Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I English in Contact with Other Languages in the European Context: Sociolinguistic Perspectives -- 1 The Spread of English and the Growth of Multilingualism with English in Europe -- 2 English as a European Lingua Franca: Current realities and existing dichotomies -- Part II Issues in Third Language Acquisition -- 3 Research on Multilingual Acquisition -- 4 Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to critiques of the conversational/academic language distinction -- 5 The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition -- Part III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives -- 6 Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production -- 7 Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A contribution to the organisation of the trilingual speaker's lexicon -- 8 Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer -- Part IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives -- 9 Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia -- 10 Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System -- 11 The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on language teaching and language relations -- 12 Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland -- 13 Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals -- Conclusion -- 14 Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of learning English as a third language in Europe -- The Contributors -- Index