I am a doctoral candidate and graduate student advocate in Concordia University’s Department of Education (Applied Linguistics) in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. I research dialectal learning, specifically how territory affects language use. I also develop plurilingual, land-sensitizing tasks that help instructors and learners of imperial languages to connect their linguistic experiences to the territories where they occurred, a process that entails confronting the allochthonous nature of French and English in Canada and worldwide.
“Landguaging” is an arts-based self-reflection activity for teachers to relate to and discuss the lands where their language-learning and teaching events occurred. It is also an interactive and plurilingual pedagogy that uses mapping techniques to expose learners to multiple dialects (“Parlure Games”) and plants (The Dandelion Project) within their city and across the globe. These land-sensitizing activities were developed after discussions with my child, parents, and grandparents, parents regarding forced migration of our ancestors from Global South countries to the West Indies, and later to Canada.