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Sergio Loza

Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Office: 430 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm via Zoom only (email me for link)
Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness

Publications

BOOKS

Beaudrie, S. M. & Loza, S. (2023). Heritage language program direction: Research into practice. London, UK: Routledge. 

https://www.routledge.com/Heritage-Language-Program-Direction-Research-into-Practice/Beaudrie-Loza/p/book/9781032190013

EDITED BOOKS 

Beaudrie, S. M. & Loza. S. (2022). Heritage language teaching: Critical language awareness perspectives for research and pedagogy. London, UK: Routledge. 

https://www.routledge.com/Heritage-Language-Teaching-Critical-Language-Awareness-Perspectives-for/Loza-Beaudrie/p/book/9780367708412

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Zalbidea, J., Pascual y Cabo, D., Loza, S. & Luque, A. (in press). Spanish Heritage Language Learners’ Emotions in the Classroom: Exploring the Impact of Teacher-focused Factors. Studies in second language acquisition.

2. Cerrón-Palomino, A., Loza, S. & Vana, R. (2023). What pre and post Arizonian statehood newspapers tell us about subject expression. Languages.

3. Loza, S., Padilla, L., & Vana, R. (2022). “A critical analysis of Elite: Linguistic capital, ideologies, and marginalization.” In A. Sánchez-Muñoz & J. Retis (Eds.), Communicative spaces in bilingual context: Discourses, synergies and counterflows in Spanish and English (pp. 129-142). London, UK: Routledge.

4. Loza, S. (2022). Unmasking ideologically charged oral CF practices in a Spanish mixed classroom: Teacher and SHL student perspectives. Languages7(3), 1-20. doi.org/10.3390/languages7030194

5. Loza. S. (2022). Oral corrective feedback in the Spanish heritage language context: A critical perspective. In Beaudrie, S. & Loza, S. (2021). Heritage language teaching: Critical language awareness perspectives for research and pedagogy (pp. 119-137). London, UK: Routledge.

6. Beaudrie, S. M. & Loza, S. (2022). The central role of critical language awareness in SHL education in the United States. In Beaudrie, S. & Loza, S. (Eds.). Heritage language teaching: Critical language awareness perspectives for research and pedagogy (pp. 3-18). London, UK: Routledge.

7. Beaudrie, S. M. & Loza, S. (2021). Insights into SHL program direction: Student and program advocacy challenges in the face of ideological inequity. Language Awareness, 0(0). DOI: 10.1080/09658416.2021.1949333

8. Beaudrie, S. M., Amezcua, A., & Loza, S. (2021). Critical language awareness in the heritage language classroom: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a curricular intervention. International Multilingual Research Journal, 15(1), 61-81. DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2020.1753931

9. Beaudrie, S. M. & Loza, S. (2020). Spanish heritage education in the Southwestern United States: Fighting restrictive policies toward language maintenance in Arizona. In F. Salgado-Robles & E. M. Lamboy (Eds.), Spanish across domains in the United States (pp. 25-46). Boston, MA: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004433236_003

10. Loza, S. & Vana, R. (2020). Hola, my name is Carmen, who is this?- Language ideologies and dialect stylization in prank calls.” Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 18(2), 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/15427587.2020.1796484

11. Beaudrie, S. M., Amezcua, A., & Loza, S. (2019). Critical heritage language awareness in the heritage context: Development and validation of a measurement questionnaire, Language Testing, 36(4), 573-594. DOI:10.1177/0265532219844293

12. Loza, S. (2018). Spanish as a heritage language in the United States: A familial and academic struggle through the attitudinal and ideological standardization of language. In K. Sawchuk, O., Ursulesku & E. Trinkaus (Eds.), Transformation, Transgressions, and TrustOff Campus: Seggau School of Thought2 (pp. 29-40). Austria, Graz: Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft.  

13. Loza, S. (2017). Transgressing Standard Language Ideologies in the Spanish heritage language (SHL) Classroom. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, 1(2), 56-77. DOI: 10.2979/chiricu.1.2.06 

BOOK REVIEWS 

Loza, S. & Ochoa, V. (2021). Adult Minority Language Learning: Motivation, Identity and Target Variety, by Colin J. Flynn, 2020 (Multilingual Matters). International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.