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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed: Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions	23
Juan A. Freire, Cristina Alfaro, and Ester J. De Jong (eds): The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education	20
Family language policy and parental language ideologies among Chinese transnational families in multilingual Luxembourg	17
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	17
Examining the implementation of language education policies in mainstream primary schools	14
Assembling agencies on a website: interactions among language, sports and knowledge	13
Is English the world’s lingua franca or the language of the enemy? Choice and age factors in foreign language policymaking in Iran	12
Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines	11
Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis and Humphrey Tonkin (eds): Language and sustainable development	11
English-medium teachers as policymakers through critical translingual literacy instruction	10
Eduardo D. Faingold: Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, and Greenland	10
“Maybe it was a shield, you know”: Exploring family language policy through the lens of perezhivanie	10
Commentary: In search of sociolinguistic justice: mobilizing transformative agency through action research	8
Jeffrey L. Kallen: Linguistic Landscapes: A Sociolinguistic Approach	8
Language advocacy in times of securitization and neoliberalization: The Network LanguageRights	8
The expansive language access framework: an integrated approach to addressing oppression in language education	7
Digital communication as part of family language policy: the interplay of multimodality and language status in a Finnish context	7
Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading	7
Ingrid Piller, Donna Butorac, Emily Farrell, Loy Lising, Shiva Motaghi-Tabari and Vera Williams Tetteh: Life in a New Language	6
Linguistic reconciliation in contexts of conflict: Tamil language learning in Sri Lanka	6
Black lives matter versus Castañeda v. Pickard: a utopian vision of who counts as bilingual (and who matters in bilingual education)	6
Ari Sherris and Susan D. Penfield (eds): Rejecting the marginalized status of minority languages: educational projects pushing back against language endangerment	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
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
Critical language policy: Investigating ESL department chair’s implementation of AB 705	5

Navigating competing policy demands: Dual service provision for English learners with disabilities in middle school	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
Laura Gurney and Lakshmann Wedikkarage (eds): Language Education Policies in Multilingual Education Settings: Exploring Rhetoric and Realities in Situ	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
Amid signs of change: language policy, ideology and power in the linguistic landscape of urban Rwanda	4
Bilingual education rejected: English-only despite Lau	4
The impact of language education policies on Irish sign language in Irish deaf education	4
Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz: A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies	4
François Grin, László Marácz, and Nike K. Pokorn (eds): Advances in interdisciplinary language policy	4
Beyond Castañeda and the “language barrier” ideology: young children and their right to bilingualism	4
Reflections on Lau: A historical perspective	3
“What is language for us?”: Community-based Anishinaabemowin language planning using TEK-nology	3
Advocacy strategies for a new multilingual educational policy in Israel	3
Bruna Di Sabato and Bronwen Hughes: Multilingual Perspectives from Europe and Beyond on Language Policy and Practice	3
Correction to: The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study	3
Classroom implementation by Masbatenyo public elementary teachers of the mother tongue-based multilingual education policy: a case study	3
Williams, C. H. (2023). Language policy and the new speaker challenge: hiding in plain sight. Cambridge University Press	3
Abhimanyu Sharma: Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy (Evidence from Comparative Cases)	3
“PARLAM EN ARANÉS”: relational agency in Aranese language-in-education policy realities	3
Language and translation policies in China’s multilingual governance: A study of the early and mid-Qing dynasty	3
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
Family language policy and language shift in postcolonial Mozambique: a critical, multi-layered approach	2
Rebecca Blum-Martinez and Mary Jean Habermann López: The Shoulders We Stand on: A History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico	2
After Castañeda: a glotopolítica perspective and educational dignity paradigm to educate racialized bilinguals	2
Agency in muda processes: transforming subjectivities and linguistic practices in the Basque context	2
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	2
Is language a ‘right’ in U.S. education?: unpacking Castañeda’s reach across federal, state, and district lines	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
Language policy from textuality to (re)entextualization: expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses	2
Alice Leal and Seán Ó Riain: Language Policy and the Future of Europe: A Conversation with Seán Ó Riain	2
“I’ve become what I’m trying to fight…”: classroom language policy navigation and embodied critical consciousness	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
Editorial introduction: revisiting and (re)imagining Castañeda v. Pickard through critical lenses	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
Interpreting as educational policy: disentangling discourses of language access in schools	1
Björklund, S. & Björklund, M. (eds.) (2023). Policy and practice for Multilingual Educational Settings. Comparisons across contexts. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. Multilingual matters	1
India’s language policy for deaf and hard-of-hearing people	1
Fornasiero, J., Reed, S. M., Amery, R., Bouvet, E., Enomoto, K., & Xu, H. L. (eds): Intersections in Language Planning and Policy	1
Pride, prejudice and pragmatism: family language policies in the UK	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
Eric E. Ekembe, Lauren Harvey and Eric Dwyer (eds): Interface between English Language Education Policies and Practice: Examples from Various Contexts	0
Community-based and formal Chinese language education in urban California, 50 years after Lau v. Nichols	0
Savski, K. (2024). Language policy in action. Cambridge University Press.	0
Review of language as a statecraft- “Global english” and the politics of language in Rwanda by Kate spowage	0
