THE ROLE OF COMICS IN THE PROCESS OF TEENAGERS’ COMMUNICATIVE WRITING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
The article deals with the advantages of using comics while developing teenagers’ communicative writing skills at the middle stage of English teaching. The main approaches to the progress by comics genre using are communication-activity-based and competency-based approaches. The article also touches the problem of the comics using as a modern bright media product which is defined by the current Federal State Educational Standard and considered to be suitable for school children of different age characteristics at the middle stage of English teaching. The article substantiates the educational potential of comics and presents the ways of integrating them into the process of a foreign language teaching. The research methods are theoretical analysis of literature and the articles on the problem of advantages of teaching English through comics in the classroom. The author considers this genre evokes teenagers’ positive emotions, supports their creativity and motivates them to do a complex speech-based activity - communicative writing.