Understandably perhaps, an emergent concept such as ‘New Speakers’ will take time to gain acceptance and generate a common core set of values and paradigmatic implications. I will be arguing that the time for excessive talk about what New Speakers could add to the repertoire should give way to two tendencies; first far greater collaborative and cross-contextual analysis of real-world experiences so as to feed into the second tendency, namely a pragmatic and politically-savvy push to embed programmes which assist New Speakers within official policies, whether or not they have the ‘New Speaker’ tag.