DEVELOPING SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SKILLS OF PERCEIVING AND UNDERSTANDING A STIMULUS TEXT FOR ESSAY WRITING
The article analyzes the role of text-perceiving activity in writing an essay based on the stimulus text. The author considers this type of creative writing very specific. So, according to the article, adequate interpreting activity depends on proper perception and basic understanding of the stimulus text. The author believes it is important to develop students' skills of panoramic and tunnel text-perception and to integrate textual and extratextual information. The article provides basic methodological techniques of developing text-perceiving skills, such as slow reading and marking, making-up questions to the text, social and cultural commenting, etc. Some of these techniques are illustrated with the activities.