DR. CASILDE A. ISABELLI, Associate Professor of Spanish (Linguistics). In 2001, she received her Ph.D. in Spanish Applied Linguistics with a certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her research concerns adult second language acquisition in the formal classroom and study-abroad setting, multilingualism, and pedagogy. At UNR she has taught and/or currently teaches: Teaching of Foreign Languages Seminar (FLL 703), Romance Applied Linguistics (FLL 455/655), Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (SPAN 441/641), Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (SPAN 312), and Spanish Composition (SPAN 305, 306). She developed the online (offered through Online and Independent Learning) and hybrid versions of Beginning Spanish (111 and 112). She is currently teaching both the online and hybrid SPAN 111 course. She also served as the director of the Basic Spanish Language Program from 2001 until 2010, when she took a sabbatical leave for research purposes. In addition to teaching at UNR, she has also taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, UIUC, the Universitat de Barcelona, and as a visiting Associate Professor at Sonoma State University. Finally, she has put theory to practice as a new co-author for the 9th edition of McGraw-Hill’s Puntos de Partida.
Dr. Casilde Isabelli
775-682-8917
isabelli@unr.edu
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