Bilingual education / Jim Cummins.- Remedial or radical? : second language support for curriculum learning / Jill Bourne.- Mother tongue and mother tongue education / Sjaak Kroon.- The expansion of sign language education / Carol A. Padden.- Foreign language education in context / Michael Byram.- Standard language education in transition / Sigmund Ongstad.- Initial literacy : extending the horizon / Frances Christie.- Adult literacy / Mike Baynham.- Language education in Japan : the multicultural challenge / John C. Maher and Akira Nakayama.- Language education in the conflicted United States / Carlos J. Ovando and Terrence G. Wiley.- 'Modern foreign languages' across the United Kingdom : combating 'a climate of negativity' / Joanna McPake.- Language education in Australia : Italian and Japanese as symbols of cultural policy / Joseph Lo Bianco.- The languages of Spain and Spanish language education / Clare Mar-Molinero.- Language education in Russia / Georgii Khruslov.- Language education and 'nation building' in multilingual Malaysia / Maya Khemlani David and Subra Govindasamy.- Linguistic complexity and the 'three language formula' : language education in India / Amitav Choudhry.- Language education in Brazil : a focus on raising attainment for all / Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes.- Hamburg / Ingrid Gogolin.- Singapore / Anne Pakir.- Cape Town / Peter Plüddemann.