AbstractCurrent trends in the teaching of foreign languages arising from the Common European Reference Framework for languages aim to increase the quality of communication among the European citizens of different language and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, they attempt to offer a wide range of methodological recommendations as to how to achieve this goal. Therefore, the purpose of the presentation is to discuss recent trends in the teaching of foreign languages with a special focus on the approaches which help to improve the quality of learning and which motivate a learner to be more independent and responsible on one hand, and more collaborative on the other.