Storybooks as a Way to Improve Language and Cultural Literacy

In teaching foreign languages, it is getting more and more obvious that teachers can no longer limit their goals to the creation and development of the language skills. At the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj-Napoca, Romanian as a foreign language is accompanied by productive activities and exercises, in order to promote an open attitude towards perspectives and new cultures among students. The project "Storybooks as a way to Improve foreign language and cultural literacy for students within "Iuliu Hatieganu" University, Cluj" has allowed the development of writing language skills, by creating stories in Romanian, but, on the other hand, it also implied a subtle dimension for the development of non-linguistic skills, namely cultural, digital and health literacy. The benefit was threefold: for teachers - an accurate diagnosis of the issues for each level of language, for students - an initiatic journey projected into the metaphors of the text and for all the participants - an avoidance of the classic didacticism, but not of the professionalism.