This edited book offers a new look at community and heritage languages schools around the world, providing a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of language education and cultural understanding in and beyond school contexts. Covering research and practice, the contributors survey the global landscape of community and heritage language schools and explore new developments in the field to understand the challenges the schools face and discuss the impact they have on their students and surrounding communities. Chapters address key topics including language development, academic achievement, professional development, learner identity and agency, online learning and teaching disruptions. Contributors highlight learners' voices throughout, with special attention to overlooked minority language communities and Indigenous voices.

Through this wealth of thorough and insightful analysis, the contributors of this book position students of community/heritage languages schools as citizens of a plurilingual world who are central to global change. Abounding with original research, innovative ideas and cutting-edge teaching practices, this book is ideal for courses on multilingualism and language and culture.

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1 Community/Heritage Language Schools Transforming Education: Beyond complementary, more than integration
2 Teaching and learning community languages in Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges, opportunities and innovations
3 Reimagining ‘language’, ‘community’ and ‘identity’ in community language learning
4 New possibilities for heritage languages within a reshaped language education landscape: Lessons from the critical connections multilingual digital storytelling project
5 Arabic heritage schools as sites of multilingualism and positive identity building in the UK
6 Leading community/heritage languages schools
7 ‘Progressing progressions’: Design considerations in the development of language learning progressions for community language learners
8 Teacher professional identities across sectors
9 “The school made me realise that all Chinese people are different”: Constructing interculturality and pupils’ identity in two community schools
10 Reasons and resistance: Parents’ reflections on community language education in Swedish and Vietnamese in Australia
11 Transnational Vietnamese parents as managers of heritage language education: The “how” of “what”
12 Confronting a monolingual mindset: Exploring pathways to accreditation for community languages teachers
13 Community language school teachers’ emotions and professional learning
14 Charting pedagogies for community/heritage language learning within a more unified, pluralist view of language and literacy education
15 Community language learning supported by religious and spiritual contexts
16 Religion in community language schools: The beliefs of Brazilian teachers in England
17 Case studies: Greek, Arabic and Tamil language schools
18 Parallel lines: Community/heritage languages schools and future research
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