Tag: mexican

• Children’s Book Review: My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

  A CHILDREN’S BOOK THAT HONORS CHICANX STUDENTS CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC HERITAGE It was an honor to write a blog post promoting Isabel Quintero’s book, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, for many reasons, but one of them is because I also grew up in Southern California. The illustrations, Zeke Peña, created resonated with me because they reflected […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  May 13, 2019

  Bilingual Product(s)

  agency, bicultural, bilingual, bilingual children, bilingual life, bilingualism, california dual language, Chincanx, culturally sustaining, gentrification, identity, immigrant, mexican, mexican-american, multicultural books, multilingual books, social positioning, spanglish, translanguaging

• I’m a Mamá Raising Language Warriors

  Language warriors are “… Spanish-dominant bilingual students [who] not only support English-speaking peers’ learning Spanish but also advocate for their marginalized monolingual Spanish-dominant peers. This language warrior role revealed problem solving, mediating skills, and advocacy, but such attributes are rarely recognized by academic assessments” (DeNicolo, 2010, p. 234). Below is a glimpse of MY little […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  October 2, 2017

  3rd generation bilinguals, Bilingual Education

  agency, bicultural, bilingual children, Bilingual Education, bilingual life, bilingualism, code-switching, dual langauge, identity, immigrant, language-in-use, mexican, translanguaging, two-way immersion

• Identities aren’t static.

  My mother is Mexican. Her mother is Mexican. Her father was Mexican. My father was Mexican. His father was Mexican. His mother is Mexican. My bisabuelos on both sides were Mexican. Their parents were, as far as I know, Mexican. Mexico is a five hour drive from where I live. I grew up eating Mexican […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  October 8, 2011

  Uncategorized

  bicultural, bilingual, identity, mexican, poem