James W. Tollefson

4.7k citations
47 papers · 2.2k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 15
Topics
Multilingual Education and Policy (23 papers)Second Language Learning and Teaching (13 papers)Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (8 papers)
Journals
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaModern Language JournalTESOL Quarterly

In The Last Decade

James W. Tollefson

44 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Planning Language, Planning Inequality: Language Policy i...19912026200220141991100200300

Peers

James W. Tollefson
Comparison fields: 5 of 69
  • Linguistics and Language 1.6k
  • Literature and Literary Theory 1.3k
  • Language and Linguistics 1.0k
  • Education 409
  • Sociology and Political Science 351
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All Works

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2 19
3 14
4 10
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Representation and Legitimization in Political Discourse: The Campaign against Bilingual Education
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6 12
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A critical approach to teacher education
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Medium of instruction policies: which agenda? whose agenda?
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Reconsidering"Target Language"
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Power and Inequality in Language Education
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Language planning and social theory
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13 7
14 21
15 11
16 4
17 8
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19 5
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Diglossia and language policy, with special reference to Slovenia
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About James W. Tollefson

James W. Tollefson is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Literature and Literary Theory, having authored 47 papers that have together received 2.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Multilingual Education and Policy (23 papers), Second Language Learning and Teaching (13 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (1.6k citations), Literature and Literary Theory (1.3k citations) and Language and Linguistics (1.0k citations). James W. Tollefson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Amy Β. M. Tsui, Brian K. Lynch, Miguel Pérez‐Milans, June K. Phillips, Sandra Lee McKay, Elsa Auerbach, Jonathan Brinkerhoff, Sylvia Celedón‐Pattichis, Patrick Shannon and Tove Skutnabb‐Kangas. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Modern Language Journal and TESOL Quarterly.

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