Professors’ attitudes, competence and frequency of use with regard to information and communication technologies in the teaching of English at the Linguistics and Languages Department of Universidad Mayor de San Andres

Abstract

This study was carried out with the purpose of researching the professors’ attitudes toward the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), professors’ self-perceptions about their current level of ICT competence and frequency of use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the teaching of English at the Linguistics and languages Department of Universidad Mayor de San Andres. This descriptive study with a non-experimental research design of trans–sectional type, allowed knowing the favorable or unfavorable attitudes of English professors toward the use of information and communication technologies, the professor’ self-perceptions about their current level of ICT competence and the frequency of ICT use in the teaching of English at the Linguistics and Languages Department of Universidad Mayor de San Andres. The population and sampling are made up of all the English professors that teach at the Linguistics and Languages Department and Centro de Enseñanza y Traducción de Inglés (CETI) of Universidad Mayor de San Andres. In order to collect the data about the English professors’ attitudes, competence and frequency of use with regard to information and communication technologies a questionnaire was used as main instrument to obtain the required information. The results obtained point out that the English professors at Linguistics and Languages Department of Universidad Mayor de San Andres have a favorable attitude towards the use of information and communication technologies in the teaching of English. In relation to current level of ICT competence and the frequency of ICT use, the achieved results showed that professors have a moderate competence in the use of information of communication technologies and that they use sometimes those technologies in the teaching of English at the Linguistics and languages Department of Universidad Mayor de San Andres.