ENGLISH SCHOLARLY INTERNET RESOURCES AS A COMPONENT OF TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING ESP STUDENTS TO WRITE ESSAYS IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The objective of this study is to develop a technology for teaching ESP students to write essays in English using scholarly Internet resources. The postmodern society educational paradigm is at the stage of global changes and rapid transition to the implementation of educational concepts focused on the learning processes, in which students play the leading role, and the Global Internet resources allow students to develop skills to work independently with information technologies for self-development, self-education, and development of information competencies. In the framework of this paper the researchers develop and test the technology of teaching ESP students to write essays in English, employing scholarly Internet resources. The implementation of this technology includes diagnostic, activity, control and descriptive stages, and at the activity stage “cluster analysis” is applied to structure the ideas generated in the brainstorming process. As a result of the implementation of this technology in the educational processes, the authors may observe the process of formation of students’ ability to write essays using scholarly Internet resources, which in the future can be expanded and presented as an innovative course of writing scholarly essays in English for ESP students, which seems to have a strong potential in the light of the modern trend for rethinking of the role of the essay as an effective means of development of communicative competence of ESP students and the development of autonomy in education and overall creativity.