This volume showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous immersion programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education.

Merrill Swain: ForewordDiane J. Tedick, Donna Christian and Tara Williams Fortune: Acknowledgements Introduction to the VolumeDiane J. Tedick, Donna Christian and Tara Williams Fortune: The Future of Immersion Education: An Invitation to 'Dwell in Possibility'Section I: Practices in Immersion Program Design Siv Bjorklund and Karita Mard-Miettinen: Integrating Multiple Languages in Immersion: Swedish Immersion in FinlandWilliam H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kaman?: Insights from Indigenous Language Immersion in Hawai?i: The Case of N?wah? SchoolGareth Diaz Zehrbach: Two-Way Immersion Charter Schools: An Analysis of Program Characteristics and Student Body CompositionsSection II: Program Outcomes and Implications for Practice Kathryn Lindholm-Leary: Student Outcomes in Chinese Two-Way Immersion Programs: Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement, and Student AttitudesEster J. de Jong and Carol I. Bearse: The Same Outcomes for All? High School Students Reflect on Their Two-Way Immersion Program ExperiencesSandra Burger, Alysse Weinberg, Carla Hall, Parvin Movassat, and Amelia Hope: French Immersion Studies at the University of Ottawa: Program Evaluation and Pedagogical ChallengesSection III: Language Use and Assessment Practices in Immersion ProgramsPadraig O Duibhir: 'I thought that we had good Irish': Irish Immersion Students' Insights into Their Target Language UseMaggie Broner and Diane J. Tedick: Talking in the 5th Grade Classroom: Language Use in an Early, Total Spanish Immersion ProgramLizette Peter, Gloria Sly and Tracy Hirata-Edds: Using Language Assessment to Inform Instruction in Indigenous Language ImmersionSection IV: Policy and Practice in Immersion EducationPhilip Hoare: Context and Constraints: Immersion in Hong Kong and Mainland ChinaLisa Dorner: US Immigrants and Two-Way Immersion Policies: The Mismatch between District Designs and Family ExperiencesTara Williams Fortune: Struggling Learners and the Language Immersion ClassroomConcluding Synthesis Chapter for the VolumeFred Genesee: Reflecting on Possibilities for Immersion