The webinar is organized by DC4LT in partnership with the 14th International Conference on Innovation in Language Learning. The webinar is open to all participants of the conference, but also to anybody interested in the topic.

In this talk, we will present an overview of all DC4LT project results, including two surveys assessing how language teachers use digital technologies, two series of webinars for language teachers, digital materials for language teachers created in the project, and more.

In this talk, we will present a new digital competence assessment framework specifically designed for language teachers. The design of the framework is based on a survey of assessment frameworks and methods available to assess teachers’ digital competence. The Digital Competence Assessment framework for Language Teachers provides a general reference frame for developers of digital competence models for language teachers. The framework is accompanied by an assessment tool that can be used the language teachers who wish to assess their digital competences or find guidance to develop them.

We will also present the main modes of training and will make a brief overview of the most known teacher training models and frameworks in Language Teachers Education and CALL Teachers Education. We will then discuss the benefits and challenges that face the language teacher trainers specifically in the context of the online training.

In this talk, we will present our experience of teaching online in Virtual Reality (VR) during the pandemic. When most teaching had to rapidly switch to the online mode because of the pandemic-related restrictions, we started using desktop-based VR apps instead of or in addition to the conventional video-conferencing tools. We will give a live demo and a hands-on experience for those who with to try VR.