Larry Selinker

7.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Larry Selinker is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Larry Selinker has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Language and Linguistics, 20 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 12 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Larry Selinker's work include Second Language Learning and Teaching (17 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (14 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (12 papers). Larry Selinker is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Learning and Teaching (17 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (14 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (12 papers). Larry Selinker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Larry Selinker's co-authors include Susan M. Gass, Diana Masny, Luke Plonsky, Jennifer Behney, Dan Douglas, Merrill Swain, Usha Lakshmanan, Guy Dumas, Michael Sharwood Smith and Elaine Tarone and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and Modern Language Journal.

In The Last Decade

Larry Selinker

49 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

INTERLANGUAGE

1972 906 citations Larry Selinker IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching profile →
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course

1993 831 citations Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker profile →
Language Transfer in Language Learning

1985 510 citations Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker et al. Modern Language Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Larry Selinker United States	23	2.8k	1.7k	1.5k	1.1k	533	52	3.8k
Elaine Tarone United States	35	3.5k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.5×	1.5k 1.3×	710 1.3×	85	4.7k
Patsy M. Lightbown Canada	26	3.7k 1.3×	2.8k 1.6×	2.3k 1.6×	909 0.8×	387 0.7×	56	4.8k
Heidi Byrnes United States	26	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	677 0.6×	384 0.7×	110	3.1k
Kathleen Bardovi‐Harlig United States	35	3.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	744 0.7×	767 1.4×	88	3.9k
Kevin R. Gregg United Kingdom	11	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	514 0.5×	314 0.6×	21	3.3k
Catherine J. Doughty United States	13	3.9k 1.4×	2.7k 1.6×	2.3k 1.5×	541 0.5×	456 0.9×	22	4.5k
Theodore V. Higgs United States	10	2.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	746 0.7×	221 0.4×	21	3.5k
Stig Johansson Norway	17	3.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 2.0×	46	4.8k
Vivian Cook United Kingdom	19	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	412 0.8×	55	3.8k
Marianne Celce‐Murcia United States	18	3.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	905 0.8×	918 1.7×	50	4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Larry Selinker

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Selinker, Larry. (2020). Interlíngua. 22(1). 275–295. 2 indexed citations

Selinker, Larry, et al.. (2017). Using the discourse domain hypothesis of interlanguage to teach scientific concepts: Report on a case study in secondary education. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. 55(4). 413–454. 1 indexed citations

Selinker, Larry. (2011). Some Unresolved Issues in an ELT New Media Age: Towards Building an Interlanguage Semantics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

Selinker, Larry, et al.. (2004). Linguistic structure with processing in second language research: is a ‘unified theory’ possible?. Second language Research. 20(1). 77–94. 2 indexed citations

Selinker, Larry, et al.. (2001). Interlanguage speech recognition by computer : implications for SLA and computational machines. Jyväskylä University Digital Archive (University of Jyväskylä). 1 indexed citations

Gass, Susan M., Antonella Sorace, & Larry Selinker. (1999). Second language learning data analysis : teachers' manual. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker, & Michael Sharwood Smith. (1995). The current state of interlanguage. 1. 45 indexed citations

Lakshmanan, Usha & Larry Selinker. (1994). The status of CP and the tensed complementizer that in the developing L2 grammars of English. Second language Research. 10(1). 25–48. 22 indexed citations

Selinker, Larry. (1993). Fossilization as Simplification. 3 indexed citations

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Johnson, Karen E., Robert Phillipson, Eric Kellerman, et al.. (1992). Foreign/Second Language Pedagogy Research: A Commemorative Volume for Claus Faerch. Modern Language Journal. 76(2). 236–236. 54 indexed citations

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Selinker, Larry. (1990). Papers and studies in contrastive linguistics . Vol. 22. Ed. By Jacek Fisiak. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University and Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1988. Pp. 225.. Language. 66(1). 188–189. 83 indexed citations

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Kramsch, Claire, Susan M. Gass, Carolyn G. Madden, Dennis R. Preston, & Larry Selinker. (1990). Variation in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. I: Discourse and Pragmatics. Modern Language Journal. 74(3). 383–383. 3 indexed citations

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Selinker, Larry. (1986). An empirical look at the integration and separation of skills in ELT. ELT Journal. 40(3). 227–235. 9 indexed citations

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Selinker, Larry & Dan Douglas. (1986). The Problem of Comparing Episodes in Discourse Domains in Interlanguage Studies.. European Journal of Radiology. 59(1). 29–32. 2 indexed citations

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Selinker, Larry. (1986). Attempting Comprehensive and Comparative Empirical Research in Second Language Acquisition. Language Learning. 36(1). 83–100.

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Selinker, Larry & Dan Douglas. (1985). Wrestling with 'Context' in Interlanguage Theory*. Applied Linguistics. 6(2). 190–204. 91 indexed citations

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Selinker, Larry, et al.. (1978). Rhetorical Function-Shifts in EST Discourse. TESOL Quarterly. 12(3). 311–311. 25 indexed citations

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Tarone, Elaine, Ulrich Hans Frauenfelder, & Larry Selinker. (1976). Systematicity/variability and stability/instability in interlanguage systems. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 35 indexed citations

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Selinker, Larry. (1972). A Brief Reappraisal of Contrastive Linguistics.. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. 8 indexed citations

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Selinker, Larry. (1972). INTERLANGUAGE. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. 10(1-4). 906 indexed citations breakdown →

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