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Merrill Swain
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Latest funding
- $79,865
Sociocultural perspectives on the output hypothesis: three contexts
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
- $69,141
Extending the output hypothesis: the roles of collaborative dialogue and metatalk in second language learning
SSHRC · 1999 · Principal investigator
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Sociocultural perspectives on the output hypothesis: three contexts
Principal investigators: Swain, Merrill K.
Keywords: second language learning; second language acquisition; French immersion; French as a second language (FSL); output hypothesis; bilingual education; second language pedagogy; collaborative learning; task-based learning
Extending the output hypothesis: the roles of collaborative dialogue and metatalk in second language learning
Principal investigators: Swain, Merrill
Keywords: Second language learning; french immersion; task-based learning; collaborative learning
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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