Merrill Swain is a Canadian applied linguist whose research has focused on second language acquisition (SLA).[1] Some of her most notable contributions to SLA research include the Output Hypothesis and her research related to immersion education.[2] Swain is a Professor Emerita at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.[3] Swain is also known for her work with Michael Canale on communicative competence.[4] Swain was the president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in 1998.[5] She received her PhD in psychology at the University of California.[3] Swain has co-supervised 64 PhD students.[6]
^Reagan, Timothy (1985). "EVALUATING BILINGUAL EDUCATION: A CANADIAN CASE STUDY, Merrill Swain and Sharon Larkin. Clevedon, Avon, England: Multilingual matters LTD., 1982. Pp. 117". Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 7 (3): 354–355. doi:10.1017/S0272263100005593. S2CID 145225607.
^"OISE :: Merrill Swain :: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto".
^ abPerspectives on language as action : festschrift in honour of Merrill Swain. Haneda, Mari, 1958-, Nassaji, Hossein, Swain, Merrill. Bristol. 22 February 2019. ISBN 978-1-78892-294-4. OCLC 1075556039.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^Brown, H. Douglas (2007). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5th ed.). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education. pp. 219–220. ISBN 978-0-13-199128-6.
^"Past Presidents". American Association of Applied Linguistics. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
^Lyster, Roy (2019-12-31), Haneda, Mari; Nassaji, Hossein (eds.), "1. Pushing Immersion Forward", Perspectives on Language as Action, Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, pp. 11–26, doi:10.21832/9781788922944-004, ISBN 978-1-78892-294-4, S2CID 198804035, retrieved 2020-12-04
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