The Brussels Centre for Language Studies (BCLS) is a research group within the Linguistics and Literary Studies department in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Research at BCLS addresses a broad spectrum of thematic strands. Language and Society includes topics related to language variation, language history, historical sociolinguistics, language change, language contact, multilingual and intercultural communication (including translation and interpreting), terminology, language interactions, bilingualism and code-switching. Language Learning and Education includes topics related to second language learning, language pedagogy, translator and interpreter training and multilingual education. Language, Brain and Cognition includes topics related to psycholinguistic research, neurolinguistic research in both healthy and clinical populations, as well as translation and interpreting research. Applications of research at BCLS include consultancy for private and public organisations in areas such as language and education policy, curriculum design, language teaching material development, language assessment, speech pathology and natural language processing.