University Council of General and Applied Linguistics
Welcome to the home page of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics (UCGAL).
(www.linguistics.ac.uk)
AIMS OF UCGAL
The Council was established in 2009, to provide a unified voice on public policy matters for linguistics within the UK higher education community. UCGAL links together major learned societies and associations in the field, with the following aims:
- to promote research, teaching and learning, and scholarship in general and applied linguistics;
- to promote co-operation and co-ordination, and the sharing of expertise and good practice, between institutions, learned societies, professional associations and related bodies in the area of general and applied linguistics;
- to support and promote the health and sustainability of general and applied linguistics;
- to represent general and applied linguistics in the co-ordination and formulation of policies and their adoption by appropriate national and international agencies.
CONSTITUTION
Follow this link for a copy of the constitution (as a pdf).
MEMBER ORGANISATIONS
The learned societies and organisations who have acted as founding members for the Council are:
- Association for French Language Studies
- British Association for Applied Linguistics
- British Association of Academic Phoneticians
- British Association for Clinical Linguistics
- Forum for Germanic Language Studies
- Henry Sweet Society
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain
- Philological Society
- Poetics and Linguistics Association
- UK Cognitive Linguistics Association
- University Council of Modern Languages
- CILT/ National Centre for Languages
News, Documents
You can find various documents produced by, or discussed by, UCGAL by following this link.
Events
An experimental page giving information about recent and up-coming events of potential interest. Follow this link
Frequently Asked Questions
There is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Other Links
[There are no other links just now].
CONTACT:
For more information contact the chair, Professor Li Wei
University Council of General and Applied Linguistics
c/o Professor Li Wei, Chair
Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication
Birkbeck, University of London
30 Russell Square,
London WC1B 5DT
United Kingdom
Email: li.wei@bbk.ac.uk
This page is maintained by Doug Arnold (
doug -at- essex.ac.uk).www.linguistics.ac.uk
Last Updated: Wednesday 27 February, 2013.