Linking Scolars

An International Language Policy Association

Language policy is a well established area of research: it preceded the establishment of AILA itself, there have been countless international conferences and meetings devoted to the topic, there are several journals providing outlets for the extensive research, and a great number of books have been published. But there is no international organization specifically concerned with the field. Our purpose is to create such an organization.

This site, lpren.org, will build links between language policy scholars worldwide. As an AILA ReN, we will assemble the resources to nurture such a group, co-ordinating activities and the potential for more formal development. LPREN will link geographically-separated projects and allow a broader view of what happens in our field. The lpren.org network is open to any AILA member conducting research in the various fields of language policy and management. Join LPREN today.

Linking Organizations

University Research

Consortium for Language Policy and Planning – University of Pennsylvania, USA

Onderzoekscentrum voor Meertaligheid – Katholieke Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Linguistic Minority Research Institute – University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Southwest Center for Education Equity & Language Diversity – Arizona State University, USA

language-policy.org, Language Policy Research Unit – EPSL, Arizona State University, USA

Canadian Centre for Linguistic Rights – University of Ottowa, Canada

Language Policy Research Center – Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Teaching Indigenous Languages – Northern Arizona University, USA

Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les activités langagières – Laval University, Canada

Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies – Teachers' College, Columbia University, USA

Heritage Language Project – Stanford University, USA

Centre de Recherche sur la Diversité Linguistique de la Francophonie – Université de la Haute Bretagne, France

Unit for Language Facilitation and Empowerment – University of the Free State, South Africa

National Foreign Language Center – University of Maryland, USA

Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research – University of Southern California, USA

Atlas Linguarum Europae – Universität Bamberg, Germany
 

Independent Research

Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée

Ethnologue – SIL International

Iatiku Newsletter – Foundation for Endangered Languages

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Terralingua

Center for Applied Linguistics

Multilingual Matters

Joint National Committee for Languages/National Council for Languages and International Studies

Ciemen

Language Futures Europe
 

Journals

Language Policy – Kluwer

Language Problems and Language Planning – Benjamins

Journal of Language, Identity, and Education – Erlbaum

Current Issues in Language Planning – Multilingual Matters

International Journal on Multicultural Societies – UNESCO
 

Please send links to the research sources you find most useful. They will be added to our list.