This thesis deals with the subject of teaching and learning foreign language and the appropriate strategies, methods and approaches used by both students and teachers. Starting from the social constructionism and social forms of classwork as a wider context in which knowledge transfer takes place; the thesis explains the relevant glottodidactics research and factors that influence successful language acquisition. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the National Curriculum as a framework and template for foreign language teaching. Besides theoretical part, the importance is put on the empirical part as well. In other words, interview has been conducted with English language teacher from the Republic of Croatia with the aim of finding out how does the teaching environment work in practice and are the suggested methods in accordance with the curriculum, and the other way around, is the curriculum sufficient for employing contemporary teaching methods. The interview also provided an insight into teachers' opinion about the freedom and autonomy in their teaching environment and their attitudes towards the novelties they can apply in the classroom with the introduction of a new program called Škola za život.