Toan Pham is a lecturer in TESOL and applied linguistics. He has teaching and research experience in both Australian and overseas environments. He has worked at UniSA since 2015, in roles of a tutor, lecturer and coordinator in Applied Linguistics in UniSA Justice & Society and especially in the TESOL area in UniSA Education Futures, delivering both on-campus and online core courses of undergraduate and Master degrees. Prior to coming to Australia, he worked as a tertiary TESOL lecturer in Vietnam, where his work was closely associated with school-based teaching and learning.   
His research interest areas include TESOL especially English Medium Instruction (EMI), Interlanguage Pragmatic Development, and Language and Culture in Education. His PhD research, completed in 2013, focused on Interlanguage Pragmatic Development of Vietnamese Learners of English as an Additional Language. He has been working collaboratively on several projects in EMI and Higher Education.
He is currently co-ordinating and teaching Learning English as an Additional Language (EDUC 5180), Theories and Theorists of learning and Development (EDUC 5220), Curriculum and Evaluation in TESOL (EDUC 5112), International Comparative Studies in Education (EDUC 5218), and Developing Languages Programs (EDUC 4205). He has also taught several other courses such as English for Academic Use in Australia (LANG 1052), Language in Society (LANG 1056), Intercultural Communication (LANG 1054), Research in Education (EDUC 5030) and English Language Studies (LANG 46).