Silence in Second Language Learning
A Psychoanalytic Reading
1st Edition
Published on 16. February 2004
152 pages
978-1-85359-699-5 (ISBN)
Description
Within the complex process of second language acquisition there lies a highly variable component referred to as the silent period, during which some beginning second language learners may not willingly produce the target language. Silence in Second Language Learning claims that the silent period might represent a psychical event, a non-linguistic as well as a linguistic moment in the continuous process of identity formation and re-formation. Colette Granger calls on psychoanalytic concepts of anxiety, ambivalence, conflict and loss, and on language learning narratives, to undertake a theoretical dialogue with the learner as a being engaged in the psychical work of making, and re-making, an identity. Viewed in its entirety, this study takes the form of a kind of triangulation of three elements: the linguistically described phenomenon of the silent period; the psychoanalytically oriented problem of the making of the self; and the real and remembered experiences of individuals who live in the silent space between languages.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-699-5 (9781853596995)
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Colette Granger works in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research explores issues in several areas of education, including second language learning, teacher education and new technologies. Guiding all her work is an overarching question about the ways in which broad social goals, institutional and curricular objectives, and the internal worlds of the individual participants in education collide and at times disrupt one another. This is her first book.
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Silence in Second Language Learning: A Present Absence
1 Averting the Gaze: Silence in Second Language Acquisition Research
2 Changing the Subject: Psychoanalytic Theory, Silence and the Self
3 Looking and Looking Again: Memoirs of Second Language Learning
4 Reading Between the Lines: Language Learner Diaries
5 Taking the Hint: Working with Silence
References
Index
Acknowledgements
Silence in Second Language Learning: A Present Absence
1 Averting the Gaze: Silence in Second Language Acquisition Research
2 Changing the Subject: Psychoanalytic Theory, Silence and the Self
3 Looking and Looking Again: Memoirs of Second Language Learning
4 Reading Between the Lines: Language Learner Diaries
5 Taking the Hint: Working with Silence
References
Index
