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An Analysis of Teachers’ Attitude and Teaching
Practice toward ICT Use in English Language
Teaching
Khoirunnisa Isnani
1,
, Agus Widyantoro
2
khoirunnisaisnani.kn2@gmail.com, agus_widyantoro@uny.ac.id
UniversitasNegeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Abstract. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the current issue in this digital era,
particularly regarding English language teaching. Then, attitude as the force of teachers’ behavior to use
ICT in teaching becomes a crucial case. However, a similar study is quite scarce in Indonesian ELT
context. This survey study aimed to describe the English teachers' attitude towards ICT use and the
frequency of using ICT in their teaching practices. This study also aimed at finding out the correlation
between two variables. The participants of this study were 322 English teachers of Junior high schools in
Yogyakarta provinces, Indonesia. The questionnaires paper-based were distributed as the instrument for
data collection. The research data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS
program version 24. The results revealed that the teachers had a positive attitude towards the use of ICT
by an overall mean score of 3.32. In addition, the total mean score of the frequency of ICT use was 2.44,
which means the teachers rarely used ICT in English teaching. Besides, the correlation results showed
that there is a significant positive relation between English teachers’ attitude and frequency of ICT use
by Pearson Correlation value 0.386.Although the teachers’ attitude relates to their ICT use is positive,
there may be other factors influencing teachers’ frequency of ICT use instead of attitude.
Keywords: EFL Teacher, English Instruction, Technology
1 Introduction
In recent years, technological development is often involved with educational aspects,
including English language teaching, which offers potential contributions. The use of ICT
(Information and Communication Technology) in English instructions refers to computer-
and-internet-based-technology that is utilized by the teacher and students to assist English
language teaching and learning[1]. In the 1950s and 1960s, the language laboratory has used
as the first technology entered the in English teaching and learning process[2]. It came with
the audio-lingual method to drill students’ pronunciation using the utterances of native
speakers[3]. Furthermore, ICT has various advantages that help English teachers in finding
and delivering authentic materials from rich sources[4][5]. Also, ICT provides multiple
teaching and learning activities to enhance students’ language skills[6][7]. Furthermore, ICT
offers students’ communicative skills[8][9]. And it creates an exciting language exercise[10].
Besides, Azmi[11]reported that the use of ICT in the EFL classroom encourages learning
autonomously, increases students’ learning motivation, and also supports their English
proficiency improvement. Therefore, the teacher, as a critical role in English language
instructions, is demanded to make use of ICT. The use of ICT has a positive opportunity to
provide a more productive English learning environment with various and attractive media
that are technologically based.
ICE 2019, September 28-30, Purwokerto, Indonesia
Copyright © 2020 EAI
DOI 10.4108/eai.28-9-2019.2291002