| Abstract: |
This study has dual aim of investigating the language teachers’ opinions on the utilisation of technology and examining the availability of institutional technology support infrastructure for teaching languages in the University of Nigeria. Specifically, the study seeks to 1. Determine the language teachers’ awareness of the types of technologies available for language teaching, 2, examine the extent of language teachers’ access to available technology, 3, identify the challenges teachers face in their use of technology in language teaching, 4, investigate the extent of production and distribution of technology-based language resource materials, and 5, find out the extent of institutional support technology infrastructure available for language teaching. In order to achieve the stated objectives, a 4-point Likert types of questionnaire was administered and subsequently, oral interview was used to the respondents to elicit information. The participants were sixty in number; forty language lecturers, and twenty others drawn from the Computer unit of vocational and Teacher Education (VTE) department, Management Information Science (MIS), CUDIMAC, and information Technology (IT)/Innovative Centre, all of the university of Nigeria, Nsukka. The data collected from questionnaire were subjected to statistical analysis of: Mean, standard deviation and ANOVA. The interview was used to confirm the results obtained from the questionnaire. The findings of the study are; 1, shows that the language teachers’ are not aware of the technology available for language teaching and hence, rarely use it. 2. the language teachers have poor access to available technology. 3. Language teachers have a lot of challenges in the use of technology in teaching. 4. Language teachers have a lot of challenges in the use of technology in language teaching. 5. the institutional support technology structures are required to be available for language teaching. |
EBONYI JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
