DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH WITH THE USE OF SOCIAL NET VKONTAKTE

. Nowadays the process of globalization and informatization have had a great impact not only on the content of language teaching but also on the choice of the educational methods, technologies and techniques. As a result, the use of social nets in languages teaching seems to be relevant in meeting today’s students’ needs. Social nets can be effectively used not only while chatting in English, exchanging information or materials, but also while teaching creative writing skills with the use of all didactic and technological potential of this instrument. Moreover, the focus on creative writing skills boosts the students’ as well as teachers’ interest and motivation to integration this technology into the teaching process. One of our hypotheses is that nowadays the functions of social nets can be easily applied in different-level groups due to their simplicity in usage and the fact that nowadays practically everyone uses them in their personal and business aims. In the present research, step-by-step educational methodology helps students of B1+/B2 level (CEFR) to gain the needed aims in expressing and developing their creative potential and skills in writing. The author chose developing of writing skills since this is one of productive skills and provides students many advantages such as the necessary time to think over a topic, to reflect on it, to choose optimal media to illustrate visually the idea of the topic and so on. Moreover, it is possible to outline that the objectives prescribed in State Education Standards are also designed at developing student’s creative potential on all levels of education. As far as the target audience of the experiment is concerned, they are students of High School of Television, Lomonosov Moscow State University. In this way, their creativity should be expressed in everything related to creative approach to everything connected with online and printed media, advertisement, writing a script to the video. Finally, the results of the preliminary and final surveys show the need in such kind of activity and students’ productive works demonstrate their progress in creative writing skills.