1. Diane Larsen-Freeman was born on 1946 and is an American linguist.
10 Facts About Diane Larsen-Freeman
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Diane Larsen-Freeman is currently a Professor Emerita in Education and in Linguistics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman went on to graduate studies at the University of Michigan, earning her PhD in linguistics in 1975.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman first served on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles and then the SIT Graduate Institute.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman stepped down from directing the ELI in 2008 and retired from the University of Michigan in 2012, where she holds emerita positions as well as at the SIT Graduate Institute.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman remains active in her field, and teaches courses on the structure of English and second language development as a visiting senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman has found that complexity theory provides new insights into language, its acquisition, and its use.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman sees all three as complex, non-linear, dynamic processes.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman was the editor of the journal Language Learning for five years.
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Diane Larsen-Freeman criticised Larry Selinker's Interlanguage in a chapter entitled Another Step to be Taken published in Han and Tarone's Interlanguage - Forty Years Later by claiming that there is no endpoint of the interlanguage continuum.