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Direct linkToth, Paul D.; Gil-Berrio, Yohana – Language Learning, 2022
This study examines learner deliberations over their discursive plans during second language (L2) instructional tasks, which we call "intersubjectivity negotiation episodes" (INEs). We argue that these provide essential contexts for negotiations over L2 form-meaning mappings, known as "language related episodes" (LREs). Our…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Toth, Paul D.; Wagner, Elvis; Moranski, Kara – Applied Linguistics, 2013
This article documents how second language (L2) Spanish learners in an American high school formulated explicit grammar rules during three inductive lessons on the pronominal clitic "se." Following Adair-Hauck "et al." (2010), each lesson first presented a property of "se" within a narrative text, and then had learners inductively "Co-construct"…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Familiarity, Grammar, Spanish
Toth, Paul D.; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This paper compares explicit instruction in second-language Spanish with a control treatment on a written picture description task and a timed auditory grammaticality judgment task. Participants came from two intact, third-year US high school classes, with one experiencing a week of communicative lessons on the Spanish clitic "se"…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Pictorial Stimuli
Toth, Paul D. – Modern Language Journal, 2011
This study compares descriptive quantitative and qualitative data from 2 beginning, university-level second-language (L2) Spanish classes to demonstrate the benefits of teacher-led discourse organized as collaborative, whole-class tasks. In class, the teacher solicited target L2 forms through conversational questions to individuals with recasted…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cognitive Processes, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis
Toth, Paul D. – Language Learning, 2008
This study compares quantitative and qualitative results for task-based second language (L2) grammar instruction conducted as whole-class, teacher-led discourse (TLD) versus small-group, learner-led discourse (LLD). Participants included 78 English-speaking adults from six university classes of beginning L2 Spanish, with two assigned to each…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grammar, English, Native Speakers
Toth, Paul D. – Language Learning, 2006
This study addresses the role of output in second language (L2) acquisition by comparing processing instruction (PI) to communicative output (CO) tasks. Participants included 80 English-speaking adults from six university course sections of beginning L2 Spanish, with two assigned to each treatment (PI = 27; CO = 28) and two others comprising a…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Introductory Courses, Spanish
Peer reviewedToth, Paul D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Considers the role of instruction, second language (L2) input, first language (L1) transfer, and universal grammar in development of L2 morphosyntactic knowledge. Specifically investigates the acquisition of the Spanish morpheme "se" by English-speaking adult learners. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Universals
