Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions
Journal Articles
Narvaez Burbano, D., Matachana Lopez, C. (2026). Cuentos de Sábado as a Site of Community-Based Learning: Heritage Speakers as Agents of Language Socialization. International Multilingual Research Journal Matachana Lopez, C. (2026). Code-switching, Reggaetón, and Identity Negotiation Among Puerto Ricans in the Diaspora. Languages, (11) 3Matachana Lopez, C. (2025). Linguistic Discrimination and Resistance: Puerto Rican Youth Language Ideologies. Applied Linguistics Matachana Lopez, C. (2023). Linguistic Attitudes and Ideologies of Spanish High School Teachers towards Puerto Rican Spanish in Massachusetts. Hispania, (106) 3 453-471. Matachana Lopez, C., Narvaez Burbano, D. (2022). "10 palabras en español que has estado diciendo mal". Ideologías lingüísticas sobre el español en los Estados Unidos presentes en YouTube. Hispania, (105) 2 195-212. Conference Proceedings
Kim, S., Matachana Lopez, C., Nyman, A., Yu, K. (2020). “Creak in the phonetic space of low tones in Beijing Mandarin, Cantonese, and White Hmong” Presentations
Matachana Lopez, C. (2026). “"Not All of Us Come from the Same Place": Language, Power, and Resistance in the Spanish Classroom” Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Chicago Narvaez Burbano, D., Matachana Lopez, C. (2025). “Cuentos de Sábado as a Model for Community-Based Learning and Language Socialization for Latine Students” Presented at the 54th Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting Wichita, Kansas Matachana Lopez, C. (2024). “Examining heritage speakers' academic experiences with Spanish: Puerto Rican youth in Western Massachusetts” Presented at the LASSO (Linguistic Association of the Southwest) 53rd Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting San Antonio, Texas Narvaez Burbano, D., Matachana Lopez, C. (2024). ““Sábado de cuentos”: Fostering Positive Language Ideologies in Spanish-English Bilingual Children” Presented at the Heritages Languages Around the World 2 Amherst, Massachusetts Armstrong, M., Matachana Lopez, C. (2024). “Infusing culture and community into pronunciation instruction” Presented at the Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology Raleigh, North Carolina Armstrong, M., Matachana Lopez, C. (2023). “Teaching culture, community, and contours in the L2 pronunciation classroom” Presented at the LSA Institute Latinx: The Sociopolitics of Language Symposium Amherst, Massachusetts Matachana Lopez, C. (2023). “Linguistic attitudes and ideologies of Spanish High School teachers towards Puerto Rican Spanish features in Western Massachusetts” Presented at the National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language Cambridge, Massachusetts Matachana Lopez, C. (2022). ““It is important to know the academically expected pronunciation”: Linguistic ideologies of Spanish High School Teachers” Presented at the 51st Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting Cleveland, Ohio Matachana Lopez, C., Narvaez Burbano, D. (2022). “Voy a ayudar a que no suene tanto dominicano y lo entiendan por lo menos”: Raciolinguistic ideologies present in YouTube” Presented at the Third Symposium on Language Attitudes towards Portuguese, Spanish, and Related Language Online Matachana Lopez, C. (2021). ““Now it is more normalized, people do not try to speak so Castilian so no one can tell you are from a small town”: Linguistic ideologies and attitudes towards Asturian (“Ahora está más normalizado la gente ya no trata de hablar tan castellano para que no se note que seas muy de pueblo”: Ideologías y actitudes lingüísticas hacia el asturiano)” Presented at the University of California Riverside Society for the Analysis of cultural Topics and linguistic Identities N’Asturies Conference Online Matachana Lopez, C., Narvaez Burbano, D. (2020). ““Spanish Words You’ve been saying WRONG”: Language ideologies and standardization in Spanish in the U.S.” Presented at the 49th Virtual Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest Online Narvaez Burbano, D., Matachana Lopez, C. (2019). “Quichuas on the diaspora. Religious social networks effect on linguistic attitudes (Quichuas en la diáspora: el efecto de las redes sociales religiosas en las actitudes lingüísticas)” Presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Linguistic Attitudes Towards Spanish, Portuguese and Related Languages Amherst, Massachusetts Matachana Lopez, C. (2019). “Vowel metaphony in Asturias: The case of Mieres” Presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium El Paso, Texas 
