On this occasion, number 3 of Verbeia opens the Linguistics section with an article by Juana María Anguita that is about English written skills and intended for assessing the level of written English in Primary Education. The article by Najlaa Kounitrate analyzes the translation of some locutions frequently found in three versions of Arabic of Pedro Páramo. It is a contrastive phraseological study of Arab and Spanish. The Literature section presents a very interesting analysis by Patricia Álvarez connecting Irigaray's feminist ideas with Magda, the protagonist of the novel In the middle of nowhere in Coetzee. The following article by Álvaro Manzano intends to conduct an innovative analysis of Rushdie's Satanic Verses, in addition to, in the author's words, 'debunking false myths about the novel'. Esther Muñoz, in the following study, discusses the mythical elements of The Ebony Tower and tries to prove that myths are patriarchal and that they contribute to women's submission. A magnificent work is that of Concepción Parrondo on the reality of poor whites in the southern United States in Dorothy Allison's work, A Bastard Out of Carolina. The fifth manuscript is that of Rocío Riestra on the dystopian heroine in Divergent. This section closes with a article by Mariángeles Rodríguez on “the censorship of body languages” in the Spanish theater in the seventies. In this issue we also have a review of Paula Albitre on the work of Araceli López Serena, Orality and scripturality in the recreation of colloquial Spanish.

I am deeply satisfied with the year 2017 as it has been especially interesting For Verbeia. We have published our first monographic, digital and printed and we are about to close the second for October 2018. We have already prepared the third issue that will be released in 2019. We are closing numbers and opening new projects, we grow with the help of an Unrivaled Editorial and Scientific team. There is a lot of effort and work, but also very excited every time we publish a new issue.

I hope this one is as successful as the previous ones.

Sonia Sánchez Martínez

Verbeia Editor