STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ BUSINESS WRITING SKILLS WHILE TEACHING A SPECIALTY LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of developing business writing skills when educating students of higher school in the discipline “Foreign Language in the Professional Sphere”. On the basis of the methodical and pedagogical literature analysis it is proposed to consider the ways of coming up with a system of training, in which the skills of writing would cease to cause negative reactions and rejection of students’. Special attention is paid to the development of writing skills in the design of business correspondence (electronic and traditional letters), memos, reports. Some types of training tasks are suggested to motivate students to write samples of business correspondence, as well as to reduce uncertainty and anxiety when performing such tasks. Recommendations are given for creating a methodological system that promotes the step-bystep development of writing skills. The article concludes that the rapidly developing world of mutual cooperation brings to the fore the meta-skills of a specialist in any field of activity. One of these meta-skills is business communication in the course of communication through writing.