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Learning Spanish Grammar Through Everyday Conversational Comics helps students learn the most challenging Spanish grammar concepts and apply them in real-life situations. The text uses comics containing catchy and colorful graphics, humor, and contextualized short conversations on a wide variety of topics to enhance comprehension and keep learners motivated and engaged. The text provides students with a collection of pedagogical grammar rules and contextualized examples to encourage rule- and exemplar-based learning. It offers students an array of examples in context to help them develop a clearer understanding of Spanish language use and apply what they learn to new situations. Grammatical rules and explanations help readers activate their existing knowledge and also produce new utterances. The comics included throughout the text serve as both examples and attainment goals to make learning more relevant, purposeful, and enjoyable. Within each chapter, activities support students' concept formation, concept clarification, mental decision steps, hands-on learning, and creative self-expression. Developed to enhance comprehension and further students' speaking and writing abilities, Learning Spanish Grammar Through Everyday Conversational Comics is an ideal resource for intermediate and advanced courses in Spanish.

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The significance of this book lies in its innovative and cutting-edge approaches to well-known problematic aspects of Spanish grammar. The book moves away from the traditional treatise of analyzing and presenting Spanish grammar in decontextualized sentences to one rooted in original and multiple authentic contexts, thus linking language use to contexts. Additionally, it provides theoretically driven and empirically supported tasks to promote deeper processing on the part of the learner. Therefore, I can envision its contributions to both the classroom setting and the field of applied linguistics, specifically second language acquisition. - Ronald P. Leow, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Director of Spanish Language Instruction, Director of Graduate Studies - Linguistics, Director of the Spanish Language Institute, Georgetown University

The significance of this book lies in its innovative and cutting-edge approaches to well-known problematic aspects of Spanish grammar. The book moves away from the traditional treatise of analyzing and presenting Spanish grammar in decontextualized sentences to one rooted in original and multiple authentic contexts, thus linking language use to contexts. Additionally, it provides theoretically driven and empirically supported tasks to promote deeper processing on the part of the learner. Therefore, I can envision its contributions to both the classroom setting and the field of applied linguistics, specifically second language acquisition. Ronald P. Leow, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Director of Spanish Language Instruction, Director of Graduate Studies - Linguistics, Director of the Spanish Language Institute, Georgetown University

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Fenfang Hwu holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a professor in the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. Her research and practice interests include computer-assisted language learning, second language acquisition, and Spanish linguistics.

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