English today: An Overview on Teacher-Training

The contemporary digital era has largely contributed to the exponential spread of English worldwide catalyzing numberless changes in all social spheres of our lives and having an impact on foreign language teaching, too. Directly/indirectly, it has induced transformations and forced pedagogues to face and address new classroom applications. Within this unprecedented and ever-changing scenario, training teachers in English as a foreign language (FL) is a challenge that has become vibrant today. The present essay presents an overview on teacher-training in the Italian/European scenario as a way to investigate the past, learn from it and identify those missing features in teacher-training that need to be addressed in contemporary training courses.