THE FORMATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH WRITING BY MEANS OF BLOGS ON THE BASIS OF INTERACTIVE TEACHING

The article considers blog and blog technology as a modern effective tool of interactive foreign language teaching and proposes the methodology of forming the English writing competence of high school students with the use of blogs. The content of the concepts “interactive learning of foreign languages”, “technology of interactive learning of foreign languages” is determined, the main characteristics of interactive foreign language teaching and the importance of critical thinking as its key components are outlined. The technology of forming the English written communication competence of high school students with the use of blogs on the basis of interactive foreign language teaching is substantiated: the methodological potential of blogs as a means of forming the English written communication competence of high school students on the basis of interactive teaching is considered, the appropriate methodological typology of blogs is proposed, the stages of developing the English writing skills with the use of blogs are characterized in correlation with the stages of interactive foreign language teaching. The subsystem of exercises for forming the English written communication competence of high school students with the use of blogs on the basis of interactive teaching is proposed, examples of exercises and illustrative materials are presented.