37.3681, Books: Silence in Language Education: Bao and Harumi (eds.) (2026)

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Subject: 37.3681, Books: Silence in Language Education: Bao and Harumi (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 02-Nov-2026
From: Arianne Hill [Arianne.Hill at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Silence in Language Education: Bao and Harumi (eds.) (2026)


Title: Silence in Language Education
Subtitle: International Perspectives on Speech and Quiet Learning
Series Title: Bloomsbury Solitude Studies
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/silence-in-language-education-9781350544987/

Editor(s): Dat Bao and Seiko Harumi

Hardback.
9781350544987
£90.00

Abstract:

This collection examines how silence and speech function in the
psychology of student learning. Building on the emerging field of
silence studies, it gathers cutting-edge contributions on the role of
silence in education and suggests new possibilities for integrating
silence into classroom practice.
A great deal of discourse on silence and speech has presumed that
verbal articulation is more advanced and effectual than silent
contemplation. The proposed book challenges that positioning with
empirical evidence to show how silence and speech can work together to
optimise student learning. With over 25 years' experience in silence
research and speech analysis, the editors, Seiko Harumi and Dat Bao,
have collected contributions from contexts including Australia, China,
Japan, Sweden, the UK, the USA, Vietnam, Mongolia, and India, from
school and university education settings.
Themes covered include silence and speech in the ecology of the
classroom; learner experience in students who suffer from anxiety and
communication unwillingness; teacher perspectives on productive and
unproductive silence; silence in communication and speech performance;
and productive silent learning models or ways of learning.
This research-based collection promises to add essential new
perspectives to thinking on the role of silence and speech in student
learning applicable both to researchers and practitioners in education
and silence studies.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics


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