Prof. Dr. Rochelle Irene G. Lucas

Rochelle Irene G. Lucas holds the position of Full Professor while serving as the Dean of the Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education at De La Salle University-Manila. With an extensive academic background, she has made noteworthy contributions to the field, particularly in psycholinguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, second language acquisition, motivation, language anxiety, and alternative assessment. Her research has been featured in esteemed Scopus and ISI indexed journals.

Dr. Lucas further enriched her professional experience as a Fellow at the International Deans Course (IDC) facilitated by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) from 2010 to 2011. Her commitment to scholarly organizations is evident through her past presidency at the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) from 2012 to 2015 and her role as Secretary of the Comparative Education Society of the Philippines (CESP) from 2013 to 2017. As a Board member, she actively participates in various professional bodies such as the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), Philippine Social Science Council, Social Science Research Ethics Board (PSSC-SSERCB) and the DOST- National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) as its current Division 1 Chair.

Notably, Dr. Lucas also serves as a Field Contributor for Ethnologue, an international language documentation website. Recently, she is appointed as a CHED Technical Panel member for Foreign Languages. She successfully concluded a language documentation research project on Hanunoo Mangyan, generously funded by the DOST-National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). Simultaneously, she collaborated as a co-researcher in a three- year Erasmus Mundus project focused on Science teachers in the country.

In recognition of her outstanding contributions, Dr. Lucas received the 2021 Achievement Award for Division 1 (Governmental, National, and International Policies) from the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). Additionally, she holds the prestigious LSP’s Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education in 2022. Currently she is Fulbright Advanced Research and University Lecturing Program Fellow for AY 2024-2025 at Teachers College, Columbia University New York.