Rethinking language teaching and training procedures between online and of ine communication

The paper analyses the Italian National Plan for Training the English Teachers at Primary Schools. This Plan was promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education to cope with the last and most recent educational reform that introduced English as a school subject into the curriculum at primary schools. A panel of experts worked to a national training plan for English primary teachers which will soon be tested. In this paper we will deal with three main topics: 1) the teachers’ awareness of their blended professional training, 2) the theoretical foundations underpinning this new educational challenge, 3) the new teaching models involving integrated technology that the Plan for Training the English Teachers at Primary School starting in September 2012 are meant to generate.