato and Bronwen Hughes: Multilingual Perspectives from Europe and Beyond on Language Policy and Practice	3
“What is language for us?”: Community-based Anishinaabemowin language planning using TEK-nology	3
François Grin, László Marácz, and Nike K. Pokorn (eds): Advances in interdisciplinary language policy	3
Linguistic (in)security perceptions and family language policy among Pomak speakers in Western Türkiye	3
Abhimanyu Sharma: Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy (Evidence from Comparative Cases)	3
Language ideologies in motion: negotiating the choice of ‘integration language’ in a Swedish-dominant area of Finland	3
Williams, C. H. (2023). Language policy and the new speaker challenge: hiding in plain sight. Cambridge University Press	2
Agency in muda processes: transforming subjectivities and linguistic practices in the Basque context	2
A chronotopic-scalar approach to family language policy research: the case of Azerbaijanis in Iran	2
“PARLAM EN ARANÉS”: relational agency in Aranese language-in-education policy realities	2
Language and translation policies in China’s multilingual governance: A study of the early and mid-Qing dynasty	2
Correction to: The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study	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
What drives language requirements in migration? A policymaker-focused discourse analysis	1
Alice Leal and Seán Ó Riain: Language Policy and the Future of Europe: A Conversation with Seán Ó Riain	1
Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family	1
Michal Tannenbaum and Elana Shohamy: Developing multilingual education policies: theory, research, practice	1
Editorial introduction: Advocacy issues and research in language policy	1
Trish Morita-Mullaney: Lau v. Nichols and Chinese American Language Rights: The Sunrise and Sunset of Bilingual Education	1
Clamping down on the Castañeda standard: turning the screws for educational equity	1
Language policy from textuality to (re)entextualization: expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses	1
Pride, prejudice and pragmatism: family language policies in the UK	1
India’s language policy for deaf and hard-of-hearing people	1
Editorial introduction: revisiting and (re)imagining Castañeda v. Pickard through critical lenses	1
Björklund, S. & Björklund, M. (eds.) (2023). Policy and practice for Multilingual Educational Settings. Comparisons across contexts. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. Multilingual matters	1
Ying zhan: Child agency in family Language policy: growing up multilingual and multiliterate Walter de Gruyter, New York, 2023 207 pages, ISBN: 978-3-11-100211-8	1
“I’ve become what I’m trying to fight…”: classroom language policy navigation and embodied critical consciousness	1
Family language policy and language shift in postcolonial Mozambique: a critical, multi-layered approach	1
Interpreting as educational policy: disentangling discourses of language access in schools	1
Fornasiero, J., Reed, S. M., Amery, R., Bouvet, E., Enomoto, K., & Xu, H. L. (eds): Intersections in Language Planning and Policy	1
Piotr Romanowski: Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora: A Focus on Australia	0
David Cassels Johnson, and Eric J. Johnson: The Language Gap: Normalizing Deficit Ideologies	0
Becoming bilingual (or not): A look into the public’s intersecting orientations towards Bilingual 2030 in multilingual Taiwan	0
Language policy at an abortion clinic: linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making	0
Four decades after Castañeda: a critical analysis of Bilingual/Dual Language Education in Colorado	0
A genealogical inquiry into raciolinguistic ideology and language policy among Spanish Franciscan missionaries in Alta California	0
Conceptualisation of family and language practice in family language policy research on migrants: a systematic review	0
Community-based and formal Chinese language education in urban California, 50 years after Lau v. Nichols	0
Lee, H. Y., Obaidul Hamid, M., & Hardy, I. (eds): Language policy at the supranational level: English and the ASEAN	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
Regional economic development and language maintenance: is there evidence of policy integration?	0
Policy formation for adult migrant language education in England: national neglect and its implications	0
Savski, K. (2024). Language policy in action. Cambridge University Press.	0
The (un)making and (re)making of Guangzhou’s ‘Little Africa’: Xiaobei’s linguistic and semiotic landscape explored	0
Micro language planning and governmentality in ‘globalisation from below’	0
“Simple Chinese is better than broken English”: a nexus analysis of appropriation of medium-of-instruction policy in Chinese as an additional language classrooms	0
Lau v. Nichols revisited: unveiling dual language program disparities in California for Asian students and marginalized communities	0
Correction: English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies	0
The Palgrave Handbook of Language Policies in Africa, edited by Ester Mukewa Lisanza and Leonard Muaka	0
Ten years later: What has become of FLP?	0
Introduction title of special issue: learning from Lau v. Nichols (1974): 50 years later	0
Local linguistic ideologies and Iraqi Turkmens’ experience of forced migration to Turkey: a folk linguistic perspective	0
Language policy and choice in Israeli kibbutzim	0
Jim McKinley and Nicola Galloway: English-medium instruction practices in higher education: international perspectives	0
Agency mobilization applying an ethnography-based questionnaire of critical sociolinguistic incidents	0
Ian Cushing: Standards, Stigma, Surveillance: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and England’s Schools	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