Language revitalization through a social movement lens: grassroots Galician language activism	0
Linguistic trajectories and family language policy from the perspective of multilingual young adults in Mexico	0
The (il)legitimacy of Arizona’s English-only language policies: an analysis of legitimacy in language policy discourse	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
Kashif Raza, Christine Coombe, & Dudley Reynolds (eds.): policy development in TESOL and multilingualism—past, present and the way forward	0
Ten years later: What has become of FLP?	0
Typographical advocacy in the age of digital encoding	0
Principal agency 50 years after the Lau decision: Building and sustaining bilingual education programs for Asian languages	0
Introduction title of special issue: learning from Lau v. Nichols (1974): 50 years later	0
Ian Cushing: Standards, Stigma, Surveillance: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and England’s Schools	0
Attitudes of Dalit students and teachers towards English: a language of Dalit emancipation?	0
The Palgrave Handbook of Language Policies in Africa, edited by Ester Mukewa Lisanza and Leonard Muaka	0
Motivations for service provision spectrum: needs assessments and language policy approaches	0
Local linguistic ideologies and Iraqi Turkmens’ experience of forced migration to Turkey: a folk linguistic perspective	0
Correction to: Editorial introduction: a historical overview of the expanding critique(s) of the gentrification of dual language bilingual education	0
‘Contra el Arteijo de Google’: political agency in secondary school adolescents within the framework of a participatory research study in Galicia	0
Bernard Spolsky: Rethinking Language 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
Four decades after Castañeda: a critical analysis of Bilingual/Dual Language Education in Colorado	0
Assessing litigant’s language proficiency: the case of the Bafoussam Court of First Instance	0
Ali Jalalian Daghigh, Jariah Mohd Jan, & Sheena Kaur (eds.): neoliberalism of English language policy in the Global South	0
Subhan Zein: Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia	0
Advocating an empirically-founded university admission policy	0
Subhan Zein and Maria R. Coady (eds): early language learning policy in the 21st century: an international perspective	0
Aspirational family language policy	0
Micro language planning and governmentality in ‘globalisation from below’	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
Family language policy in Chinese d/Deaf-parented families with hearing children: the interplay of multi-dimensional factors	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
Commentary: Revisiting Castañeda as law, policy, ideology, and critical educational resource	0
Individual language advocates and managers	0
English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies	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
Mekonnen Alemu Gebre Yohannes: Language Policy in Ethiopia: The Interplay between Policy and Practice in Tigray Regional State	0
Piotr Romanowski: Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora: A Focus on Australia	0
Becoming bilingual (or not): A look into the public’s intersecting orientations towards Bilingual 2030 in multilingual Taiwan	0
Choosing is losing: language policy and language choice acts at the asylum law firm	0
Transformative actions for sociolinguistic equity: mobilizing students' agency at university	0
Jim McKinley and Nicola Galloway: English-medium instruction practices in higher education: international perspectives	0
Ericka Albaugh, Linda Cardinal, and Rémi Léger (eds): States of Language Policy: Theorizing Continuity and Change	0
The (un)making and (re)making of Guangzhou’s ‘Little Africa’: Xiaobei’s linguistic and semiotic landscape explored	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
Implicit language policy in ethnic minority migrant community in urban China: a study of the linguistic landscape of “Little Lhasa”	0
Conceptualisation of family and language practice in family language policy research on migrants: a systematic review	0
Language test activism	0
How stable is a family’s language policy? Multilingual families’ beliefs, practices, and management across time	0
Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway	0
Correction: Williams, C. H. (2023). Language policy and the new speaker challenge: hiding in plain sight. Cambridge University Press	0
Katherine S. Flowers: Making English Official: Writing and Resisting Local Language Policies	0
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska: Upper Sorbian Language Policy in Education: Bringing the Language Back, or Bringing it Forward?	0
Jef Verschueren: Complicity in Discourse and Practice	0
David Cassels Johnson, and Eric J. Johnson: The Language Gap: Normalizing Deficit Ideologies	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
Correction: English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies	0
Mid-level leaders as key policy interpreters: state and local leaders’ perspectives on leveraging Castañeda to expand equity for English learner students	0
Re-orienting to language users: humanizing orientations in language planning as praxis	0
In Memorium: A tribute to Bernard Spolsky	0
Michael Kretzer & Russell Kaschula (eds): Handbook of language policy and education in countries of the Southern African development community (SADC)	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
Correction: Commentary: Revisiting Castañeda as law, policy, ideology, and critical educational resource	0
Agency mobilization applying an ethnography-based questionnaire of critical sociolinguistic incidents	0
The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study	0
The Chinese Freedom Schools: Historicizing and intersecting Lau with Brown	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
Lau v. Nichols revisited: unveiling dual language program disparities in California for Asian students and marginalized communities	0
Jie Zhang: Language Policy and Planning for the Modern Olympic Games	0
A genealogical inquiry into raciolinguistic ideology and language policy among Spanish Franciscan missionaries in Alta California	0
Language policy at an abortion clinic: linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making	0
In memoriam: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 1940–2023	0
Policy formation for adult migrant language education in England: national neglect and its implications	0
A raciolinguistic perspective on career readiness standards in career and technical education: Professionalism and communication skills as white linguistic practices	0
Native-speakerism in the Norwegian subject teacher training program	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