DEVELOPING ENGLISH FUTURE

TEACHERS’ WRITING COMPETENCE

THROUGH INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGIES
BY ULIANA KOZYRA
 The actuality lies

in the fact that IT haven’t been introduced so much in developing English writing skills and there are not so many methodically worked out exercises to
fulfill the aim.
 The objective

of our research is to investigate the influence of

using IT for developing Writing Competence and to
create the system of exercises for its formation
through IT tools.
 Tasks
 to investigate the notion of writing competence and main principles of its
development;
 to identify linguistic and psychological characteristics in its formation;
 to study the appliance of IT in forming writing skills for future teachers of English;
 to single out the criteria for the selection of educational material that is use in
developing English future teachers’ writing competence by means of IT.
 develop our own system of exercises for forming English writing competence by
using IT;
 to check the effectiveness of introduced methodology in practice.
 Writing competence

lexical

strategic grammatical

Foreign language
competence in
writing

sociolinguistic
discursive

sociocultural

Writing competence is the ability to encrypt information based on the graphical communication channel
through the acquired knowledge in grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation
Operations that occur in the brain while writing in
English:

symbolic designation of the sounds in the language;

simulation in the sound structure of the word;
graph-motor operations
 Usage of the information technologies –
is the set of ordered actions of computer and
telecommunication means
searching storage

delivery processing

transmission displaying
First attempts to introduce IT in the process of
studying FL

CALL (Computer Assisted • 80-ies of the XX century –

Language Learning) emergence of personal computers

TELL (Technology Enhanced

Language Learning)
ICT in LT (Information and • 90-ies of the XX century –
Communication Technology in emergence of Internet
Language Teaching)

MALL – Mobile • 2000s – development of

Assisted Language the network
Learning communication
Criteria for the selection of exercises

• orientation on reception and issuance of information;

• communication;

• motivation;
• presence or absence of supportive material;

• presence or absence of a game component;

• participation of a native and / or the FL.
 Criteria for selecting the linguistic material

appropriate compositional
authenticity
structure organization

connectivity and logical

professional orientation
structure

exemplary topicality of texts

 Stages in the interrelation of IT innovations

cognition persuasion solution implementation confirmation

Stages in development of writing skills

productive

receptive-
productive

receptive
SYSTEM OF EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING WRITING
COMPETENCE BASED ON USING IT

Group I – exercises for learning graphics and spelling;

Group II – exercises on assimilation of compositional unities
of different levels;
Group III – exercises to create an own composition by using
different types of supportive material;
Group IV – exercises to create an own composition in the
form of letters, essays, announcements, annotations, articles.
INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS

British Council Bristol. AC

 MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPING
WRITING SKILLS

Sentence Master English Practice English Exercises

 MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPING
WRITING SKILLS

Cambridge English Write & IELTS Writing

PRE-EXPERIMENTAL CUT IN GROUP EPH-42
(LEVEL OF WRITING SKILLS)
8% 8%

12%
16%

Advanced High Medium

Satisfactory Low Waystage

28%

28%
POST-EXPERIMENTAL CUT IN GROUP EPH-42
(LEVEL OF WRITING SKILLS)

Low
4%

Satisfactory
12% Advanced
24%

Advanced
High
Medium
Satisfactory
Low
Waystage
Medium
28%

High
32%
“BEFORE” AND “AFTER” THE EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING
(COMPARISON)

0.8

0.7

0.6
1 – results before the experiment
0.5

0.4 0.76 2 – results after the experiment

0.3 0.56
0,1–0,8 – educational quotient
0.2 established by V.P. Bezpalko
0.1

0
1 2
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!