Richard Schmidt

12.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
34 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Richard Schmidt is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Schmidt has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Language and Linguistics, 6 papers in Linguistics and Language and 5 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Richard Schmidt's work include EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (9 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (5 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (4 papers). Richard Schmidt is often cited by papers focused on EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (9 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (5 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (4 papers). Richard Schmidt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Richard Schmidt's co-authors include Jack C. Richards, Graham Crookes, Nick C. Ellis, Gabriele Kasper, Zoltán Dörnyei, Jan H. Hulstijn, Robert DeKeyser, Catherine J. Doughty, Peter Robinson and Brian MacWhinney and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Modern Language Journal and TESOL Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Richard Schmidt

30 papers receiving 4.9k citations

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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.

Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

2013 1.6k citations Jack C. Richards, Richard Schmidt profile →
Cognition and Second Language Instruction

2001 1.2k citations Peter Robinson, Richard Schmidt et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Motivation: Reopening the Research Agenda

1991 786 citations Richard Schmidt et al. profile →
Attention and awareness in foreign language learning

1995 497 citations Richard Schmidt profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The un-hidden curriculum: ethnographic findings on socialization at school entry that challenge the notion of the hidden curriculum 2025 ·Journal of Curriculum Studies ·Richard Schmidt	0
2	Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism 2023 ·British Journal of Sociology of Education ·Richard Schmidt	2
3	Lehrbuch des deutschen Zivilprozessrechts 2013 ·DUNCKER UND HUMBLOT eBooks ·Richard Schmidt	1
4	Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics breakdown → 2013 ·Jack C. Richards, Richard Schmidt	1570
5	Cognition and Second Language Instruction breakdown → 2001 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Peter Robinson, Richard Schmidt, Nick C. Ellis, Brian MacWhinney, Michael Harrington, Robert DeKeyser, Kevin R. Gregg, Peter Skehan, Catherine J. Doughty, Jan H. Hulstijn, Mark Sawyer, Renée Jourdenais	1201
6	Motivation and Second Language Acquisition 2001 ·TESOL Quarterly ·(unknown), Zoltán Dörnyei, Richard Schmidt	481
7	Rules or Associations in the Acquisition of Morphology? The Frequency by Regularity Interaction in Human and PDP Learning of Morphosyntax 1998 ·Language and Cognitive Processes ·Nick C. Ellis, Richard Schmidt	57
8	The Centrality of Attention in SLA 1998 ·ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ·Richard Schmidt	7
9	Foreign Language Motivation: Internal Structure and External Connections 1996 ·ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ·Richard Schmidt, (unknown), (unknown)	167
10	Motivation for learning foreign languages 1996 ·ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ·Richard Schmidt	0
11	THE ROLE OF THE LANGUAGE LEARNER (AWARENESS AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION) 1993 ·Richard Schmidt	1
12	Current trends in the study of motivation for foreign language learning 1992 ·Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses ·Richard Schmidt	1
13	Awareness and Second Language Learning. 1992 ·Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ·Richard Schmidt	2
14	Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Fluency 1992 ·Studies in Second Language Acquisition ·Richard Schmidt	264
15	Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung von Otto Böhtlingk. 1991 ·Richard Schmidt, (unknown)	4
16	Gültigkeitsbereiche von Näherungsformeln zur Berechnung von Säure‐Base‐Gleichgewichten 1980 ·Zeitschrift für Chemie ·Günter Henrion, Richard Schmidt, (unknown)	1
17	Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Transfer in Phonology. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 12. 1977 ·Richard Schmidt	5
18	Standard and Super-Standard English: Recognition and Use of Prescriptive Rules by Native and Non-Native Speakers 1977 ·TESOL Quarterly ·Richard Schmidt, (unknown)	10
19	Grundriss des Zivilprozessrechts und des Konkursrechts 1970 ·Friedrich Stein, (unknown), Richard Schmidt	2
20	Burgen des deutschen Mittelalters 1959 ·Richard Schmidt	6

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