Keyword: «correspondence»

The article is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of communication on the Internet between young people in France. Social networks such as Facebook, Tweeter, Instagram, Snapchat are popular all over the world, including France and French-speaking countries. Communication in the Internet has its own laws. Much of what is permissible in oral speech will seem out of place in writing. Social life is gaining momentum every day, enriching Internet slang with new units, including those borrowed from the English language.

Based on the fact that Internet communication has in no way replaced writing letters, the authors present the role of the competence of writing in teaching schoolchildren and students to communicate in a foreign language. Writing is becoming an important form of communication due to three characteristics inherent in communication partners: writing, and the mediated nature of communication and time delay. There is a mutual influence of tendencies towards differentiation, formalization, reduction of written speech, on the one hand, and a change in the nature of correspondence from a private register to a public one (Internet diaries, blogs, accounts, forums, chats, etc.), on the other.