The article deals with the specifics of the hypertext competence formation, intermediate hypertext communication, the peculiarities of electronic discourse in multimedia, interactive, hypertext space, since foreign segment of the network plays a special role of the leading source of knowledge as the main educative resource and the sphere of foreign language communication. The use of hypertext communication makes it possible to significantly increase the educational and scientific activity, encouraging students to continuous creativity. The student can orientate him- or herself in the online materials for the purpose of education and learning a foreign language, interactively or not interactively, using all kinds of texts, the ability to work with information, to receive, to process, to send; the ability to work with online texts, hypertext in all multimedia presentations, to understand them, to find the necessary information, to be able to analyze them, to understand the dialogue language of texts. To prepare the student for work in an interactive network, it is necessary that in the learning process there is a constant use of new technologies in all parts of the learning activity.