Investigating Teachers Perceptions Towards Call: A Study Conducted In Khyber Pakhtunkhawa

Abstract

The purpose of the research based study was to investigate the teachers’ attitudes towards the use and incorporation of computerized technology in language teaching and learning. The main objective of this study is to find out the problems faced by the English language teachers during teaching English language. To identify what types of technologies English language teachers use in language classrooms. The study also explores teachers’ knowledge of computer technologies and their formal training of the use of these technologies. Computer contributes to all fields of language like grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the online development of other programs. The data was collected through questionnaire containing open-ended and close-ended questions form 150 English teachers including Private and Public sector educational institutions from KPK. The results of the questionnaire indicate significant statistics differences of the teachers who were formally trained and those who were not in terms of their perceptions towards Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The results show that only proper training is needed and simple
familiarity with computer cannot make a difference. Teachers training, provision of the technological tools and proper management change teachers attitudes towards the use of technology in language teaching and learning.