Ecuadorian high school teachers’ perceptions on ICT use in their EFL clases.

Abstract

The present research study discusses the perception of Ecuadorian high schools teachers about the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in their EFL teaching; to achieve this main objective, a descriptive analysis with a quantitative and qualitative approach was carried out and the data was gathered through the survey and interview techniques that were applied to twenty EFL teachers, ten male and ten female from a state and a private high school in the city of Quito, Ecuador; regarding the interviews, they were conducted to 6 teachers, 3 from public and 3 from private high schools. The main results of this study indicate that teachers have a positive attitude towards the use of ICT tools in the teaching of EFL and they are open and ready to receive training in this field because they are aware of the fast advances of the technology. Besides, some teachers consider age as a limiting factor for the implementation of ICT in the class. Finally, the results show that female teachers feel a little more intimidated than men with the use of technological devices.