RISK-TAKING AND SELF-CONFIDENCE IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Abstract

Students pursuing their education overcome many obstacles which are created under lots of circumstances. Taking risks and self-confidence are very crucial individual behaviors those who want to learn a foreign language. This essay presents an overview of different perspectives of the risk-taking and self-confidence construct in the development of language skills in the target language. Its main purpose is to examine the role of both individual behavior in the learning foreign language. The first section introduces the term of risk-taking and it is importance in language learning. The second section focuses on the levels of taking risks among students. The third section explains the role of teacher in the risk-taking process. The fourth and fifth sections analysis self-confidence and ways of building this ability among language learners. The last section explains relation between self-confidence and risk-taking behaviors.