Foreign Language Education the Easy Way
Stephen Krashenis professor emeritus at the University of Southern California. He was on the linguistics department faculty and later on the faculty of the School of Education. He is a linguist and educational researcher. Dr. Krashen has published more than 350 papers and books in the fields of second language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He has introduced many influential concepts and terms in the area of second language acquisition, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis. He has said that free voluntary reading "is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second."