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80
Citations
71263
World Ranking
365
National Ranking
22

Overview

Jim Cummins is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and works primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Their research encompasses subfields such as Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's research focuses mainly on topics including Second Language Learning and Teaching, Multilingual Education and Policy, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Education and Technology Integration, Online and Blended Learning, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, and Dutch Social and Cultural Studies.

Recent papers authored by Jim Cummins include:

  • Using a web-based multilingual platform to support elementary refugee students in mathematics, 2021, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Pedagogical translanguaging: Examining the credibility of unitary versus crosslinguistic translanguaging theory, 2022, OLBI Journal
  • Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read Report: Sincere, Passionate, Flawed, 2022, Journal of Teaching and Learning
  • Critical multilingual language awareness: the role of teachers as language activists and knowledge generators, 2023, Language Awareness
  • How can emerging technologies advance the creation of language-friendly and literacy-friendly schools?, 2024, Language Culture and Curriculum

Jim Cummins has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Teaching and Learning
  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • OLBI Journal
  • Language Awareness
  • Language Culture and Curriculum

The scientist has collaborated often with co-authors including Jarmo Lainio, Emmanuelle Le Pichon, Jacob Vorstman, and Raymond Isola.

In addition to articles, Jim Cummins has contributed to book publications, primarily with Multilingual Matters eBooks, where two editions of "Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners" were published in 2021. Another edition appeared with Channel View Publications eBooks in the same year.

Best Publications

  • Language, Power, and Pedagogy

    Jim Cummins

  • Language, Power And Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire

    Jim Cummins

  • The role of primary language development in promoting educational success for language minority students

    J. Cummins

  • Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society

    Jim Cummins

  • Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children

    James Cummins

  • Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency, Linguistic Interdependence, the Optimum Age Question and Some Other Matters. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 19.

    Jim Cummins

  • Bilingualism in Education: Aspects of theory, research and practice

    Jim Cummins;Merrill Swain

  • Bilingualism and special education : issues in assessment and pedagogy

    Jim Cummins

  • Empowering minority students: A framework for intervention.

    Jim Cummins

  • Interdependence of first- and second-language proficiency in bilingual children

    Jim Cummins

  • Rethinking monolingual instructional strategies in multilingual classrooms

    Jim Cummins

  • The Cross-Lingual Dimensions of Language Proficiency: Implications for Bilingual Education and the Optimal Age Issue.

    Jim Cummins

  • Age on Arrival and Immigrant Second Language Learning in Canada: A Reassessment1

    Jim Cummins

  • BICS and CALP: Empirical and Theoretical Status of the Distinction

    Jim Cummins

  • A proposal for action: Strategies for recognizing heritage language competence as a learning resource within the mainstream classroom.

    Jim Cummins

  • Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Language Learners

    Ofelia García;Jo Anne Kleifgen;Jim Cummins

  • Bilingualism and Minority-Language Children. Language and Literacy Series.

    Jim Cummins

  • Empowering minority students

    Jim Cummins

  • Brave New Schools : Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks

    Jim Cummins;Dennis Sayers

  • Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education?

    Jim Cummins

  • Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 23.

    Jim Cummins

Frequent Co-Authors

Merrill Swain
Merrill Swain University of Toronto
Fred Genesee
Fred Genesee McGill University
Adam Winsler
Adam Winsler George Mason University
Ofelia García
Ofelia García City University of New York
Jill Fitzgerald
Jill Fitzgerald University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andy Kirkpatrick
Andy Kirkpatrick Griffith University
Nancy H. Hornberger
Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania

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