Professor Elana Shohamy is Professor Emerita at Tel Aviv University. Her areas of expertise include language policy, multilingual assessment, immigration, linguistic landscapes, and language-human rights. She received the ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award in Language Testing (2010). Her recent publications include Developing Multilingual Education Policies (with Tannenbaum, Routledge, 2023). Professor Michal Tannenbaum is the Chair of the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on psychological and emotional aspects of immigration and minority experiences, including family dynamics, identity, and intergroup relations. Her recent publications include Developing Multilingual Education Policies (with Shohamy, Routledge, 2023). Professor Ofra Inbar-Lourie lectures in the Program for Multilingual Education, Tel-Aviv University. She has published widely on language assessment, particularly regarding language teachers' assessment practices and language assessment literacy. Her recent publications include Towards a Reconceptualization of L2 Classroom Assessment (co-edited with Poehner, Springer, 2020).

• Foreword Elana Shohamy, Michal Tannenbaum and Ofra Inbar-Lourie, Eds; Special Contribution: Bernard Spolsky, the Scholar, the Humanist Tim McNamara; Part I. The Language Policy Model: 1. Policy without management? Beliefs and practices in a theory of language policy Francis Hult; 2. Remembering Spolsky while revisiting language policy in the United States Terrance G. Wiley; 3. Wall, gate, or door: the status of English in Indian society and education Panchanan Mohanty; 4. The challenges facing the Arabic language in the twenty-first century Muhammad Amara; Part. II. Educational Linguistics: 5. Educational linguistics and social justice Nancy Hornberger; 6. Spolskyan lessons for educational linguistics today Ofelia García; 7. Bridging multilingualism and literacy as the foundation to language policy Anat Stavans, Eva Lindgren and Marie Stevenson; 8. The reconciliation process between language choice and contextual constraints Elite Olshtain; 9. The enduring influence of Bernard Spolsky on language testing Elana Shohamy and Ofra Inbar-Lourie; Part III. The Dynamics of Family Language Policy: 10. Family language matters in language policy Liz Lanza and Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen; 11. Intergenerational dynamics of transnational and transcultural family language policy: grandparenting and adult language and cultural brokering Li Wei and Zhu Hua; 12. Maimonides takes on translanguaging theory: a tribute to the legacy of Bernard Dov Spolsky Joel Walters, Shulamith Kopeliovitch, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman and Carmit Altman; 13. On the couch: family language policy through a psychological lens Michal Tannenbaum; Part IV. Language Revitalization, Migration, and Continuity: 14. Bernard Spolsky and an Educational Linguistics by, for, and with Indigenous Peoples Teresa L. McCarty; 15. Longstanding Jewish languages in 2025: endangerment and postvernacular engagement Sara Bunin Benor.

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Professor Elana Shohamy is Professor Emerita at Tel Aviv University. Her areas of expertise include language policy, multilingual assessment, immigration, linguistic landscapes, and language-human rights. She received the ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award in Language Testing (2010). Her recent publications include Developing Multilingual Education Policies (with Tannenbaum, Routledge, 2023). Professor Michal Tannenbaum is the Chair of the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on psychological and emotional aspects of immigration and minority experiences, including family dynamics, identity, and intergroup relations. Her recent publications include Developing Multilingual Education Policies (with Shohamy, Routledge, 2023). Professor Ofra Inbar-Lourie lectures in the Program for Multilingual Education, Tel-Aviv University. She has published widely on language assessment, particularly regarding language teachers' assessment practices and language assessment literacy. Her recent publications include Towards a Reconceptualization of L2 Classroom Assessment (co-edited with Poehner, Springer, 2020).

