This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language. From the Contents: 7. Talk and Silence in an EFL Classroom: Interplay of Learners and Context; Tomoko Yashima, Maiko Ikeda and Satomi Nakahira/ 8. Classroom Silence and the Dynamic Interplay beetween Context and the Language Learner: A Stimulated Recall Study; Jim King.