Richard Schmidt (1941–2017)
was an American linguist and professor in the Department of Language Studies,
University of Hawaii
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. His chief research interests were cognitive factors and affective factors in adult
second-language acquisition
Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process of learning a language other than one's native language (L1). SLA research examines how learners ...
,
and he was most known for developing the
noticing hypothesis.
He was the president of the
American Association for Applied Linguistics in 2003, and most recently served as a senior consultant for the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Richard Schmidt at the University of Hawaii
Linguists from the United States
University of Hawaiʻi faculty
1941 births
2017 deaths
Presidents of the American Association for Applied Linguistics
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