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.
At Oregon she was the Director of the American English Institute and a Linguistics Department faculty until she retired in 1999.
Her work showed a lasting concern with methodological issues in second language research.
In addition, she edited a book series for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates entitled Second Language Acquisition Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.