Merrill Swain
Merrill Swain is a professor emerita of second-language education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.[1] She developed the output hypothesis. This idea about second-language acquisition says that learners cannot become very good at the grammar of a language only by taking in language and trying to understand it. They must also speak to learn.[2] Swain also worked with Michael Canale on communicative competence.[3] Swain was the president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in 1998.[4] She received her PhD at the University of California.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Merrill SwainOntario Institute for Studies in Education. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ↑ Ellis, Rod. The Study of Second Language Acquisition (2008). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 260–261. ISBN 978-0-19-442257-4.
- ↑ Brown, H. Douglas. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (2007). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education. p. 219–220. ISBN 0-13-199128-0.
- ↑ Past PresidentsAmerican Association of Applied Linguistics. Retrieved 11 November 2012.