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D-Index
55
Citations
20581
World Ranking
1966
National Ranking
942

Overview

Claire Kramsch is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Education.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects including:

  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Claire Kramsch has published several papers in various scholarly venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "I hope you can let this go"/ "Ich hoffe, Sie können das fallen lassen"-Focus on the Perlocutionary in Contrastive Pragmatics, 2020, Contrastive Pragmatics
  • Afterword: The multilingual turn in language teacher education, 2022, Language and Education
  • Claire Kramsch in conversation with Zhu Hua, 2021, Language Teaching
  • Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Commentary, 2021, Modern Language Journal
  • The Political Power of the Algorithm, 2020, Technology and language

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Rutie Adler
  • Annamaria Bellezza
  • Chika Shibahara
  • Lihua Zhang
  • Zhu Hua

Claire Kramsch has published most extensively in the following venues:

  • L2 Journal
  • Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
  • Contrastive Pragmatics
  • Language and Education
  • Modern Language Journal

In addition to journal articles, they have authored books published by prominent academic publishers. These include:

  • Language and culture, 2023, John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Language as Symbolic Power, 2020, Cambridge University Press

Best Publications

  • Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation

    Bonny Norton;Claire J. Kramsch

  • The Multilingual Subject

    Claire Kramsch

  • From Communicative Competence to Symbolic Competence

    Claire Kramsch

  • Teaching Foreign Languages in an Era of Globalization: Introduction

    Claire Kramsch

  • Foreign language learning as global communicative practice

    Claire Kramsch;Steven L. Thorne

  • Language Ecology in Multilingual Settings. Towards a Theory of Symbolic Competence.

    Claire Kramsch;Anne Whiteside

  • Foreign language research in cross-cultural perspective

    Kees De Bot;Ralph B. Ginsberg;Claire J. Kramsch

  • From Language Proficiency to Interactional Competence

    Claire Kramsch

  • Language acquisition and language socialization : ecological perspectives

    Claire J. Kramsch

  • The Cultural Component of Language Teaching

    Claire Kramsch

  • Toward an Intercultural Stance: Teaching German and English through Telecollaboration.

    Paige D. Ware;Claire Kramsch

  • The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural

    Claire Kramsch

  • The multilingual subject : what foreign language learners say about their experience and why it matters

    Claire J. Kramsch

  • Ecological perspectives on foreign language education

    Claire Kramsch

  • Culture in Foreign Language Teaching.

    Claire Kramsch

  • Language, Thought, and Culture

    Claire Kramsch

  • Second language acquisition, applied linguistics and the teaching of foreign languages

    Claire Kramsch

  • The Privilege of the Nonnative Speaker.

    Claire Kramsch

  • Language as Symbolic Power

    Claire J. Kramsch

  • Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

    Claire Kramsch;Brain V. Street

  • Discourse and Language Education@@@Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers

    Claire J. Kramsch;Evelyn Hatch;Michael McCarthy

  • Language and Culture: A Social Semiotic Perspective.

    Claire Kramsch

  • Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Miriam R. L. Petruck;Kees de Bot;Ralph B. Ginsberg;Claire Kramsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Kees de Bot
Kees de Bot University of Groningen
Steven L. Thorne
Steven L. Thorne Portland State University
Rebecca L. Oxford
Rebecca L. Oxford University of Maryland, College Park
Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University
Juliane House
Juliane House Universität Hamburg
Diane Larsen-Freeman
Diane Larsen-Freeman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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