The effectiveness of intercultural comparison tasks in written discourse development: An empirical research

The paper aims at investigating the effectiveness of writing intercultural comparative essays during content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classes. This study briefly reviews the recent research into the written discourse competence development and examines if and how these results can be mirrored in currently applied second language teaching. Highlighting the prominence of intercultural comparison tasks in acquiring discourse competence and drawing largely from the questionnaire-based study, the author proposes suggestions for the written discourse improvement more fully addressing the task- and student-related dimensions of foreign language learning techniques.