Who is afraid of bilingualism? / Hugo Baetens Beardsmore -- The importance of being bilingual / John Edwards -- Towards a more language-centred approach to plurilingualism / Michael Clyne -- Bilingual education: basic principles / Jim Cummins -- Bilingual encounters in the classroom / Peter Martin -- Language planning: a grounded approach / Colin Baker -- Accepting bilingualism as a language policy: an unfolding Southeast Asian story/ Gary M. Jones -- Markets, hierarchies, and networks in language maintenance and language shift / Li Wei and Lesley Milroy -- The imagined learner of Malay / Anthea Fraser Gupta -- Code-switching and unbalanced bilingualism / Georges L่udi -- Code-switching: evidence of both flexibility and rigidity in language / Carol Myers-Scotton -- Rethinking bilingual acquisition / Fred Genesee -- Laudatio: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore--no hyphen please! / Eric Lee