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Stephen Krashen

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PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Stephen Krashen

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Stephen Krashen听completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at UCLA (1972), and is currently an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California.

Krashen is the author of more than 525 articles and books in the fields of bilingual education, neurolinguistics, second language acquisition and literacy.

He has received numerous awards including the Mildenberger Award听 (1982), given for his book, Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning (Prentice-Hall), the Pimsleur Award, given by the American Council of Foreign Language Teachers for the best published article in 1985, the Dorothy C. McKenzie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Children鈥檚 Literature (Children鈥檚 Literature Council of Southern California), a Doctorate of Humane Letters awarded by Lewis and Clark College, Portland (2011), and the 鈥淜enneth S. Goodman In Defense of Good Teaching鈥 Award, College of Education, University of Arizona, 2019).