Dr. Isabelli specializes in second language acquisition in the study-abroad context. Her book, Development of Spanish Linguistic Accuracy and Oral Communication Skills in the Study Abroad Context, focuses on the role that motivation toward the host culture plays on students’ ability and attitude towards creating extended networks with native speakers. She has also written on the development of oral communication skills abroad, study-abroad social-network implications for second language acquisition and ability to produce speech acts, on the benefits that computer mediated communication has regarding enhancing cultural acquisition, and on the development of Spanish noun-phrase gender agreement abroad and at home. Visit my website for more information: www.iwu.edu/~cisabell
Book
Articles
Acquisition of Spanish gender agreement in two learning contexts: Study abroad and at home., Foreign Language Annals (2010)
Estudiar en el extranjero: La influencia del contacto con hablantes nativos en el desarrollo de la habilidad de producir actos de habla. (with Clarissa Kastner), Proceedings of the 10th international symposium on social communication (2007)
Health perceptions of low-income, immigrant Spanish-speaking Latinas in the United States. (with Donna Hartweg), Hispanic Health Care International (2007)
The benefits of asynchronous computer mediated communication in enhancing cultural acquisition. (with Elizabeth Zeiss), Computer Assisted Language Learning (2005)
Development of oral communication skills abroad., Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad (2003)
Book Chapter
Study abroad social networks, motivation and attitudes: Implications for second language acquisition., Language learners in study abroad contexts (2006)
Spanish Study Guide
Second-Year Spanish II - Oral Expression, Reading and Composition: A Study Guide. (with Guillermo Irizarry) (2009)
Presentations
Observing census enumeration of Spanish-speaking households in the 2010 Census., U.S. Census Bureau (2011)
El desarrollo lingüístico de los estudiantes durante una estancia en el extranjero: Una ruptura de las expectativas tradicionales." [Linguistic development in the study-abroad context: A break from traditional expectations], Middlebury College Round Table (2010)
Linguistic development in the study-abroad context: What can we expect?, IIX Congreso Internacional UNINTERlingua Comunicación (2009)