Centre for Applied Linguistics

Our centre

Co-Directors: Professor Andrea Révész and Professor Miguel Pérez-Milans

Our mission is to promote the IOE as a centre of international excellence in research and teaching in the broad field of applied linguistics, including:

• critical (socio/applied) linguistics,
• bilingualism and multilingualism/plurilingualism,
• second and additional language acquisition,
• language testing,
• language pedagogies,
• multimodal communication,
• linguistic ethnography,
• discourse and interactional analysis,
• health communication,
• professional/institutional communication,
• English as a global language,
• intercultural communication,
• literacy,
• corpus linguistics,
• language-in-education policy and practice,
• language and identity,
• language, gender and sexuality,
• language and space-making.

Aims

Our centre aims to:

• seek external funding for high-quality research and consultancy in the broad field of applied linguistics,
• foreground the work in these areas through high status publications as well as through conferences and seminars,
• develop research networks and partnerships with research teams nationally and internationally,
• build networks of interest across UCL and develop synergies between adjacent areas and forms of research,
• liaise with other research centres across UCL which also have an interest in broadly based applied linguistics,
• provide strategic leadership, expertise and support to those working in the area of applied linguistics,
• provide research input into the teaching programmes and doctoral supervision in areas of applied linguistics.

Image at the top: Richard Villalon via Adobe Stock.