1985: co-winner of the Pimsleur Award, given by the American Council of Foreign Language Teachers for the best published article 1986: his paper "Lateralisation, language learning and the critical period" was selected as Citation Class by Current Contents 1993: the Distinguished Presentation related to School Library Media Centers, was awarded to by editors of the School Library Media Annual 1982: winner of the Mildenberger Award, given for his book, Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning (Prentice-Hall) 2005: Krashen was inducted into the International Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame.[6] 2005: elected at the National Association for Bilingual Education Executive Board.[7][8]