The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to research and distribute information regarding language and culture. The organization is headquartered in Washington, DC in the United States. It was founded as a private a non-profit by means of a Ford Foundation grant, with Stanford applied linguistics professor Charles A. Ferguson as its first director, on February 16, 1959. [1]
In its original incarnation CAL was closely related to the Modern Language Association [2], but it has since come to function independently.
It collaborates with Georgetown University and George Washington University.
External links
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- Linguistic Imperialism By Robert Phillipson Oxford University Press, 2000 ISBN 0194371468
References
- ^ Peng, Fred (2005). Language in the Brain. London: Continuum. ISBN 0826487017.
- ^ Phillipson, Robert (1992). Linguistic Imperialism. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0194371468.
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