Training Would-be Teachers: Premises and Results of a Content-based ESL Course

This article focuses on the description and discussion of a corpus of 12 lesson plans created by Second Language Acquisition MA students at Sapienza University of Rome in AY 2020-2021. The best practices selected represent valid case studies for a much broader reflection about the implementation of content-based instructional approaches in the Italian education system. Resorting to internationally acknowledged critics as well as zoomed views about content-based English Second/Foreign Language courses in Italy, the current study aims at developing a coherent and cohesive method for an effective application of content-based language teaching. Such a model can be exploited by aspiring and experienced teachers within the scope of developing transdisciplinary key competences for lifelong learning and the internationalisation of education systems in Italy and worldwide.