DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING SKILLS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN AT ENGLISH LESSONS
The article considers the psychological and pedagogical characteristics of writing skills teaching at the English lessons in a secondary school. The article also describes how the approach of foreign languages teaching changed recently. Each level of the development of English teaching methods describes the skills which were in demand at that precise moment. The article considers the question about writing in English as an independent skill or as a skill which helps teaching of speaking, reading and listening. New requirements to the writing in English skills are described, and the list of themes of writing which graduates of schools can create is presented. The article also describes the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard to the writing skills on the basic level of education.