Foreward : palmam qui meruit ferat / Robert B. Kaplan -- Making a difference in language policy agendas / Helen Wren -- The English language metaphors we live by / William Eggington -- The grown-ups know best : language policy-making in Britain in the 1990s / Jill Bourne -- Language policy in the USA : national values, local loyalties, pragmatic pressures / Mary McGroarty -- English language-in-education policies in Canada / Alister Cumming -- English and pluralistic policies : the case of Australia / Joseph Lo Bianco -- Why are we waiting? Languages policy development in New Zealand / Roger Peddie -- Social justice in the work of ESL teachers / David Corson -- The roles and responsibilities of ESL teachers within national language policies / William Eggington