Paul D. Toth
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul D. Toth plays a role.
2022 Chapter 9. Grammar: Documenting growth in L2 classrooms Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods, Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura and YouJin Kim (eds.), pp. 207–232 | Chapter
Meaningfully assessing the effect of instruction on second language (L2) grammatical development requires research that credibly relates observed learner behaviors to relevant theories of language and language learning. After defining the role of grammar in meaningful language use, this chapter… read more
2020 Chapter 3. Languaging and grammatical terminology: Expressing linguistic concepts while co-constructing understandings Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies, Suzuki, Wataru and Neomy Storch (eds.), pp. 67–90 | Chapter
This paper documents how U.S. high school learners in a third-year L2 Spanish class (N = 17) formulated explicit understandings of the pronoun se through languaging over 3 lessons. Following Adair-Hauck & Donato (2016), each lesson engaged learners in a guided inductive analysis by first… read more
2016 11. Small-group meta-analytic talk and Spanish L2 development Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning: Pedagogical potential and research agenda, Sato, Masatoshi and Susan Ballinger (eds.), pp. 291–316 | Article
In this chapter, we examine the meta-analytic talk of nine adolescent L2 Spanish learners and their subsequent accuracy on a grammaticality judgment task, with the pronoun se as an instructional target. Data come from a U.S. high school during three 90-minute lessons, where learners… read more
2013 5. Building explicit L2 Spanish knowledge through guided induction in small group and whole class interaction Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts, McDonough, Kim and Alison Mackey (eds.), pp. 89–108 | Chapter
This chapter explores interactions among American high school learners of L2 Spanish during three lessons on the pronominal clitic se which were designed to promote grammatical consciousness-raising through guided induction. Following Adair-Hauck, Donato, and Cumo-Johanssen (2010), each lesson… read more