A period during which management and major shareholders of a listed company are prohibited from selling their securities. They are also required to lodge their share or securities certificates in a depository during the silent period. According to the SET, the silent period is normally a period of 6 months from the first day that the stocks were allowed to trade. The silent period, however, may be longer than 6 months, but at most 3 years.
Refers to a language learner's initial pre-production stage of language development. May range from a few weeks with secondary students to an entire school year with some pre-school and kindergarten aged children.
A period of one day to one year in which the ELL does not speak. Usually students at Stage I: Preproduction have a silent period in which they are listening and “absorbing†the language. Before producing it. The silent period varies from culture to culture.
A period of time during which students are adjusting to a new language and may refrain from attempts to produce the language. They are developing listening comprehension skills and sorting out such things as the sound system, vocabulary, and other. Not all students go through a silent period, but those who do should be allowed such a period and not be forced to produce oral language until they begin to feel comfort- able with their initial attempts. The length of this period varies with the individual.
Some L2 learners, especially children, undergo a lengthy period during which they do not try to speak, although they may engage in 'private speech'. [20
a period of time (ranging from a few days to a few months) during which students learning a second language are acquiring knowledge of the language but are not yet ready to speak. They may, however, use non-verbal behaviour. It is a normal part of communicative behaviour. Some children may not go through the 'silent period'.[See McKay, P., Sapuppo, M. and Hudson, C. (1994)