Investigating Iraqi EFL Teachers Attitudes Towards the Use of the Internet in Language Teaching: A Case Study at Baghdad and Wassit Universities
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The present study aims at investigating Iraqi EFL teachers’ attitude towards the use of the Internet in language teaching .The sample involved includes (40) Iraqi EFL teachers : (25 ) teachers teaching at the Dept. of English , College of Education , University of Baghdad for the academic year (2011-2012) and (15) teachers at the Dept. of English , College of Education for human sciences , Wassit University . For the purpose of data collection , a questionnaire was developed and distributed to the study sample . Surprisingly , it has been found that most of the participants ( 80 % ) had rarely used the Internet for instructional purposes in their classes . Furthermore , results have shown that teachers don’t encourage their students to use the Internet , and (73.4 % ) of them agree that they need special training on how to integrate the Internet in language teaching .Downloads
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