Silence in Second Language Acquisition: A Psychoanalytic Reading

by Colette A. Granger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853596981
• ISBN13: 9781853596988
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.3"