Jasone Cenoz is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain).  Her publications include Beyond Bilingualism: Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, co-edited with Fred Genesee (Multilingual Matters 1998).Ulrike Jessner is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Her publications include A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism: Changing Perspectives in Psycholinguistics, co-authored with Philip Herdina  (Multilingual Matters, forthcoming in 2000).

• Jasone Cenoz and Ulrike Jessner: IntroductionPart I English in Contact with Other Languages in the European Context: Sociolinguistic Perspectives1 Charlotte Hoffmann: The Spread of English and the Growth of Multilingualism with English in Europe2 Allan R. James: English as a European Lingua Franca: Current Realities and Existing DichotomiesPart II Issues in Third Language Acquisition3 Jasone Cenoz: Research on Multilingual Acquisition4 Jim Cummins: Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to Critiques of the  Conversational/academic Language Distinction5 Philip Herdina and Ulrike Jessner: The Dynamics of Third Language AcquisitionPart III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives6 Istvan Kecskés and Tunde Papp: Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production7 Ute Schönpflug: Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A Contribution to the Organisation of the Trilingual Speaker’s Lexicon8 Christine Bouvy: Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic TransferPart IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives9 Carmen Muñoz: Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia10 David Lasagabaster: Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System11 Siv Björklund and Irmeli Suni: The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on Language Teaching and Language Relations12 Jehannes Ytsma: Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland13 Tatiana Iatcu: Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian BilingualsConclusion14 Ulrike Jessner and Jasone Cenoz: Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Educational Aspects of Learning English as a Third Language in EuropeThe Contributors Index