USING COGNITIVE APPROACH IN WRITING AT SENIOR STAGE IN LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Writing is considered as one of the essential skills to acquire since in the contemporary world of technological progress people need writing skills in order to communicate efficiently via Internet. However, learners of senior stage of foreign language education have difficulties in expressing their thoughts and ideas in written form. Thus, they do not fully acquire communicative competence. In this case a cognitive approach is suggested to use in teaching writing to improve students’ writing skills since it allows children to use writing strategies appropriately to improve the quality of their written texts. Thus, the main goal of the article is to provide some theoretical ideas on writing from cognitive point of view and display teaching writing using cognitive approach at senior stage of foreign language education. To achieve the goal of study an analysis of fundamental works and works of different scientists related to the cognitive approach in teaching writing was conducted.