Vol. 37, Issue 3 is Out Now!

The Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe is proud to announce the publication of its December issue, “Nuestras Voces: Bilingualism Across the Mediums.”

Our newest issue contains articles discussing a wide range of topics, including bilingual educator preparation, bilingual communities on TikTok, the effects of legislation on bilingual education in California, and a discussion on the distribution of the film Selena as well as the creative works of five talented poets.

Our issue opens with “De lo Sumativo a lo Formativo y Educacional: Un Análisis Crítico de las Evaluaciones de Competencia Lingüística Para Candidates a Educadores Bilingües,” a Spanish language article by Dr. Jordi Solsona-Puig (California State University, San Bernardino) and Dr. Fernando Rodríguez-Valls (California State University, Fullerton). In it, they analyze language proficiency assessments for bilingual educator candidates in California.

The second article in our December issue is “Language TikTok-ologías: Representations of Language Ideologies Among U.S. Bilingual Spanish-Speakers on TikTok” by Sarah Henderson (Arizona State University), which focuses on online community building within the Latinx community on TikTok.

Moving to a different medium, the third article for this issue is “The Marketing and Promotion of Selena” by Dr. Henry Puente (California State University, Fullerton). This fascinating article proposes that the lack of crossover success for the film Selena was the result of inadequate promotion, improper distribution, and ultimately, a fundamental misunderstanding of the Latinx community.

To close our Research section, Drs. Suzanne García (California State University, Monterey Bay), Fernando Rodríguez-Valls (California State University, Fullerton), Minhye Son (California State University, Dominguez Hills), and Verónica González (California State University, Los Angeles) layout how the “pendulum swing between… language as a problem and language as a right within bilingual education movements in California” (p. 63) acts as disrupting force in bilingual educational practices.

This issue, our Literature section is packed with poetry. First, Harold Moya’s “La Matanza: The Slaughter of Innocence” is the saga of a boy who experiences his first taste of morcilla and the loss that comes from it.

Next, we have a pair of poems from Elizabeth Dubberly (University of Georgia); her poems “Calendario Compartido con Leo, the Only Other Spanish Teacher at Peachtree Academy” and “Sugerencias de Compañeras Para Que no Sigas Perdiendo Embarazos” are part of a examining the bilingual teacher experience in Georgia.

To follow, poet Shontay Luna’s villanelle “Rojo Ceilo” relates the majesty of the natural world.

Deyanira Vielma (Loyola Marymount University) continues our Literature section with  a poignant poem, “Josefa: A Morally Deficient Siren,” which relates the story of a woman hanged in California.

Concluding our issue, returning poet R. Joseph Rodriguez shares three new poems in English and Spanish: “Sharbat Gula,” “Un Despertar/ The Awakening,” and “Las Llamadas/ The Calls.”

We at The Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe thank all the contributing authors for their tireless dedication and robust scholarship. We are proud to be part of this interdisciplinary contribution at the intersection of bi-/multilingual education research and the field of international and comparative-international education inquiry.

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