The Role of Social Tasks and Technologies for the Improvement of Written Communication Skills in a Foreign Language

This paper presents the results of implementing a plurilingual approach based on information and communication technologies for the development of writing abilities in a foreign language. The study examines what tasks are suitable for the improvement of written communication skills in the target language and what technological tools foster their completion in a university context. The data analyzed are based on an empirical study conducted with groups of students learning French as a third language in 2014 and 2015. The study results show a trend towards an awareness of intercultural differences in communication with French-speaking partners, as well as development of strategies for writing correct and complex texts. The use of freely accessible online technological tools plays an important role for these results