English Teachers’ Online Literacy Practice In Northern Peninsular Malaysia
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2015-09
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A. PARNABAS, JULINAMARY
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The advancement in ICT has rapidly transformed the work culture and ESL teachers cannot escape from the fact that many classrooms at present are technologically supported and web-connected. This mixed-methods study aimed to examine the ESL teachers’ Internet use in and outside the classroom, extent of Internet integration for classroom instruction and the levels of concern in integrating the Internet for classroom teaching from a sociocultural perspective. In this research, 330 ESL teachers teaching in Penang and Perak took part. The Stages of Concerns Questionnaire was administered and the findings were further explored with nine respondents who volunteered for the semi-structure interview. The result showed that 53.64% of the ESL teachers integrate the Internet to teach receptive skills, productive skills, grammar, literature, oral test and public examination classes. The respondents have high levels of concerns, which is above 3.5 out of 5 in all the stages in CBAM. Six aspects, namely, plagiarism, class control, facilities, support, time and public exams and syllabus emerged in the qualitative data. The findings of the study have implications for English teachers as well as educators in Malaysia.
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English Teachers’ Online Literacy Practice , In Northern Peninsular Malaysia