The Development of Students’ Discourse Skills via Modern Information and Communication Technologies

This paper addresses the issue of students’ discourse skills development via new modern information and communication technologies (ICT). The authors (a) discuss the notion of discourse; (d) define the structure of the discourse competence; (c) develop a nomenclature of discourse skills, which can be developed by the use of modern information and communication technologies; (d) describe a study, which aimed to develop students’ discourse skills during a short-term development course.