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, a theory of second-language acquisition which states that learners cannot reach full grammatical competence in a language from input processing alone, but must also produce spoken language output.^[2] Swain is also known for her work 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]

References

1. "Merrill Swain". Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
2. Ellis, Rod (2008). The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 260–261. ISBN 978-0-19-442257-4.
3. Brown, H. Douglas (2007). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5th ed.). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education. pp. 219–220. ISBN 0-13-199128-0.
4. "Past Presidents". American Association of Applied Linguistics. Retrieved 11 November 2012.

External links

• Merrill Swain at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education