In an era when digital tools have become inseparable from the language classroom, a team of Chinese researchers asked not what technology teachers should have, but what they must believe about themselves to use it well. Surveying 552 foreign language instructors across twelve provinces, they found that confidence and intention — inner states, not external provisions — are the strongest predictors of digital competence. The study quietly reframes a longstanding institutional assumption: that equipping teachers with better hardware or more training is sufficient, when in fact those investments o