RETROSPEKTIVNI OGLED JEZIČKIH VEŠTINA U NASTAVI STRANOG JEZIKA I STATUS VEŠTINE PISANjA

Abstract

At the beginning of the twentieth century L2 teaching practice has been established based on the theoretical framework and practice of L1 teaching. Striving to meet the needs of L2 students sufficiently there was a need to shift the focus of the teaching practice through many traditional and contemporary approaches. Although today there is a rather equivalent distribution among all four language skills in the classroom, for a long period of time the writing skill has been marginalized. In order to understand the status of the writing skill in the L2 classroom, this study attempts to recapture the development and the position of the writing skill from the middle of the XX century to the contemporary practice today in relation to the status of other language skills. In this research we have applied a descriptive and a comparative analysis to discover that the writing skill position has just recently obtained a coexisting, equivalent status in the L2 class- room in relation to other skills and the results enlighten the teaching techniques that have been utilized for the writing skill respectively in the transition from the traditional towards the contemporary teaching approaches.