ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a future vision of community/heritage language schools in the context of what is happening within the world of communication and schooling in general. The chapter moves beyond seeing community/heritage language schools as ‘complementary’ to public education. By addressing developments in literacy, especially the technologisation of literacy which is transforming how schools and community/heritage language schools operate, new lines of future development are envisaged which see a much more robust role for the future of community/heritage language schools. The other transforming factor is what we understand as multilingualism and both of these, new literacies and new multilingualism, will have a deeply shaping effect that influences how we imagine the structures that deliver education.
