The use of technology-enhanced methods to improve writing skills in the foreign language classroom

Introduction. Modern technology is at the heart of today’s education and it is not possible in our modern world to imagine a course without technology being involved both in its design and delivery. Especially using of technology-enhanced methods in second language learning is a feature of today’s education. Instructors and institutions need to investigate how students use it in order to ensure that it is productive for them and their students. Modern IT devices and various applications have considerably facilitated language teaching and learning for different purposes. The emergence of different educational tools and software has motivated the teachers to integrate educational technology into their lessons. These methods has fundamentally changed the way we learn, making it more engaging, but also challenging.

The emergence of different educational tools and software has motivated the teachers to integrate educational technology into their lessons. Technology has fundamentally changed the way we learn, making it more engaging, but also challenging.

We conducted a training experiment using tasks created on Internet platforms to improve students' writing activity. In the control group, classes were held traditionally. During the experiment, I used the Kahoot platform most often. It is a popular learning platform for conducting quizzes, creating tests and educational games. The platform has a web version. The main mode of Kahoot is the quiz creation mode. Recently, several more functions have been added to it, which can be used with maximum benefit in English lessons and inspire students with self-study and diversify assignments. Kahoot is also suitable for competitive group games. To do this, there are two modes on the platform — Challenge and Host live. Another platform that has also attracted the attention of both teachers and students is Baamboozle. This is a very recently appeared service. He is called the designer of didactic games. He will help the teacher to conduct didactic games in the classroom, where team competitions can be organized. A lot of informative and educational tasks on various topics can be found on the ReadWriteThink website.

During the experiment, the following results were shown (Figure 1).

• F igure 1. The results of the control section of students' knowledge of the control and experimental groups after the educational experiment.

The figure shows that the level of written activity of students in the experimental group has increased markedly compared to the beginning of experimental pedagogical practice: from 57.4% at the ascertaining stage of the experiment to 80% at the formative stage. the stage of the experiment, in the control group - the level of writing activity has not changed.

Positive dynamics of educational achievements of schoolchildren in practice:

• -    the majority of schoolchildren have formed a positive motivation to study English and literature;

• -    communication skills are developing more actively, the skill of a creative approach to solving educational tasks is being formed, speech and written development is being improved.

Conclusion. We concluded that more research was needed about digital writing tools. Based on the results obtained in the course of experimental pedagogical work on the problem of the development and formation of written activity based on the use of Internet resources, it seems possible to conclude that:

• -    the use of Internet resources and platforms has a positive effect on the quality and speed of learning;

• -    the use of websites creates conditions for active mental activity of students, stimulates intellectual activity of students and improves communication skills;

• -    the use of educational Internet resources when teaching English allows you to optimally organize the lesson and achieve many goals that are set for the discipline "Foreign Language" at the present time;

• -    with the help of the use of information technologies in the educational process in English, the motivation and creative activity of students has significantly increased, which ultimately led to the effective formation of cognitive activity.