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Perceptions on the Use of ICT

This section contains 8 items which is planned for determining the teachers‟ perceptions towards the use of ICT in teaching English. A total of 6 out of the 8 questions are positive questions geared towards the use of ICT in teaching and the other 2 are negative ones. So, throughout the findings it is not surprising that the majority of the respondents had selected agree and strongly agree option from the Likert options to the positive questions and at the same time they had selected disagree and strongly disagree in the negative questions. So this proves that nearly all the respondents perceived that the use of ICT is important or very important in the teaching of the English language while the minority of them did not think so. As the importance of the computer technology in teaching has been well

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established by many researchers and educationalists throughout the world, it is therefore surprising to note that there were still a minority of respondents who upheld the opposite view. This is could be due to the respondents‟ lack of awareness and exposure towards the use of ICT.
The positive perceptions and awareness of the benefits of ICT in teaching may give an explanation as to why a large majority of the respondents perceived the use of computer technology as very important. The benefit which was agreed by the largest number of the respondents was that computer technology is important in the teaching of English. A very high percentage of the respondents also agreed to most of the other advantages brought by the use of computer technology in teaching and disagree to the two negative questions which stated the disadvantage of the use of ICT in teaching English. However, a few of the respondents that are about 13% in average had chosen the neutral option and this is may be due to the respondents‟ limited knowledge and skill about the computer technology. On top of that, there is also a lack of awareness and exposure towards the use of ICT that is why it seemed difficult for them to agree or disagree about the statements, so they tried to escape by choosing the neutral option.

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