ICT Integration Trends in EFL (English as Foreign Language) Classrooms

Sitti Hadijah, Shalawati

2019

Abstract

Since the integration of ICT in education has been widely implemented in the classrooms, hence this study is focused on studying the ICT trends in English as Foreign Language Classrooms and EFL students’ perspectives to the ICT integration. This study worked on descriptive research design by applying both quantitative and qualitative methods. Thirty-three undergraduate students in English Department of Education Faculty were involved, they were voluntary invited to fill out online questionnaire for this research purposes. The findings reveal that smartphone is the most preferable devise used by the students, they conveyed that Smartphone’s simplicity and portability are two main reasons for using it to support their learning experiences. In addition, the students aware that the integration of technology in English language teaching brings good values to improve their English skills. They also added that the teacher’s roles are interchangeable, no matter how advance the technology is, the teacher’s existence in the class is still highly required. However, the students said that teachers need to be creative in deploying the technology devices because the core point of utilizing technology devices in learning is not simply about using the technology as media, but it should empower the students to have better learning experiences and skills.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hadijah S. and Shalawati. (2019). ICT Integration Trends in EFL (English as Foreign Language) Classrooms.In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH, ISBN 978-989-758-464-0, pages 45-51. DOI: 10.5220/0009058600450051

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoseeh19,
author={Sitti Hadijah and Shalawati},
title={ICT Integration Trends in EFL (English as Foreign Language) Classrooms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH,},
year={2019},
pages={45-51},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009058600450051},
isbn={978-989-758-464-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH,
TI - ICT Integration Trends in EFL (English as Foreign Language) Classrooms
SN - 978-989-758-464-0
AU - Hadijah S.
AU - Shalawati.
PY - 2019
SP - 45
EP - 51
DO - 10.5220/0009058600450051