East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education

About the author

Jim King is based at the University of Leicester where he directs the institution’s campus-based postgraduate courses in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language. His books include the monograph Silence in the Second Language Classroom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and the edited volumes The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching (with Christina Gkonou and Jean-Marc Dewaele, Multilingual Matters, 2020) and East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education (with Seiko Harumi, Multilingual Matters, 2020).
Seiko Harumi is a Lecturer in Japanese and Applied Linguistics (Education) at SOAS, University of London. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Institute of Education, University of London. She has taught English, Applied Linguistics and Japanese in Japan and currently teaches in the United Kingdom. Her academic interests lie in classroom discourse, pragmatics, learner-centred reflective approaches in L2 learning and language pedagogy. She has published research in international journals including ELT Journal.

Product details

• Assisted by: Seiko Harumi (Editor), Jim King (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2020
• EAN: 9781788926751
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-675-1
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 432 g
• Series: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Asia, Language acquisition