Tips to Advance Business Writing Skills at EFL Classes (Through the Example of "Letter of Complaint")

Bibliographic Details
Parent link:Ponte
Vol. 72, iss. 11.— 2016.— [P. 147-152]
Main Author: Kuimova M. V. Marina Valerievna
Corporate Author: Национальный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет (ТПУ) Физико-технический институт (ФТИ) Кафедра иностранных языков физико-технического института (ИЯФТ)
Other Authors: Nikiforov D. S. Denis Sergeevich
Summary:Title screen
Writing is a creative communicative skill to express thoughts. It is cognitively complex, requires much practice and is best learned through experience. Writing is one of the most challenging, time-consuming tasks in acquiring a foreign language. To improve students’ writing skills and accuracy, a teacher should encourage writing-thinking, provide instructions and examples of good writing in the target language, and give feedback focusing both on error correction (cohesion) and organization of writing (clarity, idea development, coherence). This paper explores difficulties of the development of business writing skills and gives recommendations on writing a letter of complaint at English as a foreign language classes.
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://earchive.tpu.ru/handle/11683/36150
http://dx.doi.org/10.21506/j.ponte.2016.11.11
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=652450