Marianne Turner is an Associate Professor in the Education Faculty at Monash University. She researches multilingualism and equity in education, with a focus on situated approaches to the leveraging of students’ linguistic and cultural resources in the classroom, and the integration of language(s) and content more generally.Bill Green is Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Campus, New South Wales. He has longstanding research interests in literacy studies and curriculum inquiry, with a particular focus on English curriculum history and theory, and has published widely in these areas.

• 1. Introduction: English, Language(s), and Australian EducationPart One 2. Exploring Context and Possibility in Education Through the Understanding and Undoing of Language 3. On Language and Hospitality: A Practice-Ontological Perspective4. English in Australia – A Multilingual Subject?5. Home Languages are Everyone’s BusinessPart Two6. Subject English, Multilingualism and Critical Cultural Studies: Relanguaging English Education in Australia towards Postcolonial Possibility7. Teaching Literature in the Contact Zone: Knowledge, Language and Meaning-Making in Plurilingual Classrooms8. From EAL Students to Multilingual Learners: Privileging Existing Language Knowledge in Australian Classrooms 9. Rethinking Digital Multimodal Composing by Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the ClassroomPart Three10. ‘Teachers as Co-Learners’ of Languages: Recurricularising Language and Literacy Learning as a Multilingual and Collaborative Endeavour 11. Bringing Reciprocal Multilingual Awareness to Australian Language(s) Education12. Teaching about Honeybees: Embracing Indigenous Language, Culture, and Content through ‘On Country Learning’13. Multilingualism and Intercultural Development: Transformative Identity within Languages Curriculum14. Conclusion: Multilingualism as Opportunity

“How and why language matters in and for (Australian) education – this book’s organising question – makes its publication timely and profoundly important, especially for a colonial-settler, migration-destination country such as Australia. The topics are comprehensive and essential reading for anyone interested in multilingualism and the opportunities it presents for schooling and education.”Margaret Kettle, Professor, Central Queensland University, Australia