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ТІЛ ЖӘНЕ ӘДЕБИЕТ: ҚАЗАҚ, ОРЫС, ШЕТ ТІЛДЕРІ
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CREATIVE WRITING TASKS AND EFFECTIVE ACTIVITIES FOR
DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS
Pernebayeva A.K.
Taraz State Pedagogical Institute, Taraz
English Language Teaching is very important because of the global status of English.
English Language Teaching is a process that requires great efforts on the part of all the
participants. It has been said that we cannot really teach the language, we can only create
conditions in which it will develop spontaneously in mind in its own way. Writing is an intricate
and complex task; it is the most difficult of all the language abilities to acquire. Teaching English
writing to Kazakh learners has many challenges. Therefore, they are more prone to committing
errors. Traditional methodologies do not help a lot. Unless the teacher is able to create an interest
in the minds of the learners, he can‘t expect the desired results.
A good teacher teaches, a better teacher explains, and the best teacher inspires. If a teacher
keeps on teaching following the traditional method, the classroom activities become passive and
monotonous. Therefore, the teacher should try new methods other than the traditional methods of
teaching and make the students be better achievers.
The use of English is more widespread because of the business-environment revolution.
Nowadays, English is used by all people worldwid e because of the ongoing advances in
technology such as internet, and other businesses. English also plays an important role in
education and students are expected to use it effectively. English is necessary for all professions
nowadays. However, teaching English in the Kazakh world is challenging. Many students are
able to understand the language, but most of the students face the problem of communicating
their ideas effectively. The problem is the lack of both: the adequate stock of English vocabulary
and creativity in writing. It is evident that writing is the biggest challenge for many students.
Therefore, many associations exert their effort to improve learning English. Still, it is a very
tough mission for teachers to teach English creatively so that students could become independent
learners and benefit a lot from the innovative teaching techniques adopted by the teacher.
The basic means of learning a foreign language is a language environment, and all other
means are auxiliary. Since school learning process is aimed at the practical mastering a foreign
language, and today writing as an aspect of speech competence is of great importance. Mastering
the written speech allows a man to actually use the knowledge of a foreign language, being
wherein out of the language environment, communicating with native speakers through modern
means of communication. The opportunity to write personal and formal letters, the necessity to
fill the questionnaires, blanks of documents, etc. motivate students to take an active acquisition
of written communication in the target language [3, 145p].
Teaching writing is hard and often frustrating. Mary Williams refers to writing as ‗the
single most complex learning task faced by any child‘ [4, 15-25p.p.]. As it is obvious from the
statement, for decades, teachers have assigned writing, graded it, and watched pages covered in
red ink stuffed into the backs of notebooks, never to be read again. Writing was the most ignored
of the language skills. Traditionally when students wrote in L2 the purpose of writing activity
was to catch grammar spelling and punctuation errors. The writing was carefully controlled or
guided. In more advanced classes students were assigned compositions or other kinds of texts to