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Overview

Kendall A. King is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with a notable focus on linguistics and language studies. King's work is characterized by investigations into multilingual education, second language learning, and language policy, as well as ecological aspects related to earth-surface processes.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

More specific subfields of King's research comprise:

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecology

The primary topics covered in their work are:

  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

King has contributed to several journals and publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
  • Foreign Language Annals
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Language Policy

Kendall A. King has recently authored the following papers:

  • "Promises and perils of positionality statements" (2024), published in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
  • "The neoliberal logic of state seals of biliteracy" (2020), published in Foreign Language Annals
  • "Language ideologies, language policies, and shifting regional dialect proficiencies in three Chinese cities" (2022), published in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • "Vertical accretion trends project doughnut-like fragmentation of saltmarshes" (2024), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "#workfromhome: how multi-level marketers enact and subvert federal language policy for profit" (2021), published in Language Policy

Frequent co-authors of King include:

  • María Cecilia Schwedhelm
  • Christopher J. Hein
  • Duncan M. FitzGerald
  • Ioannis Y. Georgiou
  • Zoe J. Hughes

King's book publications include one title:

  • Key Developments in Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (to be published in 2025 by Multilingual Matters eBooks)

Best Publications

  • Family Language Policy

    Kendall A. King;Lyn Fogle;Aubrey Logan-Terry

  • Bilingual Parenting as Good Parenting: Parents' Perspectives on Family Language Policy for Additive Bilingualism.

    Kendall A. King;Lyn Fogle

  • Language Revitalization Processes and Prospects: Quichua in the Ecuadorian Andes

    Kendall A. King

  • Family language policy and bilingual parenting

    Kendall A. King;Lyn Wright Fogle

  • Child Agency and Language Policy in Transnational Families

    Lyn W. Fogle;Kendall A. King

  • Language Ideologies and Heritage Language Education

    Kendall A. King

  • The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language

    Kendall King;Alison Mackey

  • Language Revitalisation in the Andes: Can the Schools Reverse Language Shift?.

    Nancy H. Hornberger;Kendall A. King

  • Language policy, multilingual encounters, and transnational families

    Kendall A. King

  • Authenticity and Unification in Quechua Language Planning

    Nancy H. Hornberger;Kendall A. King

  • Research Methodology in Second Language Studies: Trends, Concerns, and New Directions.

    Kendall A. King;Alison Jayne Mackey

  • Language problem or language conflict? Narratives of immigrant women's experiences in the US

    Anna De Fina;Kendall A. King

  • AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: PAPERS IN HONOR OF HENNING WODE

    Kendall A. King

  • Shaping the climate for language shift? English in Sweden’s elite domains

    E. Catherine Berg;Francis M. Hult;Kendall A. King

  • Ideology, agency, and imagination in multilingual families: An introduction:

    Kendall King;Elizabeth Lanza

  • OJIBWE LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION, MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY, AND FAMILY LANGUAGE LEARNING

    Mary Hermes;Kendall A. King

  • A Tale of Three Sisters: Language Ideologies, Identities, and Negotiations in a Bilingual, Transnational Family.

    Kendall A. King

  • Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties

    Kendall A. King;Natalie Schilling Estes;Lyn Wright Fogle;Jia Jackie Lou

  • "Sticking Points": Effects of Instruction on NNS Refusal Strategies.

    Kendall A. King;Rita Elaine Silver

  • Why Is This So Hard?: Ideologies of Endangerment, Passive Language Learning Approaches, and Ojibwe in the United States

    Kendall A King;Mary R Hermes

  • Research Methodology in Second Language Studies: Trends, Concerns and New Directions.:Invited Colloquium: Celebrating 100 Years of the Modern Language Journal - Reflecting on Challenges for the Language Studies Field in a Multilingual World.

    Alison Jayne Mackey;Kendall King

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy H. Hornberger
Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania
Alison Mackey
Alison Mackey Georgetown University
Elana Shohamy
Elana Shohamy Tel Aviv University
Carol Myers-Scotton
Carol Myers-Scotton Michigan State University
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Douglas W. Maynard
Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles

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