Attitudes of Higher Secondary English Teachers Towards The Use of Computer and the Internet
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2008
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Faculty of education
Abstract
The global spread of Information and Communication Technology has created
the great impacts in all daily activities of human life. Education sector
including Language Teaching can not be isolated from the new changes in
education system of the world. Considering the issues of implementing the
technologies in educational and curricular activities, this study has focused on
the end users' attitudes towards the modern communication and information
tools: computer and the Internet.
This study is has been carried out to study the attitudes of Higher Secondary
English Language Teachers of Kathmandu valley and their perception on the
basis of their personal characteristics, relative computer and internet
advantages, cultural perception, computer competence and the availability of
computer and the internet.
The study has concluded with the findings that majority of the teachers have
positive attitudes towards the computer and the internet. Although less than
twenty five percent English teachers of Higher Secondary School in
Kathmandu valley are still away from computer and the internet access, they
are aware of use of computer and the Internet and have the positive attitudes
towards the use of them in curricular activities. All teachers are interested to
increase the computer and the internet access in the future.
This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter is the introductory part
and sets the background information about the impact of computer and the
internet in education to national integral development. It also contains the
review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the
study. Second chapter carries out the methodology used in the study. This chapter
show the steps adopted in conducting the research. Sources of data, sampling
procedures, instrumentation, and process of data collection, research design,
research variables, reliability, validity and limitations of the study are the main
subjects included in the chapter.
The third chapter explores the data presentation, analysis and interpretation of
the selected data. Computer assisted analysis has been adopted in presenting the
data. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) has been used for
quantitative and descriptive data analysis and NVivo-7 has been used to
interpret the qualitative data (interviews and observation) in this chapter. All
descriptive data have been presented on table format and detail explanation has
been used to interpret the qualitative data. This chapter covers the overall tasks
to get the objectives of the study.
Finally, the fourth chapter covers the findings of the study and its pedagogical
implications.
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Language teaching, ICT