Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
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, Center for Global 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