Research Interests
Experimental methods in linguistics
Bilingual phonetics and phonology
Heritage Spanish
Crosslinguistic influence
Language pedagogy and curriculum design
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Malacara, J. (2026). Practical Strategies for Developing Speaking Skills in Asynchronous L2 Courses. L2 Journal 18(1), 1-16. University of California, Berkeley. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wt6c9p7
Malacara, J. (2025). Influencia del Inglés en el Español de Herencia en los Estados Unidos: Transferencia Fonética y Variación Vocálica en Houston. Plurilinkgua 21(1), 4-28. https://plurilinkgua.org/volumenes/volumen-21/volumen-21-numero-1/
Book Chapters
Malacara, J. (Forthcoming). Acceso Léxico en Contextos Fronterizos: Evidencia de Bilingües Español-Inglés en Tijuana. [Copyediting]. Investigaciones Académicas en Enseñanza de Lenguas, Traducción e Interpretación. Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
Articles Under Review
Malacara, J. (2025). Phonetic Variation and Phonotactic Adaptation of the TL Cluster in U.S. Heritage Spanish. [Under Review]. Heritage Language Journal. Brill. National Heritage Research Center.
Conference Presentations
Keynote Speaker: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Brazos Chapter. Houston, TX, USA. April 25, 2026.
Title: "Rethinking Language Instruction in Higher Education: Integrating SOFLA and CLIL for Interdisciplinary Classrooms."
Guest Speaker: Continuous Professional Development Program for Language Teachers. Anáhuac University, Querétaro, Mexico. March 4, 2026.
Title: Reshaping Language Instruction in Synchronous Online and Hybrid Settings.
Guest Speaker: Continuous Professional Development Program for Language Teachers. Anáhuac University, Querétaro, Mexico. March 5, 2025.
Title: Practical Strategies for Language Instruction in Asynchronous Settings.
Presenter: XXIV SPAGrad Linguistics & Literature Conference. Arizona State University. Phoenix, AZ, USA. March 8, 2025.
Title: Adaptation and Maintenance of Rhotics in the Latin American Spanish of Houston.
Presenter: XXIV SPAGrad Linguistics & Literature Conference. Arizona State University. Phoenix, AZ, USA. March 7, 2025.
Title: The Influence of English on Heritage Spanish: Phonetic Transfer and Vowel Variation in Houston.
Presenter: 4th International Conference on Literacy, Culture and Language Education (ICLCLE). Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN, USA. October 27, 2024.
Title: Phonetic Variation in the Production of the ´TL´ Consonant Cluster in the U.S. Spanish.
Presenter: 1st International Congress son Applied Linguistics. Autonomous University of Nuevo León. Monterrey, Mexico. August, 28–20, 2024.
Title: Variación Fonética en la Producción de la Secuencia Consonántica ´TL´ en el Español de México y de los Estados Unidos.