Ecuadorian public high school teachers 769 perceptions on technological resources used by teachers in their EFL classrooms during the COVID19 pandemic

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Abstract: The research entitled Ecuadorian public high school teachers perceptions on technological resources used in their EFL classrooms during COVID 19 pandemics has as general objective to analyze technological resources used by teachers in their EFL classroom.Present work was carried out with the participation of 10 EFL Teachers of high school in the cities of Santa Elena, Salinas, La Libertad,and Guayaquil. Themixed-method was employed by using quantitative and qualitative approaches, techniques used wereinterviewsand surveys; instrumentsusedteacher squestionnaires. Results revealed that technological resources used in EFL teaching are YouTube, WebPages, PowerPointPresentation (PPT), educational applications,such as Kahoot andQuizzes,online dictionaries, such asWord reference.By using electronic devices, they were able to have their classes at home without exposition to pandemic.Moreover, confinement and change in online modality have made teachers develop technological skills and dynamically integrate digital resourcesas complement communicate with their students, mobile learning provides a great opportunity to have knowledge everywhere and anytime.