Teaching writing as a type of speech activity in FL - Дипломная работа

Introduction Nowadays when learning to communicate has become the principal object while studying a foreign language, each skill plays an important part. To have success a very important part is played by teaching language skills in a communicative way. The aim of this work is to consider the importance of teaching writing skills in a communicative way and what teachers should do to have effective teaching. Writing also enhances language acquisition; it develops critical thinking and helps learners to express freely as in their mother tongue, using English for communicative purpose. The teacher has to use different techniques and strategies to develop communicative writing according to the age and language level of students. Teachers should have clear objectives in the teaching process. When texts do not offer a lot of writing activities is the teacher who has to prepare communicative writing assignments. An effective writing assignment can advance important course objectives, the instructions should be given clear, in this way it encourages students to learn actively. The goal is not simply dictate and written down a part but to develop into a higher level so as it continues the idea of what they hear at communicative level The actuality of the work. In recent years language researchers and practitioners have shifted their focus from developing individual linguistic skills to the use of language to achieve the speakers objectives. This new area of focus, known as communicative competence, leads language teachers to seek task-oriented activities that engage their students in creative language use. In the process of learning English as a foreign language, writing is considered as one of the most essential skills. In addition to being a communicative skill of vital importance, it is a skill which enables the learner to plan and rethink the communication process. Intercourse with foreign speakers is realized through written correspondence and exchange of written messages. Every school-graduator must be capable of writing a letter in the FL. Writing is an important means of instruction. It serves to consolidate acquired language knowledge (grammar, vocabulary, phonetics: e.g. than-then) and communicative skills.Therefore, teaching writing skills should be taught gradually starting from instrumental skill to content-based writing. Teaching writing should be started from beginning level. Most school textbooks are focused on teaching writing separately without integration of other skills. In other words, my qualification work pursues as its major aim to help foreign students improve their writing skills with the integration of other skills from the beginning level. The significance of my work can be proved that I tried to find optional methods of improving writing skills from the beginning level and applied them in practice. Teaching writing is a common theme among most researchers who worked in a sphere of language learning and methodology. Deborah R. Yates claims that the importance of developing fluent writing in ESL learners is central to understanding and helping ESL learners. For example, there are idioms or nuances in American English that have to be taught. One must impart expertise in this area. It is not enough to just teach writing, one must teach these nuances. Often, the student will struggle with how to say something. It is important to help the student by explaining how to say something and what it means in American usage. As papers are corrected for these students, they often start to make the connections. They can start to understand their mistakes and begin to correct them for themselves. Another aspect of fluency is based on verbal ability. What one can speak about, one can write about. Practicing English conversation can be helpful for this. The aim of the work is to search methodologists’ works in teaching writing and create own method of teaching writing to ESL students. The subject is teaching writing as a type of speech activity in foreign language. The object is the importance and relevance of teaching writing to ESL students. The tasks of the work: a) To study, analyze, and sum up the modern methods of teaching writing; b) To prove the idea of importance of improving students’ writing skills; c) To analyze the major results achieved in the studied field; d) To analyze school textbooks and work out a series of activities for improving students’ writing skills. The methods of the research. The main methods for compiling my work are the method of analysis and the method of research. In my work, I analyzed school textbooks and added some new activities which I considered suitable for teaching and improving students’ writing skills. The methodological foundation of the work. In my research I used the ideas of English, Russian and foreign methodologies who worked in the sphere of foreign language teaching methodology and language learning. I addressed to works of, G. Rogova, Spack.R, G. L. Rico