Innovation in Language Learning

Today, rapid advances in ICT have influenced the world of education considerably. As technology becomes readily available for use in or outside the classrooms, it is undoubtedly shaping the way we teach and changing our profession as educators. It can be stated that adoption of technology in language teaching and learning environments has been so quick when we consider the history of language teaching. However, quality training for language teachers is critical for bringing success when they are using ICT in their own teaching environments. Thus, it is increasingly important to equip teachers with the knowledge, skills and expertise, necessary to integrate technology for their students. At this point, the quality of language teacher education programs come to the fore. However, in their formal training, language teachers are mostly not well informed about the integration of ICT into language teaching and are graduated from their programs without having the necessary knowledge, skills and expertise. This study seeks to gain insights from the literature about the teacher educators’ role as a model in educating the prospective language teachers in terms of ICT integration into the language teaching process.