مجلة الرسالة للدراسات الإعلامية
Volume 8, Numéro 2, Pages 22-33
2024-06-30

Investigating The Shift In Efl Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Ict Adoption In Response To Global Challenges

Authors : Abderrahmane Djahida . Mebitil Nawal .

Abstract

The present paper aims to investigate EFL teachers’ attitudes towards ICT use and how the global pandemic of Covid-19 impacts them especially when Various e-learning platforms were used to fit the needs of the new teaching and learning formats and face unprecedented challenges. This study uses an online questionnaire as the primary research tool to reach this end. It was administered to twenty-one (21) teachers in the English department at the Ibn-Khaldoun University of Tiaret, Algeria, who were randomly selected. The results showed that teachers acknowledge the usefulness of ICTs in general and during COVID-19. It was also found that there is diversity in teachers' qualifications and capacities regarding ICT competence and; therefore, ICT training seminars and workshops are urgently needed to meet the present educational requirements.

Keywords

E- learning ; ICT training ; global pandemic ; teachers’ attitudes