Research Interests

I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education (Applied Linguistics) program at Concordia University, located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), where I am training to become an applied critical sociophonologist.

I am interested in the sound of voices, specifically how the act of listening can open us to multiple perspectives: Are learners ‘hearing’ the whole picture of a language? Or is the classroom privileging certain voices over others? What is the cumulative effect on learners' perceptions of the target language?

Phonology tends to consider the act of listening as a primarily auditory experience, sensitive to input frequencies and mediated by neural processes. But what if the act of listening wasn't so disembodied?

My research aims to understand: (1) How learners navigate an environment bursting with dialectal and semiotic variation; and, (2) How this multi-modal perception can include sensitivity to the territories on which we use these languages on, Landguaging with the land. The teaching and learning of imperial languages (e.g., English, French, Spanish) involves confronting the allochthonous (i.e.., non-Indigenous) nature of these linguistic practices, and the historical and current effects it has on autochthonous (i.e., Indigenous) peoples and ecosystems. Landguaging involves making connections between language practices and the land on which these experiences take place, repairing our relationship to it.

As an instructor of two colonial languages, I create inclusive pedagogies that are multi-modal and plurilingual, inviting teachers and learners to consider the colonial history of English or French in “Canada”--a settler colonial state established by two European nations. It is hoped that through Landguaging, learners make informed decisions about how invested in the imperial language(s) they wish to be.

Finally, my research is shaped by my experiences as a woman raising a future generation, while tending to the two generations before me. It is also informed by my particular identity, which was largely engineered by the colonizing actions of British imperialists on the lands of Abya Yala (South America/West Indies). The work is, therefore, personal to me.

My research was funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture.

2025: PhD Education (Applied Linguistics), Concordia University

“Repairing Socioecological Relationships: Landguaging across borders with Parlure Games”

Supervisor: Walcir Cardoso; Committee members: Mela Sarkar and Diane Querrien

2016: M.A. Applied Linguistics, Concordia University

2013: Graduate Diploma in Teaching English as a second language, McGill University

2012: Certificate in French and theoretical linguistic studies, Concordia University

2005: Honours Bachelor of Arts in Literatures in English and Political Science, University of Toronto 

My specific research interests are:

  • Land-sensitive curriculum (ecopedagogy) based on plurilingual and multi-modal approaches

  • Critical ecological models of computer-assisted language learning and teaching

  • Plurilingual activities using high variability phonetic training methodologies

  • Sociophonological and multimodal aspects of dialect perception

  • Critical and inclusive pedagogies using land-based and arts-based approaches

Current member

Previous affiliations

  • 2017 - Concordia University's Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology - Education Makers

News & Upcoming Conferences

2025

Chung, R. (2025, May). Critical perspectives in language education and in language teacher education: “A Critical CALL for Ecolinguistics: Landguaging the Imperial L2 Classroom”. Accepted for Symposium at the CCERBAL, Ottawa, ON.

Chung, R. & Cardoso, W. (2025, May). Parlure Games: Outta the HVPT Lab and into the Ecological CALL Classroom. Accepted for Paper presentation at the CCERBAL, Ottawa, ON.

Chung, R. & Cardoso, W. (2025, May). Parlure Games: HVPT Technologies for Ecological Classrooms. Accepted for Paper presentation at the CALICO, San Diego, CA.

Chung, R., & Cardoso, W. (2025, March 25). Attuned to the chorus of colonial voices? Parlure Games: De/colonizing technology for imperial L2 classrooms. Accepted for Roundtable session: “Antiracism, Decolonization, and Intersectionality for Systemic Transformation (ADIST) - Educational Linguistics” at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO.

Cunningham, C., Chung, R., Georges, V., LaFontaine, J., MacDonald, R., Meunier, L., Personius, J., Ross, & C., Tourond-Bouvier. (2025, March 24). Relationality in research: kākikē māna kākikē. Accepted for Colloquium Presentation at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO.