This collection of papers demonstrates the role of the Intercultural Educational Partnership in the United Kingdom. It offers contributions from teachers, educationalists and academics in the field of second/additional language learning. The papers include: "Introduction: 'Learners' or 'Learned'" (Susan E. Shaw); "Second Language Pedagogy: A Value Free Zone?" (Constant Leung); "Accelerated Schooling for All Students: Research Findings on Education in Multilingual Communities" (Wayne P. Thomas and Virginia P. Collier); "Learning to Read in a Second Language: Fact and Friction" (Jim Cummins); "Lefteris Doesn't Go To School Any Longer" (Kostas Magos); "The Power of Babel: Collaboration and Empowerment (an extract)" (Viv Edwards); "'Mum, Let's Learn Together!': Some Examples of Parental Participation Using the Mother Tongue" (Joke Kypriotakis); "Teaching Academic Language to Pupils With EAL" (Carrie Cable); "A Holistic Approach to Second Language Assessment and Planning: Using and Developing the Full Repertoire" (Tim Parke); "Bilingual Teaching in a Russian-Finnish Class" (Anna Hirvoven); "Adaptation to Classroom Language" (Maria Pinzani Tanini); and "Teaching English as an Additional Language: Time For a Productive Synthesis" (Susan Jaine). (Contains 140 bibliographic references.) (SM)