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:

1. to promote research, teaching and learning, and scholarship in general and applied linguistics;
2. 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;
3. to support and promote the health and sustainability of general and applied linguistics;
4. to represent general and applied linguistics in the co-ordination and formulation of policies and their adoption by appropriate national and international agencies.

Follow this link for a copy of the constitution (as a pdf).

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

You can find various documents produced by, or discussed by, UCGAL by following this link.

There is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

[There No other links just now].

For more information contact the chair, Prof Rosamond Mitchell.

University Council of General and Applied Linguistics
c/o Prof Ros Mitchell, Chair
School of Humanities/ Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
Email: R.F.Mitchell@soton.ac.uk

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