Teaching Generation Z : Methodological problems and their possible solutions

The importance of studying foreign languages is rarely questioned. Having failed to learn a foreign language, one might find it quite tricky to soar to success regardless of occupation, age or nationality. Learning a foreign language is a must for most of the world population. Nevertheless, only a small number of students can admit that they have mastered a foreign language easily, effortlessly and speak it fluently. By the end of secondary school, students usually succeed in mastering English at elementary or preintermediate levels. Yet, should they fail to sustain their level of language proficiency, many learners return to the beginner level, in many ways due to lack of proper motivation and a conservative approach to the teaching process. The situation might appear even more challenging in view of a seemingly decreasing interest in education. What is the reason for this? Is it because teachers are now teaching differently, or is that students are less capable of learning? Is there any reason that we fail to notice or tend to ignore? Is it possible to turn things around? These are some of the questions this paper aims to address.

to result in misunderstanding and poor training outcome. To address this concern, the study relies on the 'Generational Theory' developed by William Strauss and Neil Howe (1991) and adapted for Russia in 2004 by a team of scholars led by Eugenia Shamis, Rugenerations Project Coordinator (Shamis & Antipov, 2007). According to this theory, everyone can relate themselves to one of the following generations: • Baby Boomer Generation  • Generation X  • Generation Millennium or Y (1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000) • Generation Z (since 2000) The theory is based on the values of large groups To engage students and enhance their motivation, the communicative approach should be established as a teaching priority. The younger generation is very dynamic and versatile.
Therefore, it is difficult to meet everyone's learning aspirations equally, for there is a danger of destroying the stem of the whole system of education that can end up lopsided, sophomoric and unqualified. Thus, the communicative approach in teaching should be combined with constructivist strategies so that the teacher facilitates the process of learning and encourages students to be responsible, interactive and dynamic.   Secondly, a teacher of English who understands the terms of the game will be elevated in the eyes of students, and, as a result, the interest in the teacher's personality will increase interest in the subject he or she teaches.

Computerisation of society and online games
Thirdly, it is crucial to consider the general trend towards gamification -the process of adding games or game like elements to something (such as a task) so as to encourage participation. It is possible to create an interesting interactive educational game where, as a key to passing to a new level, it will be necessary to upload the The idea of a hypertextual information system is that a user has an opportunity to view documents (pages of text) in the desired order, rather than lineally as is customary in reading books. Hence, hypertext is often defined as 'a non-linear text'. This is achieved by creating a special mechanism linking different pages of the text using hypertextual links, i.e. the plain text has links like 'next-previous', and hypertext can build as many other links as the programmer likes. topic, but teachers should try not to limit students to the precise framework of the structure and genre so that they could feel free to be creative and build their own hypertextual algorithm while fulfilling the task.
It is important to update the information on this website regularly, add useful links and assignments such as a case study or a dilemma task that will provide freedom of choice and self-expression for the Generation Z students. The task of a teacher here is not to give out the translation of the word or the correct answer at once but create a 'problem solving' situation, set a challenge for the students to cope with, be able to  6. The coming generation of future students are better at typing than at writing, since they were born in the age of computers, smartphones, fast and cheap Internet and social networking.

Reading the context
As a consequence, modern children are often left to themselves in matters of finding the right information and developing their own views, their world outlook. Moreover, since today there are fewer 'filters' of information flows, the child's organism and brain learn to protect themselves, developing a reaction of indifference and abstraction from 'information noise' (Popova, 2016). Therefore, modern educators should not be surprised that children do not hear them, do not understand the instructions the first time round, and perceive information slowly.
Children usually have hundreds of 'online friends' they communicate with using short messages replacing emotions and speech figures with 'emojis' and 'memes'. In a most general interpretation, a meme is defined as 'an idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture' (Dawkins, 1976, 44). The quickest way to convert the external type of motivation to study a subject to an internal one is to praise students for the things they've done well.
It's difficult to explain this to some teachers today because there is a misconception that any compliment will decrease the enthusiasm of students, making them lazy and idle in the near future. Research suggests that praise is underused in both general-education and special-education classrooms (Kern & Clemens, 2007).
To make the praise effective and sincere for can help students see a connection between the invested effort and make them more interested in academic performance.
One more characteristic feature of modern children is that they are not used to solving complex problems on their own. They grew up in a fairly safe environment. In their childhood, loving parents decided which kindergarten, school or hobby group they would go to, the choice of the university and future profession was also made under parental control, only partially independently. These children are used to trusting adults making important decisions.
In this regard, teachers should be flexible and understanding. If the student loses interest to the project, they should ask him/her to look at the problem from a new angle, for example, from the position of competitors, not importers but exporters. Students of Generation Z should be enthusiastically motivated. At the same time, the teacher fulfils the duties of a leader who should consider interesting and prospective facets of a student's personality, notice what they are keen on and what areas or topics they are interested in. It is essential today, as Generation Z students will successfully cope with the task only if the topic aligns with their personal interests.

CONCLUSION
A fact of modern reality is that one of the market leaders, Twitter, is going to double the amount of the characters available in a single message. They will soon make it 280 instead of current 140. It is already causing much fuss among the users. Some of them approve of the initiative as they believe there are always many details left unexpressed when you are restricted to a short message. Others disagree, saying that it will take more effort to read and to grasp the main idea if there are more words in a single tweet. They claim that the whole spirit of 'the brief and sharp' messenger will be ruined.

One writer who supports longer tweets is Kurt
Wagner who writes, 'Twitter's character limit is a holdover from the app's early days when tweets were sent as texts, which were limited to 140 characters. It has since become one of the product's defining characteristics' (Wagner, 2017).
It is obvious that it will take time for the innovation to be totally accepted. But Facebook hasn't give up on the idea and keeps trying despite the negative reaction of some of the users and a risk of losing some customers. They continue implementing the initiative, claiming that in the end it will attract more people who will tweet. and actually have some to spare, we see more people tweeting' (Wagner, 2017). The point is that at present the whole system of education, each educational institution and each teacher in particular should follow the above-described model. They need to find out what the students expect from them, analyse their potential abilities in mastering a particular subject and adapt the content and methodology to the coming generation of 'education consumers'. But at the same time, it should be done in a wise and forward-looking manner -firstly, in order to attract more attention, effort and not to scare them away, and secondly, not to lose the valuable component of every subject by making it an item of goods but perceive it more as an opportunity granted.