Silence in English Language Pedagogy - From Research to Practice

"Drawing on empirical data, this book addresses silence in language pedagogy from a positive perspective, translating research into practice in order to inform teaching and to advocate greater use of positive silence in the classroom. It is essential reading for researchers in applied linguistics, TESOL and language teaching"--

List of contents

1. Embracing silence in education; 2. The presence of silence in second language acquisition; 3. Trends in silence research; 4. Elements that shape pedagogy for silence; 5. Problematising silence; 6. Ways of addressing classroom silence; 7. Online silence; 8. Coping with undesirable online silence; 9. Silence in ELT task design; 10. Some ideas for silence research.

About the author

Dat Bao is Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Silence Studies in Education. Notable publications include Understanding Silence and Reticence (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Product details

• Authors: Bao Dat
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009011273
• ISBN: 978-1-009-01127-3
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language acquisition, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, ELT: teaching theory & methods