Jacquelyn Schachter

Jacquelyn Schachter (died on October 22, 2011) 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."[1]

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.[2]

Dr. 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).[3] She also had research interests in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics.[4]

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.[4][5]

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.[4]

One of her daughters, Jana DeMeire, was lost in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998.[6]

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. ↑ "Ph.D. Dissertations - Department of Linguistics - UCLA". Department of Linguistics - UCLA. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  2. ↑ "Jacqueline Schachter | Linguistics". linguistics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  3. ↑ "Jacquelyn Schachter Google Scholar citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  4. 1 2 3 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, retrieved 2018-06-22
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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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