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Introduction - silence in second language learning - a present absence;averting the gaze - silence in second language acquisition research, definingsilence, individual differences, from personality to identity, from theindividual to the social, ...and back-from the social to the individual, theindividual and psychoanalysis; changing the subject - psychoanalytic theory,silence and the self, the dynamic self, anxiety, judgement and conflict,loss, mourning and melancholia, ambivalence - holding on, letting go; lookingand looking again - memoirs of second language learning, searching forstories, split by the difference - Eva Hoffman, public and private selves -Richard Rodriguez, the secret self - Patrick Chamoiseau, mastering thesubject - Alice Kaplan; reading between the lines - language learner diaries,why diaries?, reading and interpreting the diaries; taking the hint - workingwith silence.