Internet Resources: Optimization of Second Language Writing Skills Mastering during COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic forced the entire world community to reconsider its educational learning strategies. Modern Information and Communication Technologies have provided the mastery of writing skills by philology students during distance learning. Writing skills are acquired in writing texts of different genres: primary, written without the resource literature, and secondary, written by students based on primary sources. Interactive activities based on Internet resources enabled creating a virtual learning environment for mastering the second language written communication. This study analyzes various interactive activities on the Internet and suggests division into two groups: educational and controlling interactive activities. The study aims to define the effectiveness and methodological characteristics of the interactive activities to optimize the writing skills mastering during lockdowns. It presents the stages of text writing for users of the A2 language level. The paper gives examples of interactive activities based on communicative situations that teach to write a text at a sentence, paragraph, and text level. It also determines their goal, techniques, ways of control, and benefits of using such exercises for self-study of writing skills. The study concludes with recommendations of using communicative cases and activities to improve mastering written communication.

Comunidad Virtual Educativa y Competencias de Aprendizaje del Inglés en la I. E. Libertador Simón Bolívar

“…El valor del coeficiente de correlación de 0,622 indica una correlación positiva media. Frente a este resultado, existe congruencia con los resultados de la investigación de Svyrydjuk et al (2021), quienes demuestran la influencia que tienen los recursos de internet en la optimización del dominio de las habilidades de escritura en un segundo idioma en un contexto de confinamiento por el COVID 19.…”