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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial introduction: a historical overview of the expanding critique(s) of the gentrification of dual language bilingual education	21
“Now it’s all upper-class parents who are checking out schools”: gentrification as coloniality in the enactment of two-way bilingual education policies	18
“We live in the age of choice”: school administrators, school choice policies, and the shaping of dual language bilingual education	14
The fiftyfication of dual language education: one-size-fits-all language allocation’s “equality” and “practicality” eclipsing a history of equity	11
Grammar tests, de facto policy and pedagogical coercion in England’s primary schools	9
Black lives matter versus Castañeda v. Pickard: a utopian vision of who counts as bilingual (and who matters in bilingual education)	9
“Research shows that I am here for them”: Acompañamiento as language policy activism in times of TWBE gentrification	9
Beneficiary voices in ELT development aid: ethics, epistemology and politics	8
Conceptualisation of family and language practice in family language policy research on migrants: a systematic review	8
Creating fertile grounds for two-way immersion: gentrification, immigration, & neoliberal school reforms	7
The evolution of language ideological debates about English and French in a multilingual humanitarian organisation	7
Language policy and linguistic landscaping in a contemporary blue-collar workplace in the Dutch–German borderland	6
Digital communication as part of family language policy: the interplay of multimodality and language status in a Finnish context	6
Is English the world’s lingua franca or the language of the enemy? Choice and age factors in foreign language policymaking in Iran	6
A Black mother’s counterstory to the Brown–White binary in dual language education: toward disrupting dual language as White property	6
Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family	6
Sign language planning and policy in Ontario teacher education	5
Aspirational family language policy	5
The gentrification of two-way dual language programs: a commentary	5
Officiality and strategic ambiguity in language policy: exploring migrant experiences in Andorra and Luxembourg	5
Perceptions and attitudes of Qatar University students regarding the utility of arabic and english in communication and education in Qatar	5
The (un)making and (re)making of Guangzhou’s ‘Little Africa’: Xiaobei’s linguistic and semiotic landscape explored	4
The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study	4
Contesting language policy for asylum seekers in the Northern periphery: the story of Tailor F	4
Educational linguicism: linguistic discrimination against minority students in Vietnamese mainstream schools	4

Advocating an empirically-founded university admission policy	4
From discourses about language-in-education policy to language practices in the classroom—a linguistic ethnographic study of a multi-scalar nature in Timor-Leste	4
Policy formation for adult migrant language education in England: national neglect and its implications	3
Reconstructing over 20 years of language practice, management and ideology at a multinational corporation in Brussels: A scaled socio-historical approach to language policy	3
Pride, prejudice and pragmatism: family language policies in the UK	3
Amid signs of change: language policy, ideology and power in the linguistic landscape of urban Rwanda	3
Adult literacy classes in Timor-Leste and diverse language values and practices across the regions: implications for language policy-making	3
‘I don’t think that’s really their wheelhouse’: governing language policy interpretation in teacher education	3
The punctuated equilibrium model of public policy: explaining inertia in Singapore’s Mother Tongue policy	3
Ten years later: What has become of FLP?	3
Editorial introduction: Advocacy issues and research in language policy	3
Tetun akadémiku: University lecturers’ roles in the intellectualisation of Tetum	3
Critical ethnography of language policy in the global south: insights from research in Timor-Leste	3