SUMMARY
Objective. The article presents the results of studying the specifics of Internet texts understanding by young readers. Athors have done scientifically based analysis of the specifics of Internet texts understanding texts at a young age, depending on the level of experience of Internet using, thinking and speech development, and the level of internet-oriented personality. The regularities of the dynamics of understanding success at each stage of the comprehension process have been revealed.Materials & Methods. Theoretical (deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization), empirical (experiment, method of semantic and pragmatic interpretations, content analysis; subjective scaling, multimedia experiment, tests (Ebbinghaus test, method of “Establishing regularities” by B.L. Pokrovsky, KOT by V.N. Buzyn, E.F. Vanderlik) and statistical methods (primary statistics, correlation analysis) were used for this purpose. The sample of the experiment consisted of 120 males and females. The study of the specifics of understanding were conducted by the author's method “Success of understanding the texts of the Internet”. This method is presented in the article. Also, authors were used the author’s method “Experience and orientation of the Internet user” to determine the level of experience of Internet using and the level of internet-oriented personality. Interpretive methods were based on specific principles of systemic, activity, cognitive, psycholinguistic, genetic approaches. Young age was chosen because this period young people starts to get work experience, to form career ambitions, to get the first experience of professional training at the workplace. People of this age actively use the Internet at home and often at work. Some of them are confident in their Internet competence. They don’t even think about what is it depends on, what is it determined by, and how effective is their communication on the Internet.Results. The indicators of the success of Internet texts understanding were determined in a sample of young people depending on the level of experience of Internet using, thinking and speech development and internet-oriented personality. Correlations were also established between the success of Internet texts understanding at a young age and the these subjective factors.Conclusions. It was found that the success of young people’s Internet texts understanding at the stage of interpretation is only from 16.3% to 29.1% of the content load. It has been established that the readers with the high level of internet-oriented personality and thinking and speech development, understand more content of the text. But the influence of the factor of experience of Internet using on the success of understanding is almost twice as weak. The adequacy of the assessment of the Internet texts understanding is also related to the level of thinking and speech development and the internet-oriented personality. However, under the influence of the investigated factors, this indicator deteriorates from 79.7% to 60.2% due to the effect of unjustified confidence of users with a high level of development. The consistency of the emotional attitude at a young age is more determined by the specificity of the Internet texts than by these subjective factors. The correlations are insignificant, and the level of emotional understanding is quite low, up to 17.7%. So, it need to form of special skills for working with internet text to improve the success of understanding. It has been proven that the most difficult thing in Internet texts understanding for young people are the emotional understanding, predicting from the illustration and interpreting the semantic load of the texts. To improve these and other indicators of understanding, corrective and developmental work is recommended. The priorities of this work should be exercises for the development of thinking and speech and awareness of the motivation for using cyberspace, becaust these factors have the most strong impact on the process of understanding in youth.