Viv Edwards is Professor of Language and Education at the University of Reading. She is editor of the international journal "Language and Education," and her publications include "The World in a Classroom: Language in Education in Britain and Canada" (with Angela Redfern, 1992), "The Other Languages: A Guide to Multilingual Classrooms" (1996), and "The Power of Babel: Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms" (1998).