Author in the News: A Legacy for Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman


 

Today (October 24) is the anniversary of Madeline E. Ehrman's death in 2015. It seems difficult to believe that seven years have passed since she was sitting with the MSI Press editor, talking about what would be her last (still unpublished, but posthumously planned publication) book, The E&L Construct -- an  instrument, copyrighted at the US Library of Congress in 2002,.

The E&L instrumnt identifies neurodiversity preferences that she (the E) designed and validated with Betty Lou Leaver, MSI Press managing editor (the L), when they both worked for US government institutions.

The E&L Cognitive Styles Construct is not the first posthumous book that MSI Press has published, nor is it likely to be the last. It is a tribute to Madeline, however, that interest in the instrument has grown and become such that a posthumous book is considered viable.

Madeline worked her entire career at the Foreign Service Institute. After she died (from stomach cancer, likely resulting from many years of living with Corhn's Disease), the Foreign Service Institute established the Madeline Ehrman Foreign Service Institute Fellowship, an internship in second language acquisition. 

Madeline co-authored a book on individual differences with the late Zoltan Dornyei and served as a subject for Earl Stevick's study of successful language learners. She provided consultation to a large number of language schools and organizations as well as to government agencies. In the area of second language acquisition, her legacy is significant and immense.

For more posts about Madeline, click HERE.

For more posts about learning styles/cognitive styles, click HERE.


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