Dalia Magaña
Biographic Data
| ID | 4088302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dalia Magaña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dalia |
| FAMILY NAME | Magaña |
| SIGNATURE | MAGAÑA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6878-2684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Emotion brokering in Latinx college students
Research on cultural brokering (i.e., interpreting cultural norms for others) indicates that some brokering practices (i.e., interpreting language) predict negative psychological adjustment. Recent research indicates that individuals also interpret emotions for others (i.e., emotion brokering). However, the associations between emotion brokering and psychological adjustment have yet to be reported. This investigation is the first to examine the a…
Navigating intercultural misunderstandings
The findings provide insight into a distinct form of cultural brokering. In addition, findings illustrate how cultural variation in emotion impacts daily social interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Amplifying Latinx Students’ Voices about Bilingual Experiences
This study amplifies Latinx students’ voices about their bilingual experience in a Spanish in the U.S. course. We use conceptual metaphor theory to analyze how students conceptualize their bilingualism and reinforce or resist present language ideologies. The data consists of 50 writing samples: 25 autobiographical narratives and 25 sets of blog commentaries. We found 356 language-related conceptual metaphors. The most common framing was Spanish a…
Pursuing Testimonial Justice
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), rooted in the more established tradition of Community-Based Participatory Research (Deeb-Sossa 2019), seeks to empower patients in determining the most appropriate healthcare options by including and amplifying their voices in every aspect of the research process. In this article, we report on the outcomes of a four-year PCOR engagement effort in the US Midwest that aimed to include and amplify patient v…
Building Confianza
Communicating with Latino/as in health care: language barriers and transcultural competence -- Psychiatric interviews as a genre and patients' narratives -- Hacer plática: small talk subgenres -- Register of the psychiatric interview: interlocutors, power, and solidarity -- Translanguaging in health care interactions -- Expressing verbal modality and other politeness strategies in psychiatric interviews -- Conclusions: Spanish and transcultural d…
Medical Spanish Standardization in U.S. Medical Schools
Medical Spanish (MS) education is in growing demand from U.S. medical students, providers, and health systems, but there are no standard recommendations for how to structure the curricula, evaluate programs, or assess provider performance or linguistic competence. This gap in medical education and assessment jeopardizes health care communication with Hispanic/Latino patients and poses significant quality and safety risks. The National Hispanic He…
Local Voices on Health Care Communication Issues and Insights on Latino Cultural Constructs
Structural issues in the health care delivery system can disproportionately affect language minority patients who require interpretation services. This qualitative study addresses the issues Spanish-speaking Latinos face in obtaining health care by examining the experiences of 25 Spanish speakers in California’s Central Valley, a medically underserved area. The following barriers to communication emerged in the findings: time-restricted interacti…
From pedagogy to communities
Research on Spanish heritage language pedagogy has flourished in the past few decades, revealing both challenges and successful models to address them. The discussion here will focus on some of these major challenges and models, specifically, heritage language assessment, language variety validation, biliteracy approaches, and connections beyond the classroom. Students enroll in heritage language courses to develop their language repertoires and …
Local Voices on Health Care Communication Issues and Insights on Latino Cultural Constructs
Structural issues in the health care delivery system can disproportionately affect language minority patients who require interpretation services. This qualitative study addresses the issues Spanish-speaking Latinos face in obtaining health care by examining the experiences of 25 Spanish speakers in California’s Central Valley, a medically underserved area. The following barriers to communication emerged in the findings: time-restricted interacti…
Navigating intercultural misunderstandings
The findings provide insight into a distinct form of cultural brokering. In addition, findings illustrate how cultural variation in emotion impacts daily social interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
From pedagogy to communities
Research on Spanish heritage language pedagogy has flourished in the past few decades, revealing both challenges and successful models to address them. The discussion here will focus on some of these major challenges and models, specifically, heritage language assessment, language variety validation, biliteracy approaches, and connections beyond the classroom. Students enroll in heritage language courses to develop their language repertoires and …
Medical Spanish Standardization in U.S. Medical Schools
Medical Spanish (MS) education is in growing demand from U.S. medical students, providers, and health systems, but there are no standard recommendations for how to structure the curricula, evaluate programs, or assess provider performance or linguistic competence. This gap in medical education and assessment jeopardizes health care communication with Hispanic/Latino patients and poses significant quality and safety risks. The National Hispanic He…
Local Voices on Health Care Communication Issues and Insights on Latino Cultural Constructs
Structural issues in the health care delivery system can disproportionately affect language minority patients who require interpretation services. This qualitative study addresses the issues Spanish-speaking Latinos face in obtaining health care by examining the experiences of 25 Spanish speakers in California’s Central Valley, a medically underserved area. The following barriers to communication emerged in the findings: time-restricted interacti…
Pursuing Testimonial Justice
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), rooted in the more established tradition of Community-Based Participatory Research (Deeb-Sossa 2019), seeks to empower patients in determining the most appropriate healthcare options by including and amplifying their voices in every aspect of the research process. In this article, we report on the outcomes of a four-year PCOR engagement effort in the US Midwest that aimed to include and amplify patient v…
Building Confianza
Communicating with Latino/as in health care: language barriers and transcultural competence -- Psychiatric interviews as a genre and patients' narratives -- Hacer plática: small talk subgenres -- Register of the psychiatric interview: interlocutors, power, and solidarity -- Translanguaging in health care interactions -- Expressing verbal modality and other politeness strategies in psychiatric interviews -- Conclusions: Spanish and transcultural d…
Amplifying Latinx Students’ Voices about Bilingual Experiences
This study amplifies Latinx students’ voices about their bilingual experience in a Spanish in the U.S. course. We use conceptual metaphor theory to analyze how students conceptualize their bilingualism and reinforce or resist present language ideologies. The data consists of 50 writing samples: 25 autobiographical narratives and 25 sets of blog commentaries. We found 356 language-related conceptual metaphors. The most common framing was Spanish a…
Navigating intercultural misunderstandings
The findings provide insight into a distinct form of cultural brokering. In addition, findings illustrate how cultural variation in emotion impacts daily social interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Emotion brokering in Latinx college students
Research on cultural brokering (i.e., interpreting cultural norms for others) indicates that some brokering practices (i.e., interpreting language) predict negative psychological adjustment. Recent research indicates that individuals also interpret emotions for others (i.e., emotion brokering). However, the associations between emotion brokering and psychological adjustment have yet to be reported. This investigation is the first to examine the a…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Business (2 works)