The Role of Risk-Taking Behavior in the Development of Speaking Skills in ESL Classrooms

 

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Egilea: Marín Cervantes, Irene
Formatua: artículo original
Egoera:Versión publicada
Argitaratze data:2014
Deskribapena:This essay presents an overview of different perspectives of the risk-taking construct in the development of speaking skills in the second language classroom. Its main purpose is to examine the role of risk taking in the acquisition of a foreign or second language and the improvement of oral proficiency. The first section introduces the concept of risk taking from markedly different perspectives of several authors. The second section focuses on the particular traits that characterize risk takers in the language learning scenario. The third section explains the distinctive variables, namely, situational, social and individual, which are responsible for differences in risk-taking levels. The last section compares and contrasts the high and low use of risk-taking behaviors which leads to a final discussion and reflection on some pedagogical issues concerning risk taking in the second language classroom.
Herria:Portal de Revistas UCR
Erakundea:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Hizkuntza:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/13952
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/13952
Gako-hitza:risk taking
language learning
language acquisition
speaking skills
riesgos
aprendizaje de una lengua
adquisición de una segunda lengua
destrezas orales