Using The Case Method for Teaching Business Writing to Economics Students

Abstract

The urgent task of modern didactics remains the development and improvement of techniques and methods that contribute to the intensification of the educational process and provide students with the opportunity to develop language skills in conditions typical of real everyday or business communication. One of the means of increasing the effectiveness of the formation of students' abilities and skills of oral and written business communication is training using case technology. The results of the analysis of scientific works prove that various aspects of the case method application are sufficiently widely covered in foreign and domestic scientific and pedagogical literature and periodicals. Domestic and foreign researchers were engaged in the analysis of the effectiveness of the case method in the educational process and the formation of a certain set of skills among students; studied the typology of cases; considered the structure of work on the case; researched the use of the case method in foreign language learning; studied the application of the case method for the formation of various competencies during foreign language learning. However, the issue of using the case method as a pedagogical tool in the professional training of future economists for teaching business writing in the process of learning a business foreign language remains insufficiently developed. Therefore, the purpose of our research is to analyze the case method as a type of interactive technology, its potential and conditions of successful application for business writing in a foreign language.