Teacher and Technology in Foreign Language Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perspective from the Philosophy of Technology

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, online learning became a contingency plan for the abrupt school closure. A whole range of problems arose due to the lack of preparedness for "online learning for all". This paper focuses on the problems of online language teaching and learning and attempts to address the issues of the relationship between teacher and technology, and the potential of technology, by adopting new ideas from the philosophy of technology in recent years, such as "being rejected by technology" and "the mediating role of technology". Only through collaboration with technology can teachers become complete actants and agents in online teaching. In order to fully explore the potential of technology in online learning, the positive mediating role of technology needs to be kept in mind. Rather than the conventional theory of "technology as tool", "human-machine coupling" is a better attitude for us to adopt.