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2001-07-01

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The rise and spread of information technology (IT) is widely recognized. However, whether ELT faculty members at leading state universities in Bangkok and their campuses in the vicinity of Bangkok have adopted IT in their teaching has never been addressed. The purposes of this study were to investigate these ELT lecturers' use of IT and to explore their opinions on the role of IT and the computer-related tasks they considered necessary in the new millennium. A sample of 150 lecturers from six leading universities in Bangkok participated in the study. The research instrument was a questionnaire for eliciting the faculty members' use of CAI or CALL, their opinions on the role of IT, and their tasks in the new millennium. It was found that more than half of the ELT lecturers (51.33%) had no experience in using computers in their teaching. However, the vast majority of these lecturers (94.66%) agreed that IT should play a positive role in ELT. As regards writing, about half of the lecturers were undecided if IT would help alleviate the burden of correcting / marking student writing. Although most of the lecturers (93.33%) generally agreed that they had to familiarize themselves with IT, about half (46.66%) were undecided if they had to rely on IT for quality teaching. Most of the lecturers also indicated that they had to use the Internet as well as to change their teaching styles to fit the new environment.

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10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.31.1.5

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Banpho, Phan (2001) "University ELT Faculty's Use of IT, Their Opinions on the Roles of IT and the Promising Tasks," PASAA: Vol. 31: Iss. 1, Article 5.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.31.1.5
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol31/iss1/5

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