astronomy

Jacquelyn Schachter

Jacquelyn Schachter is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Jacquelyn Schachter rather than just read about it. In short: Jacquelyn E. Schachter (September 21, 1936 – October 22, 2011) was professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Oregon.

Key takeaways

Jacquelyn Schachter belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Jacquelyn Schachter to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Jacquelyn Schachter from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Jacquelyn E. Schachter (September 21, 1936 – 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."

Career 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.

Research 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). She also had research interests in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics. 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. 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. One of her daughters, Jana DeMeire, was lost in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998.

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.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jacquelyn Schachter

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jacquelyn Schachter claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jacquelyn Schachter before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jacquelyn Schachter ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jacquelyn Schachter

In research: Jacquelyn Schachter appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jacquelyn Schachter in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jacquelyn Schachter is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1936 births, 2011 deaths, Applied linguists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jacquelyn Schachter outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Jacquelyn Schachter in simple terms?

Jacquelyn E. Schachter (September 21, 1936 – October 22, 2011) was professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Oregon.

Why does Jacquelyn Schachter matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Jacquelyn Schachter?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Jacquelyn Schachter.