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Stephen D. Krashen  

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  • Stephen D. Krashen, noted linguist and education researcher, was born in Chicago in 1941. After spending 2 years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, where he taught eighth-grade English and science, Krashen pursued a PhD in linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), culminated by his 1972 dissertation Language and the Left Hemisphere. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Krashen, Stephen D. (1941-)]

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