Silence in Second Language Learning : A Psychoanalytic Reading / Colette A. Granger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Granger, Colette A., Author.

Series:

Second Language Acquisition S.

Second Language Acquisition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Second language acquisition.

Silence.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9786610828302

9781788920407

1788920406

9781280828300

1280828307

9781853596995

185359699X

OCLC:

567985386