• Foreword Elana Shohamy, Michal Tannenbaum and Ofra Inbar-Lourie, Eds; Special Contribution: Bernard Spolsky, the Scholar, the Humanist Tim McNamara; Part I. The Language Policy Model: 1. Policy without management? Beliefs and practices in a theory of language policy Francis Hult; 2. Remembering Spolsky while revisiting language policy in the United States Terrance G. Wiley; 3. Wall, gate, or door: the status of English in Indian society and education Panchanan Mohanty; 4. The challenges facing the Arabic language in the twenty-first century Muhammad Amara; Part. II. Educational Linguistics: 5. Educational linguistics and social justice Nancy Hornberger; 6. Spolskyan lessons for educational linguistics today Ofelia García; 7. Bridging multilingualism and literacy as the foundation to language policy Anat Stavans, Eva Lindgren and Marie Stevenson; 8. The reconciliation process between language choice and contextual constraints Elite Olshtain; 9. The enduring influence of Bernard Spolsky on language testing Elana Shohamy and Ofra Inbar-Lourie; Part III. The Dynamics of Family Language Policy: 10. Family language matters in language policy Liz Lanza and Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen; 11. Intergenerational dynamics of transnational and transcultural family language policy: grandparenting and adult language and cultural brokering Li Wei and Zhu Hua; 12. Maimonides takes on translanguaging theory: a tribute to the legacy of Bernard Dov Spolsky Joel Walters, Shulamith Kopeliovitch, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman and Carmit Altman; 13. On the couch: family language policy through a psychological lens Michal Tannenbaum; Part IV. Language Revitalization, Migration, and Continuity: 14. Bernard Spolsky and an Educational Linguistics by, for, and with Indigenous Peoples Teresa L. McCarty; 15. Longstanding Jewish languages in 2025: endangerment and postvernacular engagement Sara Bunin Benor.

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Professor Elana Shohamy is Professor Emerita at Tel Aviv University. Her areas of expertise include language policy, multilingual assessment, immigration, linguistic landscapes, and language-human rights. She received the ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award in Language Testing (2010). Her recent publications include Developing Multilingual Education Policies (with Tannenbaum, Routledge, 2023). Professor Michal Tannenbaum is the Chair of the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on psychological and emotional aspects of immigration and minority experiences, including family dynamics, identity, and intergroup relations. Her recent publications include Developing Multilingual Education Policies (with Shohamy, Routledge, 2023). Professor Ofra Inbar-Lourie lectures in the Program for Multilingual Education, Tel-Aviv University. She has published widely on language assessment, particularly regarding language teachers' assessment practices and language assessment literacy. Her recent publications include Towards a Reconceptualization of L2 Classroom Assessment (co-edited with Poehner, Springer, 2020).

• Foreword Elana Shohamy, Michal Tannenbaum and Ofra Inbar-Lourie, Eds; Special Contribution: Bernard Spolsky, the Scholar, the Humanist Tim McNamara; Part I. The Language Policy Model: 1. Policy without management? Beliefs and practices in a theory of language policy Francis Hult; 2. Remembering Spolsky while revisiting language policy in the United States Terrance G. Wiley; 3. Wall, gate, or door: the status of English in Indian society and education Panchanan Mohanty; 4. The challenges facing the Arabic language in the twenty-first century Muhammad Amara; Part. II. Educational Linguistics: 5. Educational linguistics and social justice Nancy Hornberger; 6. Spolskyan lessons for educational linguistics today Ofelia García; 7. Bridging multilingualism and literacy as the foundation to language policy Anat Stavans, Eva Lindgren and Marie Stevenson; 8. The reconciliation process between language choice and contextual constraints Elite Olshtain; 9. The enduring influence of Bernard Spolsky on language testing Elana Shohamy and Ofra Inbar-Lourie; Part III. The Dynamics of Family Language Policy: 10. Family language matters in language policy Liz Lanza and Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen; 11. Intergenerational dynamics of transnational and transcultural family language policy: grandparenting and adult language and cultural brokering Li Wei and Zhu Hua; 12. Maimonides takes on translanguaging theory: a tribute to the legacy of Bernard Dov Spolsky Joel Walters, Shulamith Kopeliovitch, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman and Carmit Altman; 13. On the couch: family language policy through a psychological lens Michal Tannenbaum; Part IV. Language Revitalization, Migration, and Continuity: 14. Bernard Spolsky and an Educational Linguistics by, for, and with Indigenous Peoples Teresa L. McCarty; 15. Longstanding Jewish languages in 2025: endangerment and postvernacular engagement Sara Bunin Benor.

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