Classroom activities for developing students writing skills

Abstract

The article deals with some efficient ways to improve student writing. It also touches upon issues related to the content of teaching writing at the present stage of education development. The authors offer examples of creative tasks that have a stimulating effect on the process of development writing skills and the creation of conditions to increase the interest and motivation of students to study a foreign language. The authors believe that teaching based on communication should be considered to be the major factor contributing to increase motivation, since it is the natural communication situations in teaching writing skills that leads to higher levels of motivation and the quality of knowledge in teaching writing.