Leah Durán

743 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 447 citations indexed

About

Leah Durán is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Leah Durán has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 447 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Linguistics and Language, 6 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 6 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Leah Durán's work include Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (4 papers). Leah Durán is often cited by papers focused on Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (4 papers). Leah Durán collaborates with scholars based in United States. Leah Durán's co-authors include Michiko Hikida, Ramón Antonio Martínez, Deborah K. Palmer, Jo Worthy, Kathryn Henderson and Katie A. Bernstein and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Reading Research Quarterly and Phi Delta Kappan.

In The Last Decade

Leah Durán

14 papers receiving 407 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.

Unpacking Ideologies of Linguistic Purism: How Dual Language Teachers Make Sense of Everyday Translanguaging

2014 172 citations Ramón Antonio Martínez, Michiko Hikida et al. International Multilingual Research Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leah Durán United States	9	385	344	286	95	45	16	447
Andrea Young France	9	228 0.6×	207 0.6×	159 0.6×	91 1.0×	27 0.6×	22	307
Ester de Jong United States	6	198 0.5×	193 0.6×	185 0.6×	170 1.8×	35 0.8×	10	349
Laura Hamman‐Ortiz United States	8	210 0.5×	192 0.6×	159 0.6×	76 0.8×	38 0.8×	17	288
Jerri Willett United States	9	163 0.4×	203 0.6×	204 0.7×	130 1.4×	45 1.0×	13	335
Cristian Solorza United States	5	255 0.7×	209 0.6×	139 0.5×	108 1.1×	26 0.6×	7	310
Susan Hopewell United States	10	217 0.6×	185 0.5×	106 0.4×	100 1.1×	124 2.8×	15	298
Katie A. Bernstein United States	8	204 0.5×	164 0.5×	114 0.4×	115 1.2×	18 0.4×	20	278
Romy Clark United Kingdom	5	129 0.3×	181 0.5×	131 0.5×	63 0.7×	24 0.5×	7	248
Priti Sandhu United States	6	131 0.3×	142 0.4×	96 0.3×	66 0.7×	23 0.5×	10	218
Tara Williams Fortune United States	11	180 0.5×	201 0.6×	178 0.6×	79 0.8×	76 1.7×	19	293

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Durán, Leah & Katie A. Bernstein. (2024). Names y nombres: Names as gateways to biliteracy in multilingual early childhood classrooms. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 24(3). 523–550. 1 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah, et al.. (2024). Exploring and Expanding Literacy Histories of the United States.

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Durán, Leah, et al.. (2022). Walls, Bridges, Borders, Papers: Civic Literacy in the Borderlands. Research in the Teaching of English. 57(2). 156–176. 3 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah & Michiko Hikida. (2022). Making sense of reading’s forever wars. Phi Delta Kappan. 103(8). 14–19. 5 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah, et al.. (2022). Recipes as Invitations to Read, Write, and Play in Preschool. The Reading Teacher. 76(4). 412–420.

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Durán, Leah. (2020). “Todas las poems que están creative”: Language Ideologies, Writing and Bilingual Children. Journal of Language Identity & Education. 19(6). 412–427. 15 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah, et al.. (2020). A Historical Inquiry Into Bilingual Reading Textbooks: Coloniality and Biliteracy at the Turn of the 20th Century. Reading Research Quarterly. 56(3). 497–518. 4 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah & Kathryn Henderson. (2018). Pockets of hope: Cases of linguistic flexibility in the classroom. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 76–90. 10 indexed citations

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Martínez, Ramón Antonio, Leah Durán, & Michiko Hikida. (2017). Becoming “Spanish Learners”: Identity and Interaction Among Multilingual Children in a Spanish-English Dual Language Classroom. International Multilingual Research Journal. 11(3). 167–183. 23 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah. (2017). Understanding young children’s everyday biliteracy: “Spontaneous” and “scientific” influences on learning. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 18(1). 71–96. 13 indexed citations

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Henderson, Kathryn, et al.. (2016). Using Technology and Mentorship to Improve Teacher Pedagogy and Educational Opportunities in Rural Nicaragua. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah. (2016). Revisiting Family Message Journals: Audience and Biliteracy Development in a First-Grade ESL Classroom. Language Arts. 93(5). 354–365. 21 indexed citations

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Durán, Leah. (2016). Audience and Young Bilingual Writers. Journal of Literacy Research. 49(1). 92–114. 50 indexed citations

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Martínez, Ramón Antonio, Michiko Hikida, & Leah Durán. (2014). Unpacking Ideologies of Linguistic Purism: How Dual Language Teachers Make Sense of Everyday Translanguaging. International Multilingual Research Journal. 9(1). 26–42. 172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Durán, Leah & Deborah K. Palmer. (2013). Pluralist discourses of bilingualism and translanguaging talk in classrooms. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 14(3). 367–388. 82 indexed citations

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Worthy, Jo, et al.. (2013). Spaces for Dynamic Bilingualism in Read-Aloud Discussions: Developing and Strengthening Bilingual and Academic Skills. Bilingual Research Journal. 36(3). 311–328. 42 indexed citations

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