James W. Tollefson

4.7k citations
47 papers · 2.2k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 15

James W. Tollefson

44 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Planning Language, Planning Inequality: Language Policy i...3081991202620022014100200300

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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
  • Gender Studies 98
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 2018201
2 201819
3 201814
4 201810
5
Representation and Legitimization in Political Discourse: The Campaign against Bilingual Education
20100
6 200712
7
A critical approach to teacher education
20061
8
Medium of instruction policies: which agenda? whose agenda?
2003368
9
Reconsidering"Target Language"
20021
10
Power and Inequality in Language Education
1995262
11 199045
12
Language planning and social theory
19890
13 19897
14 198621
15 198511
16 19834
17 19818
18 198123
19 19805
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Diglossia and language policy, with special reference to Slovenia
19782

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), Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (8 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (6 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 papers), Higher Education Learning Practices (3 papers), Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 papers) and Global Educational Policies and Reforms (2 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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