1. Psycho-pedagogical peculiarities of flt at senior stage of a full secondary school

13.Stages of work in teaching of written form of professional communication: Business letters
Writing is a way of communicating with the help of graphic signs that let fix certain information to pass it through a distance and to keep it in space and time. Writing is not only a graphic system but it is also a communicative skill providing for expressing ideas in a graphic form.A s any other kind of activity, writing is characterized by a motive (what for), the topic (the writer’s own ideas or rendering other people’s ideas), product (a written text of some type and genre) and result (changes in the addressee’s behavior). Competence in writing embraces skills, knowledge and communicative abilities. Skills presuppose technical skills (graphic and spelling), grammar skills and vocabulary skills (among them those skills that ensure coherence and cohesiveness of the text are very important) as well as communicative skills of writing.
Communicative skills of writing include the following skills:
· to make up sentences and texts according to the requirements of communication in a written form;
to provide for the appropriate style, register and genre;
· to structure texts according to the type and genre;
· to provide for socio-cultural requirements to the text genre and type;
Intellectual skills embrace skills to take into consideration the target audience (the addressee, the situation, possible reaction etc); to plan and programme utterances; to construct them logically; to give arguments; to generalize etc.
Compensational skills: to paraphrase, to simplify structures, to support writing with the information inferred from the text for reading or listening etc.
Knowledge includes linguistic knowledge (of spelling rules; syntactic rules; vocabulary, grammar and cohesive devices as well as stylistic means characteristic for the text type and genre etc), cross-cultural and sociolinguocultural knowledge (e.g. some patterns, standards for a certain genre), knowledge of compensational strategies etc.