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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, who is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Krashen has received more than 588,262 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Stephen Krashen is the 92nd most popular linguist (up from 107th in 2019), the 3,817th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,658th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 590k

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  • 52.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Stephen Krashen ranks 92 out of 214Before him are Alexander Gode, Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, Bernhard Karlgren, Albert Sechehaye, and Adolf Erman. After him are Gustaf John Ramstedt, George Abraham Grierson, Paul Ariste, John Chadwick, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, and Michael Halliday.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Stephen Krashen ranks 232Before him are Angelo Domenghini, Rintaro, Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza, Robert Foxworth, Pola Raksa, and Dennis Sullivan. After him are Júlia Várady, Eric Braeden, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Ricardo Piglia, David Lewis, and Margitta Gummel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Krashen ranks 3,817 out of 20,380Before him are Robert Blake (1933), Ralph Craig (1889), Vanessa Williams (1963), Marlon Wayans (1972), Chris Penn (1965), and Christopher Cross (1951). After him are Jerome Robbins (1918), June Allyson (1917), Dennis Haysbert (1954), Joe Morton (1947), George David Birkhoff (1884), and David Janssen (1931).

Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Stephen Krashen ranks 11Before him are Leonard Bloomfield (1887), Joseph Greenberg (1915), George Lakoff (1941), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), and Morris Swadesh (1909). After him are George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), and George Perkins Marsh (1801).