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Research Interests

My work focuses on student learning outcomes and the critical analysis of the following: language community service learning, languages for specific purposes, language justice and public humanities. I also create curricular materials that reflect current research. My most recent work takes the form of autoethnography.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Teaching Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Affiliate, Siebel Center for Design

Recent Publications

Sánchez-Gilbert, L., Shehab, S., & Abbott, A. (2025). Examining the impact of human-centered design in the language curriculum: A new framework for medical Spanish. Foreign Language Annals. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.70006

Abbott, A. R., & Lear, D. (2018). Aprendizaje-servicio y aprendizaje comunitario. In The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: Metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646169

Abbott, A. R. (2018). Seemingly simple: numbers and the language gaps students bring to community organizations. Cuadernos de ALDEEU, 33, 143-157.

Abbott, A., & Martínez, G. (2018). Spanish for the professions and community service learning: Applications with heritage learners. In The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language (pp. 389-402). Taylor and Francis.

Abbott, A. R., & Martínez, G. (2018). Spanish for the Professions and Community Service Learning. In K. Potowski (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language (Routledge Spanish Language Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315735139-25

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