Larry selinker biography
Larry Selinker is....
At Michigan, he was Director of the English Language Institute, taught Second Language Acquisition courses and created a freshman course, “The Good and Bad.
Larry Selinker
American linguist
Larry Selinker is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Michigan and former director of the university's English Language Institute.[1] In 1972, Selinker introduced the concept of interlanguage, which built upon Pit Corder's previous work on the nature of language learners' errors.
Corder's and Selinker's work became the foundation of modern research into second-language acquisition, and interlanguage is accepted as a basic principle of the discipline.[2]
Education
Selinker received his B.A.
from Brandeis University in 1959, where he studied Near-Eastern studies. He received his M.A. from The American University in 1960, in the subject of linguistics.[3] Selinker studied at Georgetown University for his doctorate, which he received in 1966.[2]
Career
After completing his PhD, Selinker moved to the University of Washington, where he became assistant professor of linguistics and d
