Scott Despain
Assoc Professor
Associate Department Head
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Withers Hall 319
Bio
Associate Department Head and French Minor Advisor
Projects
- Large Enrollment Language Classes
- Personal pronouns of address in Costa Rica
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Training
Website
faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/despain/
Office Hours
- See Homepage
Education
Ph.D. Instruction of Hispanic Language and Literature Indiana University 1997
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)