About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) and the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) at Concordia University. My work lies at the intersection of plurilingualism and critical language pedagogy, centering on my ecolinguistic theory of Landguaging—a framework conceptualizing language as a place-conscious practice embedded within socioecological systems. Through this approach, I investigate imperial patterns in second language education that inhibit language learners from engaging in dialogue with the land and practicing ecological attunement.

To operationalize these principles in classroom settings, my doctoral research involved designing interactive, plurilingual, land-sensitizing tools. Parlure Games is an ecopedagogical tool that bridges high-variability phonetic training methodologies with online mapping, allowing teachers to expose learners to regional varieties of English and French while facilitating critical discussions about their territorial sprawl. The design of Parlure Games won the Best Student Paper presentation award at the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) 2022.

To support educators in navigating these complex territorial conversations, I subsequently designed the Multimodal Autobiographical Landguaging Portrait (MALP). This ecopedagogical reflection tool uses arts-based methodologies to help teachers ground their plurilingual identities in the territories where they developed, heightening their environmental attunement. The piloting of this tool was nominated by the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics and won the 2023 Congress Graduate Merit Award from the Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences.

My doctoral research was funded by two doctoral scholarships: the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture and the Bourse aux doctorant(e)s en sciences de l’éducation from the Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur.

Currently, as part of the Bridging Divides research program, I am collaborating with land-based researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University. Our project, Rooting for decolonial Reconciliation and collective healing through land, story, and art at urban farms, aims to transform migrants’ experiences of disconnection from the land into relational accountability for Reconciliation.

Current Research Affiliations

2026 - Bridging Divides - Funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF), this collaborative research project between Toronto Metropolitan University (PI), the University of British Columbia, and Concordia University focuses on understanding the challenges and opportunities that migrant integration poses for Canada.

2022 - pē-kiyokētan - Inter-university collaboration. A space of mentorship and solidarity to support Indigenous Language Revitalization work within colonial and minority language education programs

2017 - McGill University's critical sociolinguistic research group, blog, and academic journal: Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity | Revue de langage, d’identité, de diversité et d’appartenance (BILD/LIDA)

2012 - Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance; Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics; American Association of Applied Linguistics

News & Upcoming Conferences

2027

Chung, R. & Querrien, D. (2027, April 16). Greening applied linguistics: Environmentally attuning imperial L2 education through arts-based inquiry. Paper accepted for virtual presentation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, GA.

Chung, R. & Cardoso, W. (2027, August). Landguaging imperialism: Land-focused approaches to teaching English and French pronunciation plurilingually. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Vancouver, BC.

Daniels, B., McIvor, O., Ratt, T., Fayant, R., Kennedy, D., Sterzuk, A., Cunningham, C., Meunier, L., Ross, C., Bennett, I., Custer, A., Griffith-Brice, M., Ntelioglu, B., Lafontaine, J., Chung, R., & King, A. (2027, August). Visiting as method: Indigenous and settler scholars in conversation. Symposia accepted for presentation at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Vancouver, BC.

Futro, D., Little, S., Fazzi, F., Küchler, U., Macleroy, V., & Chung, R. (2027, August). Multilingual eco-pedagogy: Imagining environmental sustainability otherwise. Symposia accepted for presentation at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Vancouver, BC.

2026

Recipient of the Sustainability Action Fund’s 2026 Special Projects grant for the Solidarity with the Soil research project.

Chung, R. (2026). Technology and decolonial language teaching. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20887

Chung, R., & Cardoso, W. (2026). Landguaging imperial classrooms: Critical ecopedagogies for plurilingual speaking. In P. Trofimovich, A. Bodea, T.-N. N. Le, R. Suzuki, & C. Teló (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (pp. 1–12). Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 2025. https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.22727

Chung, R. (2026). Landguaging. The SHIFT Journal: Letters for Communing with Home. https://www.concordia.ca/about/shift/journal/20260/love-letters-communing.html#rhonda-chung

Chung, R. & Cardoso, W. (2026, September). Landguaging Imperial classrooms: Land-based and plurilingual approaches to teaching English and French. Paper accepted for presentation at the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching.

August 12, 2026: Fauna and Flora workshops at Concordia University’s Science & Engineering: Environmental camps.

Chung, R. & Cardoso, W. (2026, May). Landguaging the imperial classroom: Critical ecopedagogies for plurilingual speaking practices. Paper accepted for presentation at the Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics, Edmonton, AB.

Chung, R. (2026, March 17). Landguaging imperialism through L2 teacher-reflection art: Environmentally attuning to land through plurilingual and land-sensitizing curriculum. [Webinar]. For REEAL seminar.