Merrill Swain is a Canadian applied linguist whose research has focused on second language acquisition. Her most notable contributions include the Output Hypothesis, also called the comprehensible output hypothesis, and her research related to immersion education. She is a professor emerita at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, is also known for her work with Michael Canale on communicative competence, and was president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in 1998. She received her PhD in psychology at the University of California.
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Merrill Swain is a Canadian applied linguist whose research has focused on second language acquisition (SLA).
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Merrill Swain is a Canadian applied linguist whose research has focused on second language acquisition (SLA).
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Developed by Merrill Swain, the comprehensible output (CO) hypothesis states that learning takes place when learners encounter a gap in their linguistic knowledge of the second language (L2).
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