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This work analyzes the role of the teaching practice program in the framework of the initial teachers’ education, planning and organizing professional - pedagogical practice in Croatia, especially the realization of practical training at the Teacher Training Department in Pula. The obtained results in a questionnaire made on students' attitudes show insufficient effectiveness of the implementation of teaching practice programs.

In the paper the authors present some views on the education of the teacher of the future. They emphasize that the problem doesn't lie with school pluralism and alternative education, but with the fact that the focus of the discussion must be switched to the starting point – the teacher. Besides classical education and training the teacher of the future will need new competencies, ways of acting and personal characteristics of the modern teacher in order to meet modern challenges. He will be characterized by the openness of experience, the flexibility of ideas and dedication to the principle of giving/receiving.

The aim of this study is to analyses and evaluates different methods in learning English as a foreign language. Effective teaching combines a number of methods (individual work, pair work, group work, role playing/simulation) so that the experience of the student is varied and the different learning styles of students can be catered for. The article seeks to answer the question which is the most effective method that enables students to make use of the English knowledge appropriately in actual communication. In order to do that, the students were given a questionnaire to explore their opinion about the effectiveness of learning methods. The research was carried out among the full time students who have been attending the courses of English as a foreign language at the University of Pula. The author concludes that the students find role play/simulation method as a most creative and successful method of studying language.

The practice of oral correction continues to receive wide acceptance in language classrooms. There are many challenges and complexities involved in providing effective feedback for foreign language learners. The study examines the students' opinion about correcting errors in learners' oral Business English as a foreign language. What is needed is continued systematic and rigorous research to investigate whether different types of feedback are more effective than others and to what extent this may be dependent on the instructional contexts and the characteristics of learners within them.