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This volume, containing fourteen invited papers on foreign-language policy, starts off with a brief history of foreign-language teaching policy in the Netherlands. This historical outline is followed by four contributions of authors who once developed the Dutch National Action Programme (NAP) on Foreign Languages under the directorship of Theo van Els. The second section consists of five contributions written by experts from Germany, Israel, Finland and the United States, who reflect on the language policies adopted in their countries and on the international impact of the ideas developed in

Language policy. --- Language and languages --- Language planning. --- Planned language change --- Sociolinguistics --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Study and teaching. --- Planning --- Government policy --- Language policy --- Langues --- Politique linguistique --- Planification --- Els, Theo van --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching