附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-134) and index.
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Silence in Second Language Learning: A Present Absence; Chapter 1: Averting the Gaze: Silence in Second Language Acquisition Research; Chapter 2: Changing the Subject: Psychoanalytic Theory, Silence and the Self; Chapter 3: Looking and Looking Again: Memoirs of Second Language Learning; Chapter 4: Reading Between the Lines: Language Learner Diaries; Chapter 5 Taking the Hint: Working with Silence; References; Index.
摘要:This text examines the under-researched and often troubling phenomenon of silence in second language learning through a triangulation of SLA research, memoirs and language learner diaries, and psychoanalytic concepts of anxiety, ambivalence, conflict and loss.