Stephen Krashen

Stephen Krashen

Infobox Person
name = Stephen D. Krashen


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employer = University of Southern California
birth_date = 1941
birth_place = Chicago, Illinois
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title = Professor emeritus
occupation = Linguist, educational researcher
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Stephen Krashen is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, and is a linguist, educational researcher, and activist. Krashen has contributed to the fields of second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, and reading. [District Administration: the magazine for K-12 education leaders. "The Pulse: education's place for debate". "Stephen Krashen Bio". Retrieved from http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=16805 ] [National Association for Bilingual Education. "2005 NABE Executive Board Election, Regional Representatives, West Region —Candidates’ Statements & Biographies". PDF downloaded from http://www.nabe.org/documents/elections/west.pdf] He is credited with introducing various influential concepts and terms in the study of second language acquisition, including the Acquisition-learning hypothesis, the Input Hypothesis, Monitor Theory, the Affective Filter, and the Natural Order Hypothesis. [Krashen, S. (2003) "Explorations in Language Acquisiton and Use". Portsmouth: Heimemann.] Most recently, Krashen promotes the use of "free voluntary reading" during second language acquisition, of which he says "I believe that it is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second." [Scott, R.(2002) "Achievement Profile: Stephen Krashen". Available at: [http://www.eslminiconf.net/september/krashen.html] ]

Krashen was inducted into the International Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in 2005. [International Reading Association. (2007). Reading hall of fame. Retrieved from http://www.readinghalloffame.org/members.html] Krashen is a member of the National Association for Bilingual Education and was elected to the NABE Executive Board in 2005. [NABE. Press release: "NABE ELECTS REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES TO EXECUTIVE BOARD". Retrieved from http://www.nabe.org/press/press7.html ]

External links

* [http://www.sdkrashen.com/ Books and articles by Stephen D Krashen ]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1127540 NPR Talk of the Nation episode featuring Stephen Krashen]
* [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SLA/Krashen.htm Krashen's Comprehension Hypothesis Model of L2 learning] Applied linguist Vivian Cook's page on Krashen's hypotheses.

Criticism

* Column by Jill Stewart on the website of Arizona group English for the Children: [http://www.angelfire.com/az/english4thechildren/krashen.html Krashen Burn]
* Column by Jill Stewart from the Los Angeles New Times, pub. 2000: [http://www.onenation.org/0007/072000b.html Catatonic Stupor]

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