Development of the skills of foreign language writing in high school students on the basis of a personality-oriented approach

Abstract

The necessity of developing the skills of foreign language writing in high school students based on a personality-oriented approach and the principles of self-actualization, individualization, subjectivity, choice, creativity and success, trust and support is substantiated. The specificity of written speech is considered in comparison with oral speech based on the analysis of the literature of well-known psychologists, linguists, methodologists in the field of teaching foreign languages. Groups of skills (cognitive-pragmatic, logical and rhetorical) are defined. The developed system of exercises is implemented in three stages. At the preparatory stage, there is an activation of the students’ knowledge on the topic, familiarization with new material and the beginning of the development of cognitive-pragmatic, logical and rhetorical skills. At the training stage, the development of logical and cognitive-pragmatic skills continues, as well as exercises for the development of rhetorical skills, with a gradual increase in students’ independence in completing tasks. The main goal of these stages is to write an essay in English.