Paul Toth
Paul D. Toth (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) joined the faculty at UW-Madison in Fall 2005 as an assistant professor of Spanish Education. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction (75%) and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese (25%), where he teaches courses on language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and Spanish linguistics. He is also an affiliated faculty in the Second Language Acquisition Program and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies center. Professor Toth’s research focuses on the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax (grammar) in second language classroom settings. Specifically, he has investigated the impact of various communicative and task-based approaches to grammar instruction on learners’ knowledge of Spanish pronouns and verb meanings. Recent publications have appeared in Hispania, Spanish Applied Linguistics, The Modern Language Journal, Language Learning, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. In 2002, Professor Toth received the ACTFL/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for research excellence.
