Teaching Academic Writing in Foreign Language with Information and Communication Technologies

Abstract

The article is devoted to the competence developing of the students’ academic writing in a foreign language with ICT (information and communication technologies) at university. The authors analyze the works on the problem of teaching the academic writing in the higher educational institutions; investigate the traditional and innovative ways, methods and means of the competence developing of the academic writing in a foreign language. The structural components of the competence: linguistic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic, sociocultural, discursive and strategic are characterized in this work. One of the innovative ways to improve the academic writing is using ICT and a variety of learning tools in the educational process. The obtained data emphasize the importance of ICT in providing professionally oriented written interaction of the students. The authors have developed and scientifically substantiated the methodological system for the competence developing of the students’ academic writing in a foreign language with ICT help. They offer the examples of technical and non-technical means of education. Established diagnostic tools have proved the effectiveness of the developed methodological system. Keywords—academic writing; ICT in education; a foreign language component