Ontological models of situations applied to the task of computer-aided testing of foreign languages proficiency

The paper discusses modern approaches towards the design of complicated intellectual computer systems assessing foreign language proficiency, e.g. checking students’ academic progress in a higher educational establishment. The paper provides insight into the means of developing ontology-based situation models for the tasks requiring that a person’s command in English could be assessed, which is done within the paradigm of bounded rationality. The paper demonstrates the characteristic behavioral features of the holons, each of which assumes the role of one of E. de Bono’s six thinking hats on the example of the English personal pronouns. The processes of negotiating the “opinions” and “mutual concessions” are defined by the color of the thinking hat that does the best job of describing people’s motives and behavior pattern logic.