Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures, Tables and Images -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Symbols -- Introduction -- 1 Participation in Interaction and Language Learning: A Layered Approach -- 2 Language and Language Learning as Social Practice -- 3 From Bhutan, Uzbekistan and Berkeley to River City: Arrival Stories -- 4 Adults as Context-makers: Parents' and Teachers' Beliefs about Language -- 5 The Social Field of Classroom Three: Policies and Practices -- 6 Becoming Students, Becoming Speakers: Positioning in the Social Field of Classroom Three -- 7 Who Learned What? Three Perspectives on Success in Language Learning -- 8 Beyond English: Multimodal, Multilingual Repertoires at Work -- 9 The Edge Has its Advantages: Participation and Learning on the Periphery -- 10 Concluding Thoughts: Success Stories -- Appendix 1: Details about Conflicts that Brought Classroom Three Families to the United States and their Experiences with Resettlement -- Appendix 2: Detailed Methodological Information -- References -- Index