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Stephen Krashen

1941 - Today

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Stephen D. Krashen (born May 14, 1941) is an American linguist, educational researcher and activist known for developing the input hypothesis, a group of five hypotheses of second-language acquisition. He is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. He moved from the linguistics department to the faculty of the School of Education in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Krashen is the 111th most popular linguist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 5,004th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,817th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Stephen Krashen ranks 111 out of 214. Before him are Jules Gilliéron, Jan de Vries, Brian Houghton Hodgson, August Immanuel Bekker, Kunio Yanagita, and Albert Sechehaye. After him are Nakahama Manjirō, John Chadwick, Milena Hübschmannová, John Florio, George Abraham Grierson, and Eugen Wüster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Stephen Krashen ranks 295. Before him are Beatrice Tinsley, Ivanka Khristova, Robert Foxworth, Kálmán Mészöly, Rina Zaripova, and Lucien Aimar. After him are Randall Collins, Félix Rodríguez, Robert McKee, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Rosalind E. Krauss, and Michael Moriarty.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Krashen ranks 5,004 out of 20,380. Before him are Sasha Alexander (1973), Billy Herrington (1969), L. Q. Jones (1927), Kevin Nash (1959), Roscoe Tanner (1951), and Edward Feigenbaum (1936). After him are Jeff Hanneman (1964), Wyomia Tyus (1945), Cary Joji Fukunaga (1977), Bob Balaban (1945), Ted Williams (1918), and John C. Frémont (1813).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Stephen Krashen ranks 11. Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Joseph Greenberg (1915), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), George Lakoff (1941), and Morris Swadesh (1909). After him are George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), Alice Kober (1906), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Robert Blust (1940), and Dell Hymes (1927).

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