Simon Belasco

Simon Belasco (born December 21, 1918 in Philadelphia , † November 10, 1999 in Richland County (South Carolina) ) was an American foreign language teacher, Romance scholar and phonetician .

life and work

Belasco studied at Temple University , was an interpreter and captain of the United States Army during the World War and received his doctorate in 1953 from the University of Pennsylvania with the thesis Phonetic basis of French rime. An articulatory, acoustic, auditory study of rime preferences . He taught at Pennsylvania State University and at the University of South Carolina in Columbia (South Carolina) for 20 years .

(Ed.) Manual and anthology of applied linguistics , 4 Bde., Washington 1960 (Authors: Albert Valdman , Samuel A. Brown, Robert A. Hall , Jr., Michael Zarechnak, Ismael Silva-Fuenzalida)
Anthology for use with A guide for teachers in NDEA language institutes , Boston 1961
(with Albert Valdman) College French in the new key , Boston 1965
(with Albert Valdman) Workbook for college French in the new key , Boston 1965
(with Albert Valdman) Applied linguistics and the teaching of French , University Park, Pa. 1968
Reading college French . A bilingual functional approach based on the novel Un métier de seigneur by Pierre Boulle, New York 1975
(Series ed.) Theoretical studies in second language acquisition , 7 vols., New York 1991–1996

personal data
SURNAME	Belasco, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American foreign language teacher, romance scholar and phonetician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1999
Place of death	Richland County, South Carolina