The Challenge of Adapting the Way of Teaching Romanian as a Foreign Language to the New Generations' Learning Styles

ABSTRACT: The development of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages determined the creation of a general system for the assessment of language skills in the teaching and assessment process of a native or non-native language, which blurred the linguistic and cultural features of the language in the process of language acquisition. Thus, in language teaching, one could observe some general trends, at the European level, such as: highlighting the relation between the culture and civilization that is being studied to one's own national culture, but also to other known cultures; the diversification of academic strategies by combining traditional and modern methods; diversifying the forms of assessment of foreign language learning through complementary methods; the use of new information and communication technologies in the process of teaching - learning - assessment focusing on the needs, interests, capabilities and skills of the learner.   KEYWORDS: teaching, gen Z, millennials, language, linguistics, academic