Simon Coffey is Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages Education at King's College London, UK. He is joint editor of the Language Learning Journal.

Ursula Wingate is Senior Lecturer in Language in Education and works in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London, UK.

PART 1: Changing rationales for language study

1. Navigating precarious territory: Teaching Turkish in Greek-Cypriot classrooms

Panayiota Charalambous, Constadina Charalambous and Ben Rampton

2. Language learning as opportunity across the life span

Simon Coffey

3. Foreign language teaching for citizenship development

Mairin Hennebry

PART 2: Foreign language study for global multilingualism

4. Not English but English-within-multilingualism

Jennifer Jenkins

5. 'Glocal languages': The 'globalness' and the 'localness' of world languages

Manuela Guilherme

6. L2 learning outside the classroom: new directions for research on intercultural interactions during study abroad

Rachel Shively

PART 3: Critical perspectives in the classroom

7. French language textbooks as ideologically imbued cultural artefacts: Political economy, neoliberalism and (self) branding

David Block and John Gray

8. The need for new directions in modern foreign language teaching at English secondary schools

Ursula Wingate and Nick Andon

9. Developing competence for French as a foreign language within a plurilingual paradigm

Nathalie Auger

PART 4: Innovations in policy and practice

10. Assessing the diverse linguistic and cultural repertoires of students of diverse languages

Angela Scarino

11. Embedding the assessment into the learning: a new direction for high-stakes speaking assessments

Martin East

12. Toward an educational policy for U.S. collegiate foreign language instruction:
    Curricular considerations

Heidi Byrnes

Afterword

Claire Kramsch