Teaching foreign language written speech to future english teachers: a modular approach

Abstract

The article investigates written speech as a type of speech activity and analyzes the issue of development of this type of speech as a constituent of professional competence of future teacher-philologists. Special emphasis is placed on written speech displaying the unity of six components of communicative competence: linguistic, speech, sociolinguistic, pragmatic, subject and formal logical ones. As the aim of higher foreign education in terms of developing written speech is mastering canons of all basic types, genres and styles of written texts, the article substantiates expediency of introducing the modular approach to education, which provides with efficacy, purposefulness, technological character and completeness in gaining the aim. The authors specify the essence of modular education and the notion "educational module"; analyzes the structure of an educational module. Through the method of modelling there has been designed an educational module on development of foreign language written speech of

students in the final year of Bachelor‘s studies. The module encompasses three mini- modules on different styles of written discourse: scientific, official and publicistic.