Below are links to other groups related to language policies and education research and practices, locally in Hong Kong and across Asia, Europe and USA. Please click on each link to find out more information.
Name |
Affiliated Institution |
United Kingdom and Europe | |
The Language Policy Network (LPN) | Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use at Univeristy of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, Roskilde University and Aalborg University, Denmark |
EMI Oxford: Centre for Research and Development on English Medium Instruction | Department of Education, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit, (LPPRU) | University of Cardiff, United Kingdom |
Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) | University of Southampton, United Kingdom |
Research Collegium for Language in Changing Society (RECLAS) | University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
AThEME | Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
The Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) | The Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway |
Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe (MIME) Consortium | Includes 22 organisations from 16 different countries; co-funded by the European Union; based in University of Geneva, Switzerland |
European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe (ECML) | Council of Europe |
E-CLIL Project (CLIL: Content Language Integrated Learning) | Funded by the European Commission |
USA: Language Resource Centers (LRCs) at US universities, supported by grants under Title VI of the Higher Education Act (more details here) | |
Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC) | Center for Applied Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) | College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) | University of Minnesota, USA |
Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) | University of Oregon, USA |
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy (CERCLL) | The University of Arizona, USA |
Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC) | Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), USA |
Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) | College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, USA |
The Center of Language Education and Research (CLEAR) | College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, USA |
The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research (CULTR) | Georgia State University, USA |
National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC) | Ohio State University, USA |
National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA |
National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
National Resource Center for Asian Languages (NRCAL) | College of Education, California State University Fullerton, USA |
Other centres and bodies in USA | |
Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL) | Private, non-profit organization headquartered in Washington DC, USA |
Language Education Policy | The Division of International Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin China Initiative); follow up to the Shanghai Seminar on Language Education Policy organized by the Shanghai Innovation Office of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partnership with Shanghai International Studies University. |
UNESCO Languages in Education | (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) UNESCO |
SIL International (originally known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.) | Non-profit organization headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA |
International Consortium for Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE) | College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
Language and Life Project | NC State University, USA |
The Joint National Committee for Languages – The National Council for Languages and International Studies (JNCL-NCLIS) | Member-funded, nonprofit education policy association based in Maryland, USA |
The James R. Squire Office of Policy Research, The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) | The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), USA |
Asia | |
Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) | Education Bureau, Hong Kong |
Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
The inter-University Research Centre for Applied Language Sciences (iRCALS) | The Department of English of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Tsinghua University, China; and The School of International Studies of Zhejiang University, China |
Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research (CACLER) | Division of Chinese Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Chinese Language Teaching Development Centre | The Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Center for Chinese Linguistics | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education | Ministry of Education, China |
English Language Institute of Singapore (ELIS) | Ministry of Education, Singapore |
National Foreign Language 2020 Project (NFL2020) | Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), Vietnam |
Asia Multilingual Education Working group (MLE WG) | Founding members included: UNESCO, UNICEF, SEAMEO, Save the Children, SIL International, Mahidol University, and CARE; met as Bangkok Multilingual Education Working Group |
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA) | Mahidol University, Thailand |
National Multilingual Education Resource Centre | Funded by UNICEF; founded by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
Language Policy Research Center | Bar-Ilan University. Israel |