An Experiment on Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Romanian Schools Using Mastery Learning Strategies

Abstract

The last 29 years of education in the democratic system in Romania have shown that the use of mastery learning strategies is not present in our nowadays teaching-learning process. Even though studies were carried out to show the effectiveness of these strategies teachers still feel reluctant whether to implement a mastery learning model or not. The subject emphasized in this paper is related to the implementation of a mastery learning strategy during the teaching of English as a second language in a public school in Bucharest, Romania. Keywords: education, mastery learning, Romanian schools, knowledge, learning strategies