The Development of Communicative Competence in Adolescents by Means of Dialogue with a Virtual Interlocutor

The possibilities of the development of communicative competence of the modern teenager with software modeling dialogue, such as virtual interlocutors and expert systems were considered. The principles of organization of information resources useful for the formation of communicative competence of adolescents were shown. Analyzed communication difficulties of adolescence, identified in the survey of students of a private school "Depository" in Moscow, highlighted certain categories of problems that adolescents face in interpersonal relationships. Based on the research of communicative difficulties teens composed communicative tasks that include teen virtual interlocutor and act as a mediation of communicative competence of the teenager. Revealed content is used when filling an information resource, created as a means of communication, the success of which is due to the level of development of communicative competence of the teenager.

1. Bolotova L.S. Sistemy iskusstvennogo intellekta: modeli i tekhnologii, osnovannye na znaniyakh [Artificial intelligence Systems: models and technologies based on knowledge]. Moscow: Finansy i statistika Publ., 2012. 664 p.
2. Bozhovich L.I. Problemy formirovaniya lichnosti [Problems of identity formation]. In Fel'dshtein D.I. 2-e izd. Moscow: Institut prakticheskoi psikhologii Publ., 1997. 352 p.
3. Dzhekson P. Vvedenie v ekspertnye sistemy [Introduction to expert systems]. Moscow: Vil'yams Publ., 2001. 624 p.
4. Emelin V.A., Tkhostov A.Sh., Rasskazova E.I. Psikhologicheskie faktory razvitiya i khronifikatsii tekhnologicheskikh zavisimostei [Elektronnyi resurs] [Psychological factors in the development and chronification technological addictions]. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie PSYEDU.ru [Psychological Science and Education PSYEDU.ru], 2013, no. 1. Available at: http://psyedu.ru/journal/2013/1/3262.phtml (Accessed 17.08.2015). (In Russ., Abstr. in Engl.).
5. Emel'yanov Yu.N. Aktivnoe sotsial'no-psikhologicheskoe obuchenie [Active socio-psychological training]. Sankt-Petersburg: Leningrad Publ., 1985. 168 p. 
6. Zhilinskaya A.V. Internet kak resurs dlya resheniya zadach podrostkovogo vozrasta: obzor psikhologicheskikh issledovanii [Elektronnyi resurs] [The Internet as a resource for solving problems in adolescence: a review of psychological research]. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie PSYEDU.ru [Psychological Science and Education PSYEDU.ru], 2014, no. 1. Available at: http://psyedu.ru/journal/2014/1/Jilinskaya.phtml (Accessed 12.08.2015). (In Russ., Abstr. in Engl.).
7. Koval' T.V. Osobennosti mezhlichnostnykh vzaimodeistvii u podrostkov, sklonnykh i ne sklonnykh k razvitiyu komp'yuternoi zavisimosti [Elektronnyi resurs] [The Peculiarities of interpersonal interactions in adolescents, inclined and not inclined to computer addiction]. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie PSYEDU.ru [Psychological Science and Education PSYEDU.ru], 2012, no. 4. Available at: http://psyedu.ru/journal/2012/4/3120.phtml (Accessed 17.08.2015). (In Russ., Abstr. in Engl.).
8. Petrovskaya L.A. Kompetentnost' v obshchenii [Competence in communication]. Moscow: MGU Publ., 1989. 216 p. 
9. Soldatova G., Chekalina A. Internet glazami detei i podrostkov megapolisa [Elektronnyi resurs] [The Internet through the eyes of children and teenagers of the metropolis]. Deti v informatsionnom obshchestve. Moya bezopasnaya Set': Internet glazami detei i podrostkov [Children in the information society. My secure Network: the Internet through the eyes of children and adolescents], 2009, no 1. Available at: http://detionline.com/assets/files/journal/1/city-children-in-internet_1.phtml (Accessed 17.08.2015).
10. Soldatova G., Kropaleva E. Territoriya svobody. Osobennosti rossiiskikh shkol'nikov kak pol'zovatelei Interneta [The Territory of freedom. Features of Russian schoolchildren as Internet users]. [Elektronnyi resurs]. Deti v informatsionnom obshchestve [Children in the information society], 2009, no. 2. Available at: http://detionline.com/assets/files/journal/2/ research1_2.phtml (Accessed 17.08.2015).
11. Tsukerman G.A. Psikhologiya samorazvitiya: zadacha dlya podrostkov i ikh pedagogov: Posobie dlya uchitelei [Psychology of self-development: a challenge for adolescents and their teachers: a Handbook for teachers]. Riga: Eksperiment Publ., 1995. 239 p. 
12. El'konin D.B. Izbrannye psikhologicheskie trudy [Selected psychological works]. Moscow: Pedagogika Publ., 1989. 560 p. 
13. Erikson E. Identichnost': yunost' i krizis: per. s angl. [ Identity: youth and crisis]; Tolstykh A.V. (eds.). Moscow: Group Progress Publ., 1996. 344 p. 
14. Amichai-Hamburger Y., Furnham A. The Positive Net. Computers in Human Behavior, 2007, no. 23, pp. 1033–1045.
15. Voiskounsky A.E. Internet Addiction in the Context of Positive Psychology. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2010, no. 3, pp. 541-549.
16. Juan Manuel Moreno-Manso, MaJosé Godoy-Merino, Ángel Suárez-Muñoz, M.Elena García-Baamonde. Communicative competence and the facilitating and perturbing factors in the socialisation of immigrant students. Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, no. 5, pp. 865–870.