Ecuadorian private high school teachers perceptions on ICT use in their EFL classes

Abstract

This research study focuses on the fact that technology is nowadays everywhere, including language education. Therefore, this study was carried out to identify factors that may be considered as barriers or positive influences such as age, gender, training among others, for which, quantitative methodology was used to obtain measurable results from the surveys and qualitative methodology to interpret the responses obtained from the administered interviews. A total of ten English teachers, five female and five male, whose ages ranged from twenty-two to sixty-one and work at two different private high schools in Quito, Ecuador, were the population considered for this research process. The findings revealed that even though there is some evidence pointing at gender as a factor to determine the use of ICT in the EFL classroom or not, the results showed that age and adequate training, at a considerable lower degree, are the true crucial factors that make teachers not to use ICT in the EFL classroom