Using the Moodle Platform in Teaching Business - Letter Writing to Students at English Classes

The paper considers the possibilities of using the Moodle learning management system when studying English at university. The peculiarities of teaching students a foreign language in a non-language university and the possibilities of increasing the effectiveness of learning by using distance (electronic) learning in comparison with the face-to-face format of similar labor intensity are noted. Written skills and abilities in the use of a foreign language are one of the important aspects of communicative competence. They are necessary for practical mastery of everyday speech and the language of specialty. The possibilities of learning management systems and distance learning facilitate the work of the teacher. The developed special interactive exercises are aimed at accelerated formation of students’ written skills as part of their foreign language communicative competence.