CALS Centre for Applied Language Studies/ Lárionad na dTeangacha Feighmeacha.

The Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), established in 1997, is the largest research centre in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Limerick and brings together members of faculty, postgraduate students and researchers from the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics as well as from other disciplines across the University. At CALS, we understand Applied Language Studies as being about applying language to real world contexts and issues. CALS provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and the development of research projects in applied language studies across a range of languages within the University as well as serving as a focal point for national and international links in this area. The title 'Applied Language Studies' is deliberate in that the focus and spread is multilingual and this is a very important dimension to the CALS identity. Researchers work in and on French, German, Spanish, Irish, Japanese, Catalan as well as World Englishes, with a strong focus on Irish English. Professor Angela Chambers was the founding Director of CALS (1997-2014). Professor Helen Kelly-Holmes is the current Director, and Dr. Liam Murray is the current Associate Director. CALS has 32 internal members and 26 external associates. There is a very lively postgraduate community made up of 27 PhD students from 10 different countries. Researchers in CALS are organized around three clusters: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]