ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE TEACHING –LEARNING PROCESS Case of 1ST Year EFL Students at the University of Tlemcen
Baiche Ali, Ben Hammou Wahiba, Benheddi Soumia
كلية الآداب واللغات-جامعة أبو بكر بلقايد - تلمسان · الجزائر
The 21ST century is the age of development and innovation; it is the age ofmodern technology. Technology is used in every aspect of society; it has become anintegral part of our lives. It is used to facilitate our lives and in the domain ofeducation it can be is used to simplify and improve the quality of teaching andlearning. Thus no one can deny the importance and the benefits of technology in theclassroom more specifically the EFL classroom. The purpose of this study is highlightthe main impact of using technology in the EFL classroom as well as the role of theteacher in the process and how he can manage to use it effectively and correctly forthe purpose of enhancing the quality of learning. Also this work aims at finding outhow both teachers and learners view technology and how they feel about using it. Inthis research work a case study was made in the Department of English at theUniversity of Tlemcen with 1ST year EFL students and teachers from the staff as asample population. 25 students and 10 teachers have contributed in this work. Theresearch tools consist of two questionnaires, one for the students and another for theteachers. The findings of this study are meant to improve the EFL teaching andlearning via technology. The result of the investigation show that there are manyadvantages of technology use in the EFL classroom and that both teachers andlearners support the idea of using it. Also teachers are aware of the importance oftechnology as a means of instruction and they favor its use, however they face someobstacles in the process such as the lack of technological materials and training.