Home > Workshop > Workshops > Speaker Introduction Speaker : Dr. Nina Spada Dr. Nina Spada is a professor at the University of Toronto where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in second language (L2) learning and teaching. Dr. Spada’s numerous publications include over 50 journal and book articles, as well as co-authoring the award-winning book How Languages are Learned. She is also on the Editorial Board of the journal Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press).