Teaching Compulsory and Optional Subjects in Contemporary Schools

The paper sets out to analyse the status of the modern foreign language as a compulsory National Curriculum subject taught at primary level in Romanian and English contemporary schools. Another central issue is that of adaptation to and assimilation of the new educational changes. Whether a subject is optional or compulsory, the teacher will always try to be proficient in his/her work regardless of his/her nationality. Thus, the talented teacher has a major role in developing pupils’ foreign language competencies.