Recommendations that you would make based on your personal experience and research.
write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
After reviewing the story, conduct research online into the various possibilities for analyzing and approaching the system documentation problems that are presented, and propose possible solutions.
• Discuss the specific recommendations that you would make based on your personal experience and research.
• Provide specific examples of how you would address the communication problems that are mentioned in the story and how your problem-solving technique could be implemented for the company that was mentioned in the story.
• How can you apply the lessons that you learned from the story to your own retail store problem?
• Provide feedback on the recommendations that your classmates made.
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
• What did you learn from your classmate's posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the suggested techniques for solving the problem?
• What clarification do you need regarding the method for solving the problem?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your problem-solving technique and that of other classmates?
factors. A case in point is Ely’s characterization of risk taking. In a study accomplished in 1986 (as cited in Nga, 2002), he clarifies that taking risks is intrinsically related to classroom participation and self-confidence. Ely ascertains a key pedagogical factor that was not comprised in previous definitions of the term and that is required in a language class: willingness to participate. According to Hongwei (1996) classroom participation may demonstrate for language learners a noteworthy chance to practice and improve their skills in the target language. On the other hand, Lee and Ng (2010) state that another classroom factor correlated with the willingness to speak is the teacher’s role and whether it can decrease student inhibition to participate in the second language class.
Since there have been numerous various approaches to the term risk taking, the effort to define it and its educational rationale have modified so much that research on learner differences has not come to a unified explanation of the term yet. In spite of this fact, one of the most general definitions of risk taking is found in the words of Beebe, one of the leading researchers in the field. In her analysis of risk taking, she attentively captures most of its essential characteristics. She characterizes the term as a “situation where an individual has to make a decision involving choice between alternatives of various desirability; the consequence of the selection is uncertain; there is a possibility of failure” (Beebe, 1983, p.39). Her definition of risk taking resonates with the observations of other authors, for example, Wen & Clément’s uncertainty of consequences and the choice of actions mentioned by Bem. Beebe (1983) does not comprehensibly clarify the pedagogical implication of risk taking; although, from her definition of the term, teachers and learners can conclude that the risk of being right or wrong, i.e. failure, is inherent to learning to speak a second language.
From all the specifications of the risk-taking construct reviewed so far, we can state that risk taking is not an isolated construct but is closely related to other fundamental learner variables such as classroom participation and willingness to communicate in a second language. What should be highlighted from the literature on risk taking is that this term requires interplay between the learner and the decisions that he makes, his willingness to participate, and the educational setting.
Definitely the definitions of risk taking have also caused research to account for the particular traits that a risk taker should have. In regard to the requirements that learners have to meet in order to be assumed risk takers, one of the most powerful reports corresponds to Ely’s dimensions. According to Ely’s (as cited in Alshalabi, 2003) first dimension, risk takers are not suspicious about utilizing a newly encountered linguistic component. The second dimension refers to risk takers’ willingness to use linguistic components perceived to be complicated or difficult. According to Alshalabi (2003) this dimension clarifies why risk