TEACHING SOCIO-CULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ESSAY TO UPPER-INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED STUDENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES FACULTIES
The article argues for the necessity of teaching socio-cultural features of the English-language essay to students of faculties of foreign languages in order to enable them to successfully interact in cross-cultural communication. Special attention is paid to the development of skills required to create a competent written statement in the format of an English-language essay, observing the rules of logical, semantic and lexico-grammatical patterns. The success of the resulting approach with an emphasis on the socio-cultural aspect in teaching is proved.