Jonathon Reinhardt

Associate Professor, University of Arizona

Email: [email protected]

  • Ludic keywords: multiplayer, simulation, role play, interactive fiction, puzzles
  • Language keywords: narrative, interaction, language socialization, motivation, play styles & dispositions, learning strategies
  • Pedagogy keywords: simulation pedagogy, experiential learning, language awareness

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Profile

My research focuses on how we can fit gaming into our frameworks of learning and teaching language, and how those frameworks might adapt and benefit from our understandings of gaming. I’m interested in player-learner styles, dispositions, and agency, and how people β€œlearnfully game” in an L2. I want to build gameful immersive VR simulations for L2 learning.

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πŸ“° Publications

For an updated list of Jonathon’s publications, please see his homepage.