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5768
National Ranking
340

Overview

Nina Spada is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences. Within these broader areas, their work focuses especially on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Literature and Literary Theory, and Linguistics and Language.

Their main research topics cover areas such as EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition and Learning, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Student Assessment and Feedback, and Subtitles and Audiovisual Media.

Several recent papers authored by Nina Spada illustrate the scope of their expertise. Notable publications include:

  • In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA (2022), published in Modern Language Journal
  • Reflecting on task-based language teaching from an Instructed SLA perspective (2021), published in Language Teaching
  • Form-Focused Instruction (2023), published in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

Additionally, Nina Spada contributed to the paper titled "Focusing on Language and Content with Adolescent English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom" (2020), published in Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, in collaboration with Martha Trahey.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Patsy M. Lightbown and Martha Trahey.

Their publications appear across a range of venues, notably:

  • Modern Language Journal
  • Language Teaching
  • Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes
  • The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

Nina Spada has also contributed to book publications, with a recent title published by John Benjamins Publishing Company titled "The COLT Observation Scheme" (2024).

Best Publications

  • How Languages Are Learned

    Patsy Lightbown;Nina Margaret Spada

  • Interactions between Type of Instruction and Type of Language Feature: A Meta-Analysis.

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  • Recasts as Feedback to Language Learners

    Howard Ross. Nicholas;Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina. Spada

  • Focus-on-Form and Corrective Feedback in Communicative Language Teaching: Effects on Second Language Learning

    Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina Spada

  • Form-Focussed Instruction and Second Language Acquisition: A Review of Classroom and Laboratory Research

    Nina Spada

  • Input Enhancement and L2 Question Formation.

    Lydia White;Nina Spada;Patsy M. Lightbown;Leila Ranta

  • ONE SIZE FITS ALL?: Recasts, Prompts, and L2 Learning

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  • Instruction and the Development of Questions in L2 Classrooms.

    Nina Spada;Patsy M. Lightbown

  • Acquiring Vocabulary through Reading: Effects of Frequency and Contextual Richness

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  • Form‐Focused Instruction: Isolated or Integrated?

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  • Instruction, First Language Influence, and Developmental Readiness in Second Language Acquisition.

    Nina Spada;Patsy M. Lightbown

  • 4. The effectiveness of corrective feedback for the acquisition of L2 grammar: A meta-analysis of the research

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  • COLT Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching observation scheme : coding conventions and applications

    Nina Spada;Maria Fröhlich

  • Differences in the Communicative Orientation of L2 Classrooms

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  • A Response to Truscott's `What's Wrong with Oral Grammar Correction'

    Roy Lyster;Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina Spada

  • Beyond form-focused instruction: Reflections on past, present and future research

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  • An Innovative Program for Primary ESL Students in Quebec

    Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina Spada

  • Communicative Language Teaching

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  • Time and the Distribution of Time in L2 Instruction

    Laura Collins;Randall H. Halter;Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina Spada

  • Relationships between Instructional Differences and Learning Outcomes: A Process-product Study of Communicative Language Teaching.

    Nina M. Spada

  • Intensive ESL Programmes in Quebec Primary Schools

    Nina Spada;Patsy M. Lightbown

  • The Interaction between Type of Contact and Type of Instruction: Some Effects on the L2 Proficiency of Adult Learners.

    Nina Spada

  • INTERACTION RESEARCH IN SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS

    Nina Spada;Patsy M. Lightbown

  • SLA Research and L2 Pedagogy: Misapplications and Questions of Relevance.

    Nina Spada

  • Teaching and Learning L2 in the Classroom: It's about Time.

    Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina Spada

  • The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit form-focused instruction

    Nina Spada;Patsy M. Lightbown;Joanna L. White

  • Do They Know What They're Doing? L2 Learners' Awareness of L1 Influence

    Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina Spada

  • Learning English as a Second Language in a Special School in Quebec.

    Patsy M. Lightbown;Nina Spada

Frequent Co-Authors

Lydia White
Lydia White McGill University
Michael H. Long
Michael H. Long University of Maryland, College Park

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