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Bugallo, Lucía; Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; Scheuer, Nora; Cremin, Teresa; Montoro, Virginia; Golinkoff, Roberta; Preston, Marcia; Wah Cheng, Doris Pui and Popp, Jill (2024). Children’s and mothers’ understanding of play and learning: Repertoires across five cultures. Learning and Instruction, 94, article no. 101981.

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Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; Hunt, Sally and Leedham, Maria (2024). Uncovering Discourses of Representation in Young Adult Fiction. In: New developments in school libraries: The latest research, 9 Oct 2024, Online.

Mukherjee, Sarah Jane (2024). Using genre to explain how children linguistically co-construct make-believe social scenarios in classroom role-play. Text & Talk, 44(5) pp. 649–669.

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Erling, Elizabeth J.; Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; Safford, Kimberly and Tugli, Fritz Makafui (2024). Ideologies of English and language of instruction in Ghana: Educator perceptions and pressures. In: Reilly, Colin; Chimbutane, Feliciano; Clegg, John; Rubagumya, Casmir and Erling, Elizabeth J. eds. Multilingual Learning: Assessment, Ideologies and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 99–122.

Cremin, Teresa; Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; Aerila, Juli‐Anna; Kauppinen, Merja; Siipola, Mari and Lähteelä, Johanna (2024). Widening Teachers' Reading Repertoires: Moving beyond a Popular Childhood Canon. The Reading Teacher, 77(6) pp. 833–841.

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Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; Hunt, Sally and Leedham, Maria (2024). Gendered characters and gendered worlds in best-selling, contemporary Young Adult fiction. In: 7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference #CADS2024, 17-19 Jul 2024, Innsbruck University, Austria.

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Leedham, Maria; Hunt, Sally and Mukherjee, Sarah Jane (2023). Mirrors and windows in Young Adult fiction. In: The twelfth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2023), 3-6 Jul 2023, Lancaster, UK.

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Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; McGreevy, Clare and Williams, Claire (2023). Celebrating reading. In: Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia eds. Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. London: Routledge, pp. 176–197.

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Erling, E. J.; Mukherjee, S. J.; Safford, K. and Tugli, F. M. (2023). Ideologies of English and economic development: The influence on medium of instruction polices in Ghana. In: Reilly, C.; Chimbutane, F.; Clegg, J.; Rubagumya, C. and Erling, E. J. eds. Multilingual Learning: Assessment, Ideologies and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Routledge (In Press).

Mukherjee, Sarah J.; Bugallo, Lucía; Scheuer, Nora; Cremin, Teresa; Montoro, Virginia; Ferrero, Martha; Preston, Marcia; Cheng, Doris; Golinkoff, Roberta and Popp, Jill (2023). Conceptions of play by children in five countries: towards an understanding of playfulness (Las concepciones acerca del juego de niños de cinco países: hacia un mejor conocimiento de la actividad lúdica). Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 46(1) pp. 109–153.

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Aerila, Juli-Anna; Kauppinen, Merja; Cremin, Teresa; Siipola, Mari; Mukherjee, Sarah Jane and Lahteela, Johanna (2023). Student teachers as readers: the reading experiences and reading pedagogy of Finnish and British student teachers. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 48(9) pp. 86–99.

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Berry, Margaret and Mukherjee, Sarah Jane (2022). Exchange Structure: Refinements to the model through a study of multiparty discourse of 4 to 5 year-old children. Functions of Language, 29(3) pp. 253–273.

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Mukherjee, Sarah Jane and Charlesworth, Richard (2021). Towards hope, acceptance and overcoming adversity through Reading for Pleasure. In: The Applied Linguistics and Literacies Research Group (ALLRG) Seminar: ‘Beyond Reading for Pleasure’., 22 Jul 2021, online.

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Mukherjee, Sarah Jane (2021). Learning language, learning through language and learning about language: the case for role-play in the ‘Summer of Play’. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Mukherjee, S. J. (2021). ‘That girl, she hear what we talk’: provisional and ongoing consent in research with 4-5 year old children. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Mukherjee, Sarah Jane and Cremin, Teresa (2021). Readers, Texts and Talk: A Symposium for UKLA - Overcoming adversity through hope: Discussing picture fiction. In: UKLA 56th International Conference - We need to talk about Literacy: Why spoken language matters in literacy learning and teaching., Fri 2 - Sun 4 Jul 2021, Online.

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Mukherjee, Sarah Jane (2016). Children's Meaning Making In Classroom Role-Play At 4-5 Years: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Investigation. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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Mukherjee, Sarah Jane (2014). [Book Review] Faulkner, D. & Coates, E. (eds) Exploring children's creative narratives. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 14(4) pp. 562–566.

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