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  1. Towards a tempo‐spatial model of multilingual identity development: An exploration of the role of time and space in multilingual identity construction

    Article • Modern Language Journal, October 2025, Wiley

    Karen Forbes

  2. Promoting modern languages beyond the compulsory stage: exploring the relationship between school-level curriculum policy, GCSE uptake and attainment in England

    Article • Language Learning Journal, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  3. Willingness to identify: an exploration of the factors that influence secondary school students’ willingness to identify as multilingual

    Article • Language Learning Journal, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  4. Participative Multilingual Identity Construction in Higher Education: Challenging Monolingual Ideologies and Practices

    Article • Education Sciences, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Karen Forbes

  5. Higher education students’ conceptions of learning gain

    Article • Active Learning in Higher Education, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Karen Forbes

  6. ‘I feel like I have a superpower’: a qualitative study of adolescents’ experiences of multilingual identity development during an identity-based pedagogical intervention

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  7. Mapping school‐level language policies across multilingual secondary schools in England: An ecology of English, modern languages and community languages policies

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, January 2024, Wiley

    Karen Forbes

  8. Contextualising the temporal dimension in multilingual identity construction: A longitudinal Q methodological study with Chinese LOTE-learning public high school students

    Article • System, August 2023, Elsevier

    Karen Forbes

  9. Multilingual Identity in Schools: A Q Methodological Study with Chinese LOTE-as-L3 Learners in International and Public High School Contexts

    Article • Journal of Language Identity & Education, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  10. Language experiences, evaluations and emotions (3Es): analysis of structural models of multilingual identity for language learners in schools in England

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  11. Multilingualism, Multilingual Identity and Academic Attainment: Evidence from Secondary Schools in England

    Article • Journal of Language Identity & Education, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  12. Multilingual identity in education

    Article • Language Learning Journal, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  13. Developing a multilingual identity in the languages classroom: the influence of an identity-based pedagogical intervention

    Article • Language Learning Journal, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  14. Investigating EFL teachers’ gender-stereotypical beliefs about learners: a mixed-methods study

    Article • Cambridge Journal of Education, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  15. ‘It’s a plus rather than a must’: perspectives of mainstream teachers in China on the influence of advertised educational ethos in supplementary English education

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  16. Participative multilingual identity construction in the languages classroom: a multi-theoretical conceptualisation

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  17. Strategy development and cross-linguistic transfer in foreign and first language writing

    Article • Applied Linguistics Review, July 2018, De Gruyter

    Karen Forbes

  18. The role of individual differences in the development and transfer of writing strategies between foreign and first language classrooms

    Article • Research Papers in Education, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  19. The form and functions of newcomer EAL students’ speech in English: patterns of progression and communication in semi-structured interview dialogue

    Article • Language and Education, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  20. The knowledge base of teaching in linguistically diverse contexts: 10 grounded principles of multilingual classroom pedagogy for EAL

    Article • Language and Intercultural Communication, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes

  21. The impact of expanding advanced level secondary school students' awareness and use of metacognitive learning strategies on confidence and proficiency in foreign language speaking skills

    Article • Language Learning Journal, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Forbes