Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction and Overview -- 1. Who is Afraid of Bilingualism? -- 2. The Importance of Being Bilingual -- 3. Towards a More Language-centred Approach to Plurilingualism -- 4. Bilingual Education: Basic Principles -- 5. Bilingual Encounters in the Classroom -- 6. Language Planning: A Grounded Approach -- 7. Accepting Bilingualism as a Language Policy: An Unfolding Southeast Asian Story -- 8. Markets, Hierarchies and Networks in Language Maintenance and Language Shift -- 9. The Imagined Learner of Malay -- 10. Code-switching and Unbalanced Bilingualism -- 11. Code-switching: Evidence of Both Flexibility and Rigidity in Language -- 12. Rethinking Bilingual Acquisition -- Laudatio: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore - No Hyphen Please! -- Index