2026 Bonny Norton: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	47	3231	2972	185	175	121	29806

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
2012 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Bonny Norton is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their work spans multiple fields, predominantly within Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Specifically, their research has contributed to literature and literary theory, linguistics and language, language and linguistics, anthropology, and speech and hearing.

Their main research topics focus on multilingual education and policy, second language learning and teaching, and EFL/ESL teaching and learning. Additional areas of study include African history and culture studies, discourse analysis in language studies, digital storytelling and education, and language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Bonny Norton has published extensively in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
Language Teaching
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Modern Language Journal
Educational Linguistics

Their recent scholarly articles include:

Investment and motivation in language learning: What's the difference? (2021), published in Language Teaching
Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Identity and Power: Investment in SLA (2020), published in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education (2024), published in Modern Language Journal
Bangla and the identity of the heritage language teacher (2022), published in Educational Linguistics
Dual Language Books Go Digital: Storybooks Canada in French Immersion Schools and Homes (2022), published in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics

Bonny Norton frequently collaborates with researchers such as Liam Doherty, Ron Darvin, Espen Stranger-Johannessen, Asma Afreen, and Monica Shank Lauwo.

Their contributions to the academic community have been recognized through awards, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016 under the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2012.

Best Publications

Identity and language learning : gender, ethnicity and educational change

Bonny Norton

5188
Citations
Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation

Bonny Norton;Claire J. Kramsch

3233
Citations
Identity and language learning

Bonny Norton

3000
Citations
Language, Identity, and the Ownership of English

Bonny Norton

2837
Citations
Identity, language learning, and social change

Bonny Norton;Kelleen Toohey

1674
Citations
Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities: Introduction

Yasuko Kanno;Bonny Norton

1337
Citations
Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics

Ron Darvin;Bonny Norton

1292
Citations
A Transdisciplinary Framework for SLA in a Multilingual World

D. Atkinson;H. Byrnes;M. Doran;P. Duff

1284
Citations
Changing Perspectives on Good Language Learners

Bonny Norton;Kelleen Toohey

1009
Citations
Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities : A Special Issue of the journal of Language, Identity, and Education

Yasuko Kanno;Bonny Norton

775
Citations
Critical pedagogies and language learning

Bonny Norton;Kelleen Toohey

767
Citations
Imagined Communities, Identity, and English Language Learning

Aneta Pavlenko;Bonny Norton

749
Citations
Identity and Second Language Acquisition

Bonny Norton

467
Citations
Introduction: Identity, Transdisciplinarity, and the Good Language Teacher

Peter I. De Costa;Bonny Norton

460
Citations
An Identity Approach To Second Language Acquisition

Bonny Norton;Carolyn McKinney

446
Citations
Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation (2nd ed.)

Bonny Norton

335
Citations
Researcher Identity, Narrative Inquiry, and Language Teaching Research

Bonny Norton;Margaret Early

292
Citations
Identity, investment, and Chinese learners of English

Bonny Norton;Yihong Gao

281
Citations
The Motivating Power of Comic Books: Insights from Archie Comic Readers.

Bonny Norton

256
Citations
Research tasks on identity in language learning and teaching

Bonny Norton;Peter I. De Costa

240
Citations
The Imagined Communities of English Language Learners in a Pakistani School

Bonny Norton;Farah Kamal

228
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Aneta Pavlenko Temple University

Richard Clément University of Ottawa

Patricia A. Duff University of British Columbia

Lourdes Ortega Georgetown University

Elaine Tarone University of Minnesota

James P. Lantolf Pennsylvania State University

Diane Larsen-Freeman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Merrill Swain University of Toronto

Nick C. Ellis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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