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

A case study of the factors in the development of Spanish linguistic accuracy and oral communication skills: Motivation and extended interaction in the study abroad context. (2004)
 

Articles

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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)
 

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Health perceptions of low-income, immigrant Spanish-speaking Latinas in the United States. (with Donna Hartweg), Hispanic Health Care International (2007)
 

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The benefits of asynchronous computer mediated communication in enhancing cultural acquisition. (with Elizabeth Zeiss), Computer Assisted Language Learning (2005)
 

Link

Development of oral communication skills abroad., Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad (2003)
 

Book Chapter

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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)
 

Language Learning Abroad: Acculturation, Integration or Both?, Midwest Modern Language Association (2008)
 

Acquisition of Gender Agreement in Two Learning Contexts, Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (2007)
 

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