Technology in Pedagogy: Teachers’ Perception Towards the Effectiveness of ICT Integration in Language Teaching

Abstract

In this 21st century, technology has become the knowledge transfer highway in most countries including the Philippines. Because of this, schools and educational institutions alike need to consider ICT integration in their curriculum (Ghavifekr, 2015). Watt (1980) states that beliefs and attitudes play a fundamental role in the way that teachers deal with ICT in the classroom This study investigates the teachers’ attitudes and perceptions towards the effectiveness of the use of ICT in English language teaching. This also aims at examining the relationship between teachers’ demographics such as age and teaching experience to their perception towards the effectiveness of ICT integration in language teaching. A modified questionnaire originally designed by Gulbahar and Guven (2008) was used to gather data from the language teachers of Alangalang, Leyte. The data for this quantitative research were analyzed for both descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS software. The results indicate that teachers strongly agree that ICT integration is an important tool in enhancing the teaching and learning process. Most teachers in this study strongly agreed that their students learn more effectively with the use of ICT as lessons designed are more engaging and interesting. Both the teachers’ age and their teaching experience as profile variables were found to have a significant relationship to their perception towards the effectiveness of ICT integration in the language classroom. Further researches may focus the level of actual and evident use of ICT in classrooms, the factors or challenges hindering teachers from incorporating ICT in instructions, learners’ perceived effectiveness of ICT towards their learning, as well as the support given by government and other stakeholders to teachers in trying to integrate ICT in the teaching and learning process.