OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Policy is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed: Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions	49
Juan A. Freire, Cristina Alfaro, and Ester J. De Jong (eds): The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education	32
Assembling agencies on a website: interactions among language, sports and knowledge	29
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	28
Examining the implementation of language education policies in mainstream primary schools	24
Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines	21
Family language policy and parental language ideologies among Chinese transnational families in multilingual Luxembourg	21
Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis and Humphrey Tonkin (eds): Language and sustainable development	19
Eduardo D. Faingold: Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, and Greenland	17
Teacher identity and the discursive turn: appropriating language policy in North Macedonia	15
Carla Negre Amorós and Gabriela Prego Vázquez (eds): ethnographic landscapes and language ideologies in the Spanish state	15
English-medium teachers as policymakers through critical translingual literacy instruction	10
Language diversity, policy and social justice: In honor of Terrence G. Wiley	10
“Fangyan is a necessity of my child’s life”: navigating language ideologies and family language planning in urban Chinese families	10
Jeffrey L. Kallen: Linguistic Landscapes: A Sociolinguistic Approach	9
“Maybe it was a shield, you know”: Exploring family language policy through the lens of perezhivanie	9
Commentary: In search of sociolinguistic justice: mobilizing transformative agency through action research	9
Governmental rationalities and misrecognising human and social conditions in English-in-education policy for individual and social development	9
In search of sociolinguistic justice: mobilizing transformative agency through action research	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
Gazzola, M., Grin, F., Cardinal, L. and Heugh, K. (eds.) (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138328198	7
Linguistic reconciliation in contexts of conflict: Tamil language learning in Sri Lanka	6
“Teach in English or retire”: linguistic, pedagogical and career consequences of English medium instruction	6
Digital communication as part of family language policy: the interplay of multimodality and language status in a Finnish context	6

Ingrid Piller, Donna Butorac, Emily Farrell, Loy Lising, Shiva Motaghi-Tabari and Vera Williams Tetteh: Life in a New Language	5
Laura Gurney and Lakshmann Wedikkarage (eds): Language Education Policies in Multilingual Education Settings: Exploring Rhetoric and Realities in Situ	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	5
Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz: A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies	5
“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	5
Navigating competing policy demands: Dual service provision for English learners with disabilities in middle school	5
François Grin, László Marácz, and Nike K. Pokorn (eds): Advances in interdisciplinary language policy	4
Critical language policy: Investigating ESL department chair’s implementation of AB 705	4
Enhancing minority language use in digital communication: AI-based translation, speech technologies, and user evidence	4
Language ideologies in motion: negotiating the choice of ‘integration language’ in a Swedish-dominant area of Finland	4
Bilingual education rejected: English-only despite Lau	4
The impact of language education policies on Irish sign language in Irish deaf education	4
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
Bruna Di Sabato and Bronwen Hughes: Multilingual Perspectives from Europe and Beyond on Language Policy and Practice	3