CALL teacher education as an impetus for L2teachers in integrating technology

The ultimate goal of CALL teacher education is to enable L2 teachers to integrate CALLtechnology into their classroom with confidence and knowledge. As a way to achieve this goal,an increasing number of studies have paid attention to the integration of CALL technologyinto the teacher education program and into the classroom. Nonetheless, there is little specificresearch into L2 teachers’ integration of technology into the classroom in relation to theirprior technology education. As a means of better understanding the complexity of L2 teachers’integration of technology into the classroom, this paper proposes a spherical model of suchintegration by reviewing and synthesizing the relevant literature. Drawing on this model, thepaper emphasizes the importance of CALL teacher education with regard to L2 teachers’integration of technology into the classroom. Next, it discusses how the model can contributeto future research on such integration