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Dr. Paul Pimsleur (b. 1926, d. 1976) devoted his life to language
teaching and testing and was one of the world's leading experts in
applied linguistics. He was fluent in French, good in German, and had a
working knowledge of Italian, Russian, Modern Greek, and Mandarin
Chinese. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French and a Masters in
Psychology from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and
Linguistics at UCLA. He later became Professor of Romance Languages and
Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center (a state-wide
language lab) at Ohio State University; Professor of Education and
Romance Languages at the State University of New York at Albany; and a
Fulbright lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. He did research on
the psychology of language learning and in 1969 was Section Head of
Psychology of Second Language Learning at the International Congress of
Applied Linguistics.
Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American
Association of Teachers of French (AATF), American Educational Research
Association (AERA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding
member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL).
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