Multimedia technologies in building professionally oriented written skills of IT specialists

• Main Author: Natalia Shandra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wydawnictwo LIBRON 2018-12-01
• Series: Konteksty Pedagogiczne
• Subjects: written English professionally oriented communication; IT specialists; functions and duties; correspondence; genres; types of communications
• Online Access: https://kontekstypedagogiczne.pl/kp/article/view/33

The article reveals the peculiarities of written English professionally oriented communication of IT specialists. In the framework of the main situ-ations of written English professionally oriented communication (business cor-respondence, correspondence with colleagues and managers) the functions of the communication realize: contact, information, inducing, cognitive, emotive, influencing ones and fence-mending. The genres of written English professio-nally oriented communication of IT specialists include: private and business e-mail correspondence, texting in chats and forums, posting on net announ-cement boards, memo, and reports. The main types of this communication are formal (communication with colleagues), semi-formal and formal communica-tion (communication with suppliers, clients, managers), analytical and scientific communication (reports). Each type of communication has its peculiar stylistic feature concerning lexical and grammatical presentation.