Foreign Language Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Integrated Technology

Authors

  • Jesus Garcia Laborda Universidad de Alcalá, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
  • Valeska Concha Diaz Universidad de Valencia, 46010 València,Valencia, Spain
  • Eva Jechimer Ramírez Universidad de Alcalá, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i23.18797

Keywords:

technology, blogs, social media, teacher education, bilingual education.

Abstract


The COVID-19 pandemic worldwide evidenced the need to revise and strengthen the current perspective of the role of technology in non-technology-based classes. The current situation requires the revision of practices and basic knowledge of computer literacy and use. Traditionally, technology in the process of language learning has been considered anecdotical. As a result, many teachers do not have the necessary skills to implement proper technology-supported classes. Being that the case at Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), we looked at the students’ needs in integrating a number of different applications in the classroom in order to provide them with additional technological skills. Twenty-two pre-service teachers enrolled in the College of Education prepared a whole package of applications for computer and mobile phones by working cooperatively. This paper looks at their attitudes towards technology learning and implementation. A Likert-scale questionnaire was developed to assess their attitudes. Results indicated that students do not evidence as much interest as expected despite their limited ability to implement the package.

Author Biographies

Jesus Garcia Laborda, Universidad de Alcalá, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Facultad de Educación & Instituto Franklin

Valeska Concha Diaz, Universidad de Valencia, 46010 València,Valencia, Spain

Department: Modern Philology.

Eva Jechimer Ramírez, Universidad de Alcalá, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Department of Modern Philology

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Published

2020-12-11

How to Cite

Garcia Laborda, J., Concha Diaz, V., & Jechimer Ramírez, E. (2020). Foreign Language Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Integrated Technology. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(23), pp. 85–94. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i23.18797

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