About

Jeffrey Reaser is a Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he serves as the Director of Undergraduate Programs and Undergraduate Advising. He coordinates the secondary English education program and is the associate director of the Language and Life Project at NC State. His work extensively focuses on documenting, celebrating, and expanding knowledge of dialects and language variation, including developing the nation's first state-based dialect awareness program, Voices of North Carolina: Language and Life from the Atlantic to the Appalachians. Reaser has authored five books and over twenty academic articles and book chapters, with notable works including 'Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina,' which won the 2014 North Caroliniana Society book award, and 'Critical Language Pedagogy,' which received the 2020 ELATE Richard A. Meade Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. His research interests encompass language variation, dialects, sociolinguistics, and language education, and he has contributed to various media projects, including the Emmy Award-winning 'Talking Black in America' miniseries. Reaser has held leadership roles in linguistic societies, served as an editor for 'American Speech,' and has been recognized for his mentorship and teaching excellence at NC State.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Information Retrieval
• Philosophy
• Sociology
• Linguistics
• Zoology
• Biology
• Pedagogy
• Psychology
• Library science
• World Wide Web

Selected publications

• Introduction

  American Speech · 2023

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  • Computer Science
  • Information Retrieval
  • Computer Science

  Other| August 01 2023 Introduction Jeffrey Reaser Jeffrey Reaser North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2023) 98 (3): 318–321. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-10887746 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey Reaser; Introduction. American Speech 1 August 2023; 98 (3): 318–321. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-10887746 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Dialect SocietyAmerican Speech Search Advanced Search Copyright 2023 by the American Dialect Society2023 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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• Language Varieties and Education

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2020 · 3 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Linguistics
  • Sociology

  Written by a global team, this up-to-date introduction to applied linguistics helps students learn what it's like to do applied linguistics, and not just read about theoretical concepts. First, it provides frameworks for understanding both the shared characteristics of work in applied linguistics and the diversity of topics and analyses. Each chapter then highlights a topic area, covering key concepts, a specific project undertaken by the authors, and their personal reflections on entering the field. Hands-on analysis and other application activities also encourage students to test different skills related to each chapter. Finally, students are introduced to the tools they need to continue in applied linguistics: how to read and write empirical research, how to evaluate primary literature, and starting points for expanding their interest in specific subject areas. The authors provide examples from different geographical regions and languages to engage an international audience. At the same time, multilingualism, interdisciplinarity, and technology are integrated as themes within the text to reflect how these areas are now interwoven throughout applied linguistics.

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• Bahamian English: morphology and syntax

  De Gruyter eBooks · 2020 · 1 citations

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  • Computer Science
  • Linguistics
  • Computer Science
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• Mapping Linguistic Diversity in the English-Speaking Caribbean

  2019-10-23 · 3 citations

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• A Note from the Section Editor

  American Speech · 2019-05-01 · 1 citations

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• Mapping Linguistic Diversity in the English-Speaking Caribbean

  2019-01-01 · 17 citations

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• Bringing Critical Language Pedagogy to the Middle School Social Studies Classroom

  2019-01-15 · 2 citations

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  Scholars and educational bodies have long advocated for more sociolinguistically informed classroom approaches (CCCC/NCTE, 1974; Fasold & Shuy, 1970; Labov, 1969, etc.). Critical language pedagogy (CLP) (Godley & Minnici, 2008) is one recent method for meeting this challenge. In CLP, teachers guide students by examining relationships between language and power, with the goal that students understand and interrogate the creation and maintenance of standard language ideology: A bias toward an abstracted, idealized, homogenous spoken language which is imposed and maintained by dominant bloc institutions and which names as its model the written language, but which is drawn primarily from the spoken language of the upper middle class. (Lippi-Green, 2012, p. 67)

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• A constellation of sounds: Phonetic aspects of Appalachian Englishes

  2019-01-01

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• Language Awareness Programs:

  Channel View Publications eBooks · 2018-07-10

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• Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education

  2018-07-18 · 22 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Caroline Myrick

  North Carolina State University

  7 shared

• Walt Wolfram

  7 shared

• Kristin Denham

  Western Washington University

  6 shared

• Carolyn Temple Adger

  6 shared

• Daniel Schreier

  5 shared

• Donna Christian

  4 shared

• Benjamin Torbert

  3 shared

• Amanda Godley

  3 shared

Education

• PhD, English

  Duke University

  2006

Awards & honors

• 2014 book award from the North Caroliniana Society
• 2020 ELATE Richard A. Meade Award from the National Council…
• CHASS Outstanding Advisor Award (2009)
• CHASS Outstanding Teacher Award (2010)
• inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at NC Stat…