At the urging of the Japan Science Council, the United Associations of Language Studies was started in 2010 to provide networking, advocacy, and peer support for academic associations in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics in Japan. Today, there are 38 member associations, including five executive member associations. These executive members each take a turn running the UALS for a year.
From the beginning, JALT has served as one of these executive members and has chaired the executive steering committee twice, in 2015 and 2020. As the chairing association, JALT was responsible for organizing meetings and the annual symposium, looking after the running of the office, updating the events on the website, and keeping the books. Here are the other member associations with links to their websites.
There are many opportunities for collaborations between JALT chapters/SIGs and these organizations. Also, the UALS will provide up to 30,000 in financial support grants (5/year) for events such as a lecture or a conference organized by a member associations. If your chapter or SIG needs assistance contacting any of these organizations ot the UALS, please contact the Domestic Affairs Committee.
 
*Denotes an executive member association
(alphabetical order)
Arbeitskreis fur deutsche Grammatik (ドイツ文法理論研究会)
Association for Language and Cultural Education (言語文化教育研究学会)
The Association for Teaching English through Multimedia (映像メディア英語教育学会)
The Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan (日本中国語学会)
Dialectological Circle of Japan (日本方言研究会)
*The English Linguistic Society of Japan (日本英語学会)
Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (英語コーパス学会)
The Japan Association for Interpreting and Translation Studies (日本通訳翻訳学会)
Japan Association for Media English Studies (一般社団法人　日本メディア英語学会)
The Japan Association of College English Teachers (一般社団法人　大学英語教育学会)
The Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools (小学校英語教育学会)
Japan Association of Korean Language Education (日本韓国語教育学会)
Japan Association for Language Policy (日本言語政策学会)
The Japan Second Language Association (日本第二言語習得学会)
Japan Society for Historical Linguistics (JSHL) (日本歴史言語学会)
Japan Society of English Language Education (JASELE) (全国英語教育学会)
Japan Society of English Usage and Style (英語表現研究)
Japan Society of Korean Language Education (朝鮮語教育学会)
The Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies (日本記号学会)
Japanese Association of Second Language Acquisition (第二言語習得研究会)
The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences (社会言語科学会)
The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (日本認知言語学会)
The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (言語科学会)
*The Linguistic Society of Japan (日本言語学会)
The Mathematical Linguistic Society of Japan (計量国語学会)
Phonetic Society of Japan (日本音声学会)
The Phonological Society of Japan (日本音韻論学会)
The Pragmatics Society of Japan (日本語用論学会)
Sign Language Studies Japan (日本手話学会)
Sociētē Japanaise de Linguistique Française (日本フランス語学会)
The Society for Sports and Language (スポーツ言語学会)
*The Society for Japanese Linguistics (日本語学会)
*The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (公益社団法人　日本語教育学会)
The Society for Technical Japanese Education (専門日本語教育学会)
The Society of English Grammar and Usage (英語語法文法学会)
The Society of Japanese Grammar (日本語文法学会)
The Society for Research in Kunten Language (訓点語学会)