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60
Citations
39479
World Ranking
1396
National Ranking
658

Overview

Ofelia García is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research contributions lie predominantly within the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. More specifically, their work spans several subfields such as Literature and Literary Theory, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, Education, and General Health Professions.

Their scholarly output centers on topics related to Second Language Learning and Teaching, Multilingual Education and Policy, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Global Education and Multiculturalism, Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, and Literacy, Media, and Education.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
  • Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
  • RELC Journal
  • Applied Linguistics Review
  • International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Their recent published papers are:

  • Rejecting abyssal thinking in the language and education of racialized bilinguals: A manifesto, 2021, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
  • Not a First Language but One Repertoire: Translanguaging as a Decolonizing Project, 2022, RELC Journal
  • Academic language and the minoritization of U.S. bilingual Latinx students, 2020, Language and Education
  • Translanguaging and Latinx Bilingual Readers, 2020, The Reading Teacher
  • 'Converse racialization' and 'un/marking' language: The making of a bilingual university in a neoliberal world, 2020, Language in Society

Some of the frequent coauthors collaborating with Ofelia García include:

  • Maite T. Sánchez
  • Ricardo Otheguy
  • Nelson Flores
  • Kate Seltzer
  • Li Wei

Best Publications

  • Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective

    Ofelia García;Hugo Baetens Beardsmore;Zeena Zakharia

  • Language, Bilingualism and Education

    Ofelia García;Li Wei

  • Translanguaging and Education

    Ofelia García;Li Wei

  • Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages: A perspective from linguistics

    Ricardo Otheguy;Ofelia García;Wallis Reid

  • Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education

    Ofelia Garcia;Li Wei

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

    Ofelia García;Jo Anne Kleifgen;Jim Cummins

  • The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning

    Ofelia García;Susana Ibarra Johnson;Kate Seltzer

  • Pedagogies and Practices in Multilingual Classrooms: Singularities in Pluralities

    Ofelia García;Claire E. Sylvan

  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students : Learning from Classroom Moments

    Ofelia García;Tatyana Kleyn

  • Chapter 8 Education, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in the 21st Century

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  • Negotiating Language Policies in Schools : Educators as Policymakers

    Kate Menken;Ofelia García

  • Emergent Bilinguals and TESOL: What's in a Name?.

    Ofelia García

  • From English Language Learners to Emergent Bilinguals. Equity Matters. Research Review No. 1

    Ofelia Garcia;Jo Anne Kleifgen;Lorraine Falchi

  • Theorizing and Enacting Translanguaging for Social Justice

    Ofelia García;Camila Leiva

  • Translanguaging and the Writing of Bilingual Learners

    Patricia Velasco;Ofelia García

  • Not a First Language but One Repertoire: Translanguaging as a Decolonizing Project

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  • Rejecting abyssal thinking in the language and education of racialized bilinguals: A manifesto

    Ofelia García;Nelson Flores;Kate Seltzer;Li Wei

  • Translanguaging in Bilingual Education

    Ofelia García;Angel M.Y. Lin

  • Plurilingualism and translanguaging: commonalities and divergences

    Ofelia García;Ricardo Otheguy

  • Translanguaging and Literacies

    Ofelia García;Jo Anne Kleifgen

  • Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Immigrant Youth in the Heights

    Lesley Bartlett;Ofelia Garcia

  • A translanguaging view of the linguistic system of bilinguals

    Ricardo Otheguy;Ofelia García;Wallis Reid

  • The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society

    Max Spotti;Ofelia Garcia;Ofelia Garcia;Nelson Flores

Frequent Co-Authors

Li Wei
Li Wei University College London
Joshua A. Fishman
Joshua A. Fishman Yeshiva University
Angel M. Y. Lin
Angel M. Y. Lin Simon Fraser University
Guadalupe Valdés
Guadalupe Valdés Stanford University
Teresa L. McCarty
Teresa L. McCarty University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Krashen
Stephen Krashen University of Southern California
David Lasagabaster
David Lasagabaster University of the Basque Country
Nancy H. Hornberger
Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania
Jim Cummins
Jim Cummins University of Toronto

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