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Fabi�n A. Samaniego received his Bachelor of Arts from New Mexico State University and his Master of Arts from the University of Iowa. He taught four years at Utah State University before going to the University of California at Davis, where he served as Supervisor of Teaching Assistants and Coordinator of the first-year Spanish program for twenty-four years. A specialist in foreign-language pedagogy, Professor Samaniego has been a frequent presenter at foreign-language conferences across the country. He has coauthored four college texts and the AATSP Professional Development Handbook Series for Teachers K�16, Volume 1: Spanish for Native Speakers, and he is coeditor of Language and…  More Culture in Learning: Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers of Spanish.  Less

Thomas J Blommers, a native Iowan, studied political science and Spanish at the University of Iowa and the Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico and holds a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Iowa. He is currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Program Coordinator for the Spanish Masters program in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at California State University, Bakersfield. Professor Blommers specializes in second-language acquisition and is particularly interested in listening strategies and techniques. Other interests include 19th-century Peninsular literature and Hispanic-American culture.