TEACHING WRITING SKILLS AT UNIVERSITY

The aim of the paper is to introduce some educational technologies of forming writing skills while teaching foreign languages. This is of particular importance at University in the training of bachelors and masters and in the formation of their professional competencies and skills, including competencies related to the ability to present effectively projects in a foreign language in a written form. Also we develop communicative competences that are not conceivable without the ability to carry out oral and written communication in all forms in a foreign language, the ability to annotate and render professional and business texts in the language of study, compile reports, write letters, memos, etc. To respond to the challenges of modern society and adequate solutions to socio-economic, cultural, educational and professional problems we use the methods of professional linguodidactics which become a professionally oriented approach. The teaching of writing is based on the basic didactic principle from simple to complex: students develop their skills from primary to secondary texts. As a result different types of written works which students are supposed to create in higher school are introduced and the criteria for written speech are formulated.