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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]
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]
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]
- 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.
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