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62
Citations
58517
World Ranking
1210
National Ranking
563

Overview

Stephen Krashen is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a strong focus on education and linguistics.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Is The Library Important? Multivariate Studies at the National and International Level (2021, IASL Annual Conference Proceedings)
  • Some reactions: Why my publications after 1982 were not cited or discussed (2021, Foreign Language Annals)
  • BARRIERS TO ADVANCED HERITAGE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (2023, LLT Journal A Journal on Language and Language Teaching)
  • Three Tips Teachers Can Utilize for Multilingual Learners (2024, Tapestry:)
  • Reading and writing, they do different things (2025, TESOL Bangladesh journal)

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Nooshan Ashtari
  • Syying Lee
  • Jeff McQuillan
  • Theresa Summer
  • Heiner Böttger

The main publication venues where their work appears often are:

  • Asian Journal on Perspectives in Education
  • IASL Annual Conference Proceedings
  • Foreign Language Annals
  • LLT Journal A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
  • Tapestry:

Stephen Krashen's areas of study break down into subfields including:

  • Education
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Safety Research
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

The topics addressed in their research cover a range of educational and sociolinguistic issues such as:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • American Political and Social Dynamics

In addition to journal articles, Stephen Krashen has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored English in Primary Education: Concepts, Research, Practice published in 2022 by Forum Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung.

Best Publications

  • The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • We Acquire Vocabulary and Spelling by Reading: Additional Evidence for the Input Hypothesis

    Stephen Krashen

  • The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

    Stephen D. Krashen;Tracy D. Terrell

  • IS THERE A “NATURAL SEQUENCE” IN ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING?

    Nathalie Bailey;Carolyn Madden;Stephen D. Krashen

  • Writing--research, theory, and applications

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition.

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • LATERALIZATION, LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND THE CRITICAL PERIOD: SOME NEW EVIDENCE

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • UNDER ATTACK/THE CASE AGAINST BILINGUAL EDUCATION

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • Extensive reading in English as a foreign language

    Beniko Mason;Stephen Krashen

  • Language acquisition and language education : extensions and applications

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

    Kevin R. Gregg;Stephen D. Krashen

  • The Natural Approach

    Stephen D. Krashen;Tracy D. Terrell

  • Acquisition of Vocabulary from the Sweet Valley Kids Series: Adult ESL Acquisition.

    Kyung-Sook Cho;Stephen D. Krashen

  • Formal and Informal Linguistic Environments in Language Acquisition and Language Learning.

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • Developing Communicative Competence in a Second Language

    Robin C. Scarcella;Elaine S. Andersen;Stephen D. Krashen

  • The development of language in genie: a case of language acquisition beyond the “critical period”

    Victoria Fromkin;Stephen Krashen;Susan Curtiss;David Rigler

  • Child-adult differences in second language acquisition

    Stephen D. Krashen;Robin C. Scarcella;Michael H. Long

  • Explorations in language acquisition and use : the Taipei lectures

    Stephen D. Krashen

  • The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

    John W. Oller;Stephen D. Krashen

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Clément
Richard Clément University of Ottawa
Roger W. Remington
Roger W. Remington University of Minnesota
Ofelia García
Ofelia García City University of New York
Michael H. Long
Michael H. Long University of Maryland, College Park
Guadalupe Valdés
Guadalupe Valdés Stanford University
Teresa L. McCarty
Teresa L. McCarty University of California, Los Angeles
Nancy H. Hornberger
Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania

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