Biographical+Sketch



=Dr. Stephen Krashen - Linguist, Educational Researcher and Activist =

Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, has interests in language acquistion, the study of second languages and the connections between reading and language learning. He is also an advocate for the library and has published over 450 papers and books.

**Personal Information: **
Stephen Krashen was born in Chicago, IL on May 14, 1941 to Leo and Julia (nee Maller) Krashen. He married Eula Persons on October 6, 1966 and together they have two children, Deborah and Daniel. He was the Incline Bench Press champion of Venice Beach in 1978 and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Dr. Krashen has developed his own fluency in several other languages including French, German, Hebrew, Amharic, Yiddish and Spanish (Robb, 2002). The three things he recommends to new ESL teacher are: reading for pleasure in your own second language, reading everything written by Frank Smith and Jim Trelease, and do not eat any junk food (Robb, 2002).

**Education: **

 * B.A. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1962
 * M.A. from University of California, Los Angeles, 1969
 * Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles, 1972

**Career: **

 * U.S. Peace Corps, volunteer in Ethiopia, 1964-1966
 * Postdoctoral fellow at Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 1972-1973
 * Assistant professor of Linguistics, Queens College of the City University of New York, 1973-1975
 * Associate professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1975-1981
 * Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1981-present

**Awards: **

 * Mildenberger Award form Modern Language Association of America for his book, //Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning// (Prentice Hall), 1982
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Co-winner of the Paul Pimsleur Award for best foreign language education research from the American Council of Foreign Language Teachers, 1985
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Robert J. Ludwig distinguished national Leadership Award from New York Foreign Language Teachers Association, 1986
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Distinguished Presentation related to School Library Media Centers, awarded by the editors of the School Library Media Annual, 1993
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inducted to the International Reading Association's Hall of Fame, 2005
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Elelcted to the National Association for Bilingual Education Executive Board

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">"So many years left, so many languages to acquire!" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This advice was given to him by an 86 year old woman in Hungary named Lomb Kato, a professional translator who had acquired 17 languages. He was 54 at the time and was renewed and inspired to continue his own quest for acquiring new languages. He reads something for pleasure every day in another language, alternating between French, German and Spanish to keep in practice.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Life Changing Advice: **