Dr. Jeffrey Leo Reaser

Associate Professor

• Website: http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/reaser.php
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• Email: jeffrey_reaser@ncsu.edu
• Phone: 919-515-4176
• Office: Tompkins Hall 217
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Biography

Jeffrey Reaser is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. His primary appointment is in the secondary teacher education program (LTN) with a secondary appointment in linguistics. His research has focused on the development, testing, and distribution of materials designed to allow teachers to teach about language variation in public schools and in professional development settings. He served as Materials Developer for the Do You Speak American? Secondary School Curriculum (2005) and College-Level Curriculum (2005). With Walt Wolfram he is author of Voices of North Carolina: Language and Life from the Atlantic to the Appalachians (2005 [revised in 2007]), which includes a Teachers manual, student workbook, and online media.  Current projects involve expansion of the Voices of North Carolina curriculum in scope and distribution and developing psychometrically valid instruments for evaluating the language attitudes of students and teachers as well as the changes to these attitudes though education. He holds a Ph.D. in English-Linguistics from Duke University (2006) and an M.A. in English (2001) and B.A. in Secondary English Education (1999) from NC State University.

Interests

Expansion of the Voices of North Carolina curriculum in scope and distribution through a series of teacher workshops.

Developing psychometrically valid instruments for evaluating the language attitudes of students and teachers as well as the changes to these attitudes though education.

Education

• BA in English Education from NC State, 1999
• MA in English (Linguistics) from NC State , 2001
• PhD in English Linguistics from Duke, 2006