Academic Journals: Refereed Papers (Selected: Since 2010)

• May, S. (2026). Linguistic justice and the politics of English(es). World Englishes

• Yaakob M F M., & May, S. (2026) Between policy and classroom reality: Teachers’ subjectivity on dual language programme implementation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

• Park, M Y., Ha, P. Jee, M J., & May, S. (2026). Popular culture, language learning, and (de)motivation: The experiences of Korean as a foreign language students in Australia and New Zealand. International Multilingual Research Journal

• Uekusa, S., Carlton, S., Nissen, S., Zimmerman, F., Marlowe, J., Ali, F., Asres, W., Elsayed, R. Chang, G., Geng, J., Gunasekera, D. H., Maeno, R., Tran, M., Zahedi, W., May, S., & Love, T. (2026). Overcoming and reinforcing linguicism? Language, power and critical reflexivity in a large multilingual research team. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

• Liao, J., Zhang, L., & May, S. (2026). English-medium instruction (EMI) language policy and implementation in China’s higher education system: Growth, challenges, opportunities, solutions, and future directions. Current Issues in Language Planning 27(2), 241-260.

• Park, M Y., Jee, M J., & May, S. (2025). Korean language learners’ motivation, remotivation, and demotivation: The Australian and New Zealand contexts. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

• May, S. (2025). Language rights as human rights. GlobaLex. https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/language-rights-as-human-rights.html

  Park, M. Y. & May, S. (2024). Linguistic discrimination in higher education: Experiences of North Korean university students in South Korea.  Language, Culture, and Curriculumhttps://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2024.2422354

• May, S. (2023). Linguistic racism: Origins and implications. Ethnicities, 23(5), 651-661.

• May, S. (2023). New Zealand is “racist as f**k”: Linguistic racism and te reo Māori. Ethnicities, 23(5), 662-679.

• May, S. (2022). Superdiversity and its explanatory limits. Sociolinguistica, 36(1-2), 125-136.

• May, S. (2019). Negotiating the multilingual turn in SLA. Modern Language Journal. Supplement 2019, 122-129.

• May, S. (2018). Surveying language rights: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

• May, S. (2015). The problem with English(es) and linguistic (in)justice. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy,18(2), 131-148.

• May, S. (2015). Language rights and language policy: Addressing the gap(s) between principles and practices. Current Issues in Language Planning,16(4), 355-359.

• May, S. (2014). Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia: Rethinking political theory and language policy for a multilingual world.Language Policy, 13(4), 371-393.

• May, S. (2014). Contesting metro-normativity: Exploring Indigenous language dynamism across the urban-rural divide. Journal of Language, Identity and Education,13(4), 229-235.

• May, S. (2014). Justifying educational language rights. Review of Research in Education, 38(1), 215-241.

• Trinick, T., & May, S. (2013). Developing a Māori language mathematics lexicon: Challenges for corpus and status planning in indigenous contexts. Current Issues in Language Planning,13(4), 457-473.

• May, S. (2013). Indigenous Immersion Education: International Developments. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Education, 1(1), 34-69.

• Hill, R., & May, S. (2013). Non-indigenous researchers in indigenous language education: Ethical implications. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 219(1), 47-65.

• May, S. (2012).Contesting hegemonic and monolithic constructions of language rights ‘discourse’. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 7(1), 21-27.

• May, S. (2011). The disciplinary constraints of SLA and TESOL: Additive bilingualism and second language acquisition, teaching and learning. Linguistics and Education, 22(3), 233-247.

• May, S. (2011). Language rights: The “Cinderella” human right. Journal of Human Rights,10(3), 265-289.

• Ratima, M., & May, S. (2011). A Review of Indigenous Second Language Acquisition: Factors leading to proficiency in te reo Māori (the Māori language). Mai Review, 1, 1-21.

• May, S. (2010). Derechos lingüísticos como derechos humanos. Revista de Antropología Social,19, 131-159.