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Bio

Associate Department Head

Projects

• Spanish for Agriculture Studenets
• French Pronunciation Tutor App
• Large Enrollment Language Classes
• Personal pronouns of address in Costa Rica
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Training

Website & Office Hours

https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/despain/home

Area(s) of Expertise

Second Language Acquisition, Technology-assisted Language Instruction, Sociocultural Theory, Teacher Training, Distance Education

Publications

• Nurturing the human connection: Increasing student engagement and personal connection in an asynchronous language course , (2023)
• The changing system of Costa Rican pronouns of address , Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas (2016)
• A Model for Large-Enrollment Beginning Foreign Language Classes , ADFL Bulletin (2015)
• Auralog TeLL me More , Hispania (2005)
• EduOle Verbos en -AR, Verbos en -ER, Verbos en -IR , Hispania (2004)
• Achievement and Attrition Rate Differences Between Traditional and Internet-Based Beginning Spanish Courses , Foreign Language Annals (2003)
• Delivery Systems and Student Achievement , IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies (2002)

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