From Theory to Practice: English Language, CLIL and Technologies from Teacher Training to Students’ Learning Outcomes

The presentation is aimed at showing the potential of teacher training in the field of English language,CLIL and technologies in terms of professional development and improvement of teaching practicesand students’ learning outcomes.Reference will be made to two online training initiatives carried by two of the authors, designed bothas training and research paths. The initiatives, aimed at guiding participants in the discovery andexperimentation of webtools for language learning and CLIL will be described in order to highlight thedesign of the pathways, the learning process and some of the main outcomes, detailed in terms ofparticipants’ interaction, language, methodological and technological outcomes, products realizedduring the courses. The impact of these initiatives on the teacher’s profile will be directly mentioned bythe third author, a primary school teacher, passionate about language learning, CLIL and innovativemethodologies who attended all the initiatives proposed and was eager to experiment what she hadlearnt in her classes: from theory to practice. The lesson plans and the activities carried out with herstudents, also in the frame of national projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, will bedepicted to show the direct impact of teacher training for better teaching and better student learningoutcomes and for enhancing innovative teaching processes, English language competences, digitalcompetences and transversal competences.The lessons learnt and the inputs received from the training paths attended by the teacher will beconsidered and examined from the perspective of a new classroom language learning environment, awider use of technologies during the English and the CLIL lessons, a higher level of participation andenthusiasm of the students, better learning outcomes.