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[Faculty]
[Affiliated Faculty]
[Staff & Advisors] [Emeriti]
 Dorothy
Chun's current research interests include: second language acquisition, phonology and intonation, reading comprehension, intercultural communication online, teaching and learning with digital media
“Although my Ph.D. from UC Berkeley is in historical Germanic linguistics, I have been exploring the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics ever since. My passions are the exploration of how second languages are learned and research on the use of technology to enhance the learning of language and culture. I am particularly interested in how we learn the rhythm and melody of languages other than our native language, the cognitive processes involved in reading a foreign language, and how we can further intercultural understanding through online exchanges with partners abroad. For several years, we have engaged in online intercultural exchanges between UCSB students learning German and students in Germany who are studying English. This ties in with my own interests in German sociolinguistics and in examining the different communication structures of German and American speakers. At the moment, I am also involved in an interdisciplinary project supported by a Mellon grant to study how technology can be used to promote learning in college classrooms in a variety of subjects.”
Her recent publications include:
•Discourse Intonation in L2: From Theory and Research to Practice (2002), Amsterdam: John Benjamins [with accompanying CD-ROM].
•“Come ride the wave: But where is it taking us?” CALICO Journal 24 (2007).
•“Fostering cohesion and community in asynchronous online courses” (with S. L. Tschudi and D. Hiple), In I. Lancashire (Ed.) Teaching literature and language online,(2007). New York: MLA.
•“CALL technologies for L2 reading” in L. Ducate & N. Arnold (Eds.) Calling on CALL: From theory and research to new directions in foreign language teaching (2006), pp. 69-98. San Marcos, TX: CALICO.
•“Technological advances in researching and teaching phonology” in M.C. Pennington (Ed.) Phonology in context, (2006), pp. 274-299. London: Palgrave
•“Collaborative cultural exchanges with asynchronous CMC,” (with E. R. Wade) in L. Lomicka and J. Cooke-Plagwitz, (Eds.) Teaching with technology, (2004), pp. 220-247. Boston: Heinle.
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