Jacquelyn Schachter

Jacquelyn E. Schachter (September 21, 1936 – October 22, 2011)[1] was professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in 1971 from UCLA, with a dissertation entitled, "Presuppositional and Counterfactual Conditional Sentences."[2]

Career

Schachter taught at the University of Southern California from 1971 to 1991 before taking up a position at the University of Oregon in 1991. At Oregon she was the Director of the American English Institute and a Linguistics Department faculty until she retired in 1999.[3]

Research

Schachter's primary research field was second language acquisition (SLA), investigating the role of Universal Grammar in conditioning patterns of SLA. Her work showed a lasting concern with methodological issues in second language research. (See e.g. Schachter 1998).[4] She also had research interests in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics.[5]

Schachter contributed to the fields of TESOL and SLA by coediting two important volumes of readings, Robinett and Schachter (1983) and Gass and Schachter (1989). In addition, she edited a book series for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates entitled Second Language Acquisition Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.[5][6]

She was the editor of the conference proceedings for the international TESOL conferences of 1978–80 and the editor of the TESOL Quarterly from June 1978 to 1982.[5]

One of her daughters, Jana DeMeire, was lost in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998.[7]

Selected publications
  • Gass, Susan M. and Jacquelyn Schachter, eds. 1989. Linguistic Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press.
  • Robinett, Betty Wallace and Jacquelyn Schachter, eds.. 1983. Second Language Learning: Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, and Related Aspects. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  • Schachter, Jacquelyn. 1974. An error in error analysis. Language Learning 24, 205–214.
  • Schachter, Jacquelyn. 1988. Second Language Acquisition and Its Relationship to Universal Grammar. Applied Linguistics 9, 219–235.
  • Schachter, Jacquelyn. 1998. Recent research in Language Learning Studies: Promises and Problems. Language Learning 48, 557–583.

References
  1. "Jacquelyn E Schachter". Fold3. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  2. "Ph.D. Dissertations – Department of Linguistics – UCLA". Department of Linguistics - UCLA. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  3. "Jacqueline Schachter | Linguistics". linguistics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  4. "Jacquelyn Schachter Google Scholar citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  5. Bhatia, Tej K.; Ritchie, William C. (2012-11-05), "Schachter, Jacquelyn", The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, doi:10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1036, ISBN 9781405194730
  6. editors, Susan M. Gass, Jacquelyn Schac[h]ter, series. "Second language acquisition research : theoretical and methodological issues". 東京外国語大学附属図書館ＯＰＡＣ. Retrieved 2018-06-22.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  7. MITCHELL, JOHN L. (1998-09-05). "5 Families Mourn Swissair Victims". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
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