Frontmatter -- 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