Teachers’ perception on the use of ICT tools in ELT

Abstract

The thesis entitled Teachers’ Perceptions on the Use of ICT tools in ELT is an attempt to explore the secondary level English teachers’ perceptions towards using ICT tools in ELT and also find out the problems and challenges faced by English teachers while using ICT tools in classroom. In order to carry out this study I followed mixed method and survey as research design. To meet the objectives of this research study, I randomly selected 40 secondary level English teachers from 15 public secondary schools of Kathmandu district using purposive non-random sampling procedure. Questionnaire was used to collect the data for this study. The findings of the study show that teachers have positive beliefs on use of ICT for English language learning. They believe language learning is facilitated by using ICT.ICT tools to improve achievement levels, inspire creative thinking and encourage students to become self-learners to have access to the authentic and verities of learning materials, to make sustainable and reliable learning. Similarly, it shows that majority of teachers believed that using ICT tools in the classroom is not frustrating rather it helps to motivate students teaching learning activities. It increases students' autonomous and participation in English language teaching and learnings. This thesis has been organized into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter includes review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter consists of Survey design, Population, Sampling procedure source of data and research tool of the study. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results and the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations at three different areas (policy related, practice related and further research related). Finally, references and appendices are presented.