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Merrill Swain

Merrill Swain publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Second Language Learning and Teaching, Multilingual Education and Policy and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.

World rank
#14,967
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#395
of 38,960
Works
45
Citations
627
Citations per work
13.9

What does Merrill Swain research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 25.0%Language and Linguistics: 25.0%Linguistics and Language: 22.5%Education: 7.5%other fields: 20.0%25%top field
Literature and Literary Theory25.0%Language and Linguistics25.0%Linguistics and Language22.5%Education7.5%other fields20.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory25% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics25% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language22% of their works
  4. 4Education8% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology8% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Merrill Swain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Sociolinguistics, Language Teaching, Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy and Translanguaging.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Policy162 topics
  2. Multilingualism162 topics
  3. CLIL91 topic
  4. Content and Language Integrated Learning91 topic
  5. Sociolinguistics92 topics
  6. Language Teaching82 topics
  7. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy71 topic
  8. Translanguaging71 topic
  9. Corrective Feedback61 topic
  10. Second Language Acquisition61 topic
  11. Language Contact21 topic
  12. Linguistic Borrowing21 topic
  13. Linguistic Historiography21 topic
  14. Saussure21 topic
  15. Academic Writing11 topic
  16. Discourse Analysis11 topic
  17. Dynamic Assessment11 topic
  18. Educational Psychology11 topic
  19. Metacognition11 topic
  20. Self-Regulation11 topic

Where does Merrill Swain work?

Merrill Swain's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Christian Studies, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Merrill Swain have?

Science Explorer counts 45 works and 627 citations for Merrill Swain, ranking #14,967 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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