Language teacher education in CALL: history and perspectives

Language teacher education in CALL: history and perspectives

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Over the last years, the new technologies have changed the way we relate to information and communicate with other people, which has brought Hotpoint HUE61GS Ultima Free Standing A/A Electric Cooker with Ceramic Hob 60cm on impact to foreign language teaching and learning, and, consequently, to the area of foreign language teacher education.The abbreviation CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) has been used to designate the processes of language teaching and learning with the use of computers, and language teacher education in CALL to name teacher education for and with the use of new technologies, since a number of authors point to the interdependence of both processes.We intend in this article to present an overview of the literature of the area of language teacher education in CALL nowadays and discuss issues related to the use of new technologies concerning its integration to teacher education Umbrella Stand and the functional and institutional roles to be taken.We also present two proposals of teacher education with the use of new technologies which are being implemented and at the same time studied in Brazil, which we believe have essential elements for the development of language teachers for and with the use of new technologies currently.