David Little is Fellow and Associate Professor Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His recent publications include The Linguistic and Educational Integration of Children and Adolescents from Migrant Backgrounds (2010).Constant Leung is a Professor of Educational Linguistics at King's College London, UK. His recent publications include English - A Changing Medium for Education (2012, edited with Brian Street).Piet Van Avermaet is a Professor in the Linguistics Department, Ghent University, Belgium and Head of the Centre for Diversity & Learning, Ghent University. His research interests include diversity and social inequality in education, multilingual and multicultural education, and language and the integration of immigrants.

• David Little, Constant Leung and Piet Van Avermaet: IntroductionPart I1. Jim Cummins: Language and identity in multilingual schools: Constructing Evidence-Based Instructional Policies2. Tracey Costley and Constant Leung: English as an Additional Language: Symbolic Policy and Local Practices3. Daniel Faas: Germany after the ‘Pisa Shock’: Revisiting National, European and Multicultural Values in Curriculum and Policy Discourses4. Rachael Fionda: Teaching English to Immigrant Students in Irish Post-Primary Schools5. Fiona Kearney: Inclusion or Invasion? How Irish Post-Primary Teachers View Newcomer Students in the Mainstream Classroom6. Bríd Ní Chonaill: The Linguistic Challenges of Immigration: The Irish Higher Education Sector’s ResponsePart II7. Bronagh Ćatibušić: Investigating the Development of Immigrant Pupils’ English L2 Oral Skills in Irish Primary Schools8. Patrick Grommes: Investigating the Linguistic Skills of Migrant Students in the German Vocational Education System9. Stergiani Kostopoulou: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Lexical Demands that Irish Post-Primary Subject Textbooks make on Immigrant Students10. Zachary Lyons: Assessing the Impact of English Language Support Programme Materials on Post-Primary Language Support and Mainstream Subject Classrooms in IrelandPart III11. Déirdre Kirwan: From English Language Support to Plurilingual Awareness12. Sven Sierens and Piet Van Avermaet: Language Diversity in Education: Evolving from Multilingual Education to Functional Multilingual Learning13. Nathalie Auger: Exploring the use of Migrant Languages to Support Learning in Mainstream Classrooms in France14. Nelson Flores and Ofelia García: Linguistic Third Spaces in Education: Teachers’ Translanguaging across the Bilingual Continuum15. Shelley Taylor: From ‘Monolingual’ Multilingual Classrooms to ‘Multilingual’ Multilingual Classrooms: Managing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Nepali Educational System16. Fie Velghe and Jan Blommaert: The Ecology of Mobile Phone Use in Wesbank, South Africa

Linguistic diversity is a reality in classrooms all around the world. This volume shows an impressive picture of research, policies and praxis which take account of this challenge and support the transfer of plurilingual abilities into linguistic capital. It is an excellent overview for researchers as well as students, politicians and other experts in the field.