TRAINING FUTURE LANGUAGE TEACHERS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF 21ST CENTURY SKILLS FOR LEARNERS USING DIGITAL

. The transition from the industrial era to the digital era has reshaped contemporary society and has questioned some of its values and benchmarks. We no longer imagine our lives without the achievements of this era – simplified unlimited real-time access to information and digital distractions, the ability to find new interests, discover new ideas, and share them with people, online communication, self-learning ease and others. The use of these assets modifies the interpersonal relations, the attitude towards the information, the perception of oneself and its importance for the society. All these changes have their impact on the different institutions of society and even those considered to be the most stable, such as the education system and the vocational education system. Under these conditions, these two systems, responsible for the preparation of the younger generations for the construction of new civilizations with advanced technologies and for existence in these societies, must remain at the forefront of social and technical innovations while ensuring respect for their humanist side. On the example of the training of modern language teachers the author aims to analyse the instruments that the professional-pedagogical teaching system should have in order to train teachers ready to respond to the challenges of the digital age, ready to participate in the innovation of the education system, ready to give their help to the children of the "figital" era (stage of the development of the digital era when the real and virtual coexist and combine). To remain competitive the education system must develop its IT- and technical performances while keeping its greatest asset - the real contact with the learner, that is to say, with the student who is at the centre of his concerns, the student whose future depends directly on its decisions. To do this, the system of vocational training of teachers must reanalyse its programs from this angle and, in case of need, change their content or introduce new programs.