Teachers' Motivation on the Use of ICTs in Teaching and Learning English

Abstract

The present research entitled Teachers' Motivation on the Use of ICTs in Teaching and Learning English aimed to find out the teachers' use of ICTs in teaching and learning English and to explore the English language teachers' motivation on the use of ICTs in teaching and learning process. I used quantitative research method adopting survey design to carry out the study. The population of the study included all the secondary level English teachers from Baglung district. Thirty secondary level English teachers were selected by using purposive non-random sampling strategy. A set of questionnaire containing open-ended and close ended questions were used for collecting the required data of this study. Similarly, the data were analyzed and interpreted by using numerical data with description. It was found that majority of teachers used ICT tools like computer, laptop, mobile phones, multimedia, social media, social networking and mobile assisted language learning. In the same way, it was also found that teachers appeared incitement in ICTs while teaching and learning English. Moreover, this research also showed that use of ICTs in ELT made teaching and learning interesting, updated the teachers with new technologies, promoted their technical skills, and improved the nature of teaching learning process from traditional to modern one. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter includes the background of the study, statement of the problems, objective of the study, research questions, rational of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with review of the related theoretical literature, review of the related empirical literature, implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework. Third chapter includes research design, population, sample and sampling strategy, sources of data, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter is about the interpretation of the result. Student’s responses have been presented in suitable themes. And the last fifth chapter is all about the conclusion and recommendations of the policy, practices, and further related research. Finally it includes references and appendices.