Silence in English Language Pedagogy

"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"--

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.