Barriers Teachers Face in Integrating ICT During English Lessons: A Case Study

Kumutha Raman

84 citations0/0 files storedMalaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Education and Technology Integration English Language Learning and Teaching Digital literacy in education

Abstract

The government has assured all Malaysians that no one; both in rural and urban areas; would be deprived of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development. This calls for a need for teachers nationwide to make necessary adjustments to the teaching and learning process. This paper takes a closer look at the barriers faced by teachers in integrating ICT tools in teaching the English language in the classrooms. This study aimed at determining the reasons teachers do not use ICT in the classrooms, even though they are provided with sufficient technical supports. A total of twelve English teachers from an Independent Chinese secondary school were interviewed and their views were analysed through thematic content analysis. The findings revealed that although the school was highly resourced with ICT tools and facilities, barriers such as teachers’ hesitancy in integrating ICT, amount of workload, lack of time, teaching experience and age and lack of ICT skills were impeding the teachers to incorporate ICT in their teaching. Thus, sufficient training, motivation, encouragement, flexible time and task arrangement for teachers are necessary in order to provide opportunities for them to incorporate ICT resources into their teaching. Future research could focus on more effective ways to overcome the barriers of ICT integration in education.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 84 citations exist upstream.

References

2007Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches, 2nd ed.2005Teachers’ attitudes toward information and communication technologies: the case of Syrian EFL teachers 2002What factors facilitate teacher skill, teacher morale, and perceived student learning in technology-using classrooms?2004A review of the research literature on barriers to the uptake of ICT by teachers.2001Teacher Adoption of Technology: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective 2008A Study of Teacher Perceptions of Instructional Technology Integration in the Classroom 2010Teacher Factors Influencing Classroom Use of ICT in Sub-Saharan Africa 2003Working with ICT

Cited by

2020ICT Integration in Developing Competence for Pre- Service Mathematics Teachers: A Case Study from Six Universities in Vietnam 2023Factors Affecting English Language Teachers’ Behavioral Intentions to Teach Online under the Pandemic Normalization of COVID-19 in China 2018A Conceptual Model to Evaluate Virtual Learning Environment among Malaysian Teachers

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.