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Program Director - English Applied Linguistics (Department of English)
SLAT Areas of Specialization: Instructional Dimensions of L2 Learning, Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning, Technology in Second Language Teaching Minor/Certificate
Jon Reinhardt teaches courses for English undergraduate, MATESL graduate, and SLAT PhD graduate students, primarily focused on teaching languages with technology, teaching English as a foreign language, and English grammar. His research interests lie in the relationship between technological change and the theory and practice of technology-enhanced second and foreign language pedagogy, especially with emergent technologies like social media and digital gaming.
He was the recipient of a 2023 Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and collaborate at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany on game-based language learning.
He is the director of the Clarify Initiative, a curricular resource project to raise critical language awareness of how grammar is used in rhetoric, propaganda, and disinformation.
He sits on the editorial boards of CALICO Journal and Language Learning and Technology, for which he serves as an Associate Editor. He most recently served as President of the Computer Assisted Language Instructional Consortium from July 2023 to July 2025.