Choosing is losing: language policy and language choice acts at the asylum law firm	0
Jürgen Jaspers: Monolingual Policies in Multlingual Schools: Tensions, Ambivalence, and Thinking Teachers. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2024, xviii + 276 pp, Hb £78.00, ISBN 9780197698143	0
In memoriam: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 1940–2023	0
Constructing de facto language policy: nexus analysis of migrant students' vocational assessment	0
“I don’t want them to forget their heritage”: afterlives of English-only schooling for single Mexican American mothers	0
Correction: Williams, C. H. (2023). Language policy and the new speaker challenge: hiding in plain sight. Cambridge University Press	0
Ericka Albaugh, Linda Cardinal, and Rémi Léger (eds): States of Language Policy: Theorizing Continuity and Change	0
Ali Jalalian Daghigh, Jariah Mohd Jan, & Sheena Kaur (eds.): neoliberalism of English language policy in the Global South	0
Linguistic trajectories and family language policy from the perspective of multilingual young adults in Mexico	0
Implicit language policy in ethnic minority migrant community in urban China: a study of the linguistic landscape of “Little Lhasa”	0
Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway	0
Review of language as a statecraft- “Global english” and the politics of language in Rwanda by Kate spowage	0
Eric E. Ekembe, Lauren Harvey and Eric Dwyer (eds): Interface between English Language Education Policies and Practice: Examples from Various Contexts	0
Towards a more transnational language policy? Language policy in education for migrant Spanish Language Learners in Puerto Rico	0
Commentary: Revisiting Castañeda as law, policy, ideology, and critical educational resource	0
Subhan Zein and Maria R. Coady (eds): early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective	0
Language revitalization through a social movement lens: grassroots Galician language activism	0
The (il)legitimacy of Arizona’s English-only language policies: an analysis of legitimacy in language policy discourse	0
Demoule, Jean Paul: The Indo-Europeans. Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West	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
The Chinese Freedom Schools: Historicizing and intersecting Lau with Brown	0
Michael Kretzer & Russell Kaschula (eds): Handbook of language policy and education in countries of the Southern African development community (SADC)	0
The chronopolitics of EMI: ‘temporal infrastructuring’, ‘geotemporal bind’, and the ‘never-yet-postcolonial’ in higher education	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
Principal agency 50 years after the Lau decision: Building and sustaining bilingual education programs for Asian languages	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
Attitudes of Dalit students and teachers towards English: a language of Dalit emancipation?	0
Kashif Raza, Christine Coombe, & Dudley Reynolds (eds.): policy development in TESOL and multilingualism—past, present and the way forward	0
‘Contra el Arteijo de Google’: political agency in secondary school adolescents within the framework of a participatory research study in Galicia	0
Humanizing language policy praxis: translanguaging and teacher agency in Moroccan science education	0
Family language policy in Chinese d/Deaf-parented families with hearing children: the interplay of multi-dimensional factors	0
Native-speakerism in the Norwegian subject teacher training program	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
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
Subhan Zein: Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia	0
Bernard Spolsky: Rethinking Language Policy	0
A raciolinguistic perspective on career readiness standards in career and technical education: Professionalism and communication skills as white linguistic practices	0
Aspirational family language policy	0
How stable is a family’s language policy? Multilingual families’ beliefs, practices, and management across time	0
Jef Verschueren: Complicity in Discourse and Practice	0
Florence Bonacina-Pugh (ed.): Language policy as practice advancing the empirical turn in language policy research. Springer, Cham, 2024, xvii + 263 pp, Hb £135.00, ISBN 978-3-031-55782-8	0
Katherine S. Flowers: Making English Official: Writing and Resisting Local Language Policies	0
Mohammed Errihani: Language, Power, and the Economics of Education in Morocco.Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023, xix + 140 pp, Hb £129.99, ISBN 978-3-031-51593-4	0
Florian Coulmas: language policy—a slim guide	0
Correction to: Editorial introduction: a historical overview of the expanding critique(s) of the gentrification of dual language bilingual education	0
Additional language learning policy for immigrant students: a comparative research	0
English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies	0
Correction: Commentary: Revisiting Castañeda as law, policy, ideology, and critical educational resource	0
Re-orienting to language users: humanizing orientations in language planning as praxis	0
Jie Zhang: Language Policy and Planning for the Modern Olympic Games	0
Transformative actions for sociolinguistic equity: mobilizing students' agency at university	0
In Memorium: A tribute to Bernard Spolsky	0
Mekonnen Alemu Gebre Yohannes: Language Policy in Ethiopia: The Interplay between Policy and Practice in Tigray Regional State	0
Anglonormativity in Norwegian language education policy and in the educational trajectories of immigrant adolescents	0
Building resilience in times of turbulence: agentive responses to changing conditions for Greek heritage language education in Sweden	0
Temporality and EMI policy in Saudi higher education institutions: a search for just pledges and promises	0