Teachers’ perception on the use of ICT tools in ELT
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Department of English Education
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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.