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

Abstract

This research study has as main goal to analyze the EFL teachers’ perception of Ecuadorian private high schools regarding the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for the teaching of English as foreign language: The methodology of this study allows to descriptive analysis with a quantitative and qualitative approach. The techniques that were used to collect information were the survey and the interview, the survey was applied to 10 English teachers, 5 male and 5 female teachers of a private high school in Quito city in the province of Pichincha in Ecuador; while, the interviews were made to 6 teachers, 3 male and 3 female teachers. The main results of this study indicate that teachers do not feel anxious when using ICT in EFL teaching because they have got training or have trained themselves in the use of ICT tools; a few teachers mention that age is a barrier for ICT use because elder teachers do not have the same ICT skills that younger teachers have.