Analysis of EFL teachers skills, attitudes, and use regarding ICT in Ecuadorian public high schools

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Abstract:The theme Analysis of EFL teachers´ skills, attitudes, and ICT use in Ecuadorian public high schools has as purpose to investigate and analyze the EFL teachers skills, attitudes, and ICT use in their classes. This study was carried out in three public high schools placed in Cariamanga, Loja, Ecuador. The participants were ten English teachers whose ages ranged from 27 to 50 years old. The quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the process of this investigation. The quantitative method was used to collect and analyze the data gathered through a survey applied to ten EFL teachers, and an interview applied to six of them. While the qualitative method was used during the whole investigation process. Finally, the results revealed that most teachers have positive attitudes to use ICT in their EFL teaching process; however, the results also determined that teachers lack skills and knowledge to use modern technologies frequently inside their English classrooms due to lack of technological infrastructure, and training courses about ICT use, which hinder having a successful teaching-learning process through ICT use in public high schools.