Secondary School Teachers' Knowledge and Utilization of ICT in English Language Instruction

Abstract

Teaching and learning have gone beyond the teacher standing in front of a group of students disseminating information to them without the students' adequate participation. ICT has the potential to accelerate, enrich and deepen skills of teachers to motivate and engage students in learning. The knowledge about and utilization of ICT tools can indeed assist students' in acquiring English language competence as well as enhance the quality of their learning experience. This paper intends to examine the ICT knowledge of secondary school teachers of English language in Minna metropolis. It will also examine how or to what extent they can utilize ICT in their language instruction. A questionnaire with a four-point scale: strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree was used to elicit valid responses from the 40 teachers of English used for the study. The result shows that some of the teachers are computer literature but their major constraints is lack of ICT infrastructural facilities. The data are collected, discussed and recommendation proffered.