Teachers’ role identities shape their teaching practices. However, research on the interplay between language teachers’ role identities and classroom technology integration is rather limited. Based on interview responses and classroom observations of eight K-12 language teachers, this study revealed two contrastive forms of role identities that were influential in technology use, namely the broader educator roles and the narrow subject teacher roles. Teachers with the two forms of role identities diverged in their technology use approaches, purposes, and resilience. The findings further revealed that teacher role identities interplayed with technology use in a mutually shaping and constantly evolving manner. The findings advocate greater attention to teacher role identities when examining and supporting classroom technology integration.
endingpage:
19
format.extent:
19
identifier.citation:
Lai, C., Lyu, B. N., Jiang, L. J., & Gong, Y. (2025). Language teachers’ professional identities and classroom technology integration. Language Learning & Technology, 29(1), 1–19. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73603
identifier.issn:
1094-3501
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73603
language:
eng
number:
1
publicationname:
Language Learning & Technology
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rights.license:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License