Introduction -- Current multilingualism: A new linguistic dispensation -- I Language teaching and language learning -- 1 Global English: Central or Atypical Form of SLA? -- 2 Faraway, so close: Trilingualism in the Basque Autonomous Community and Malta from a socio-educational perspective -- 3 Issues in all-Irish education: Strengthening the case for comparative immersion -- 4 Informal bilingual acquisition: Dynamic spaces for language education -- II Social aspects of current multilingualism -- 5 Minority language use in Ireland: The time dimension -- 6 Mapping increasing linguistic diversity in multicultural Europe and abroad -- 7 Multilingual attitudes and attitudes to multilingualism in Croatia -- 8 Emerging and conflicting forces of polyphony in the Berlin speech community after the fall of the wall: On the social identity of adolescents -- 9 Multilingualism in Morocco and the linguistic features of the Casablanca variety -- 10 Multilingualism in Sweden -- III Language Policy -- 11 Language planning for a decimated and often forgotten non-territorial tongue -- 12 Endangered languages and endangered archives in the Russian Federation -- 13 Linguistic quandary in multilingual Malaysia: Socio-political issues, language policy, educational changes -- 14 Managing language diversity in the Irish health services -- 15 Slipping between policy and management: (De)centralized responses to linguistic diversity in Ethiopia and South Africa -- Index.