Center for Applied Linguistics
Center for Applied Linguistics
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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. One of the center's accomplishments was developing the TOEFL exam for non-native English speakers seeking higher education in the United States.
It collaborates with Georgetown University and George Washington University.
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