Investigating Technological Innovation in English Language Teaching: Iranian EFL Instructors in Focus

Abstract

Technological innovation creates new opportunities for teachers to practice new methods of language teaching. Innovative teachers try to find new way for language teaching to improve their quality of teaching. Having sufficient information from teachers’ technological innovation level is an effective predictor of language learners’ achievements. Therefore, current research sought to assess Iranian English language teachers’ level of technological innovation. The main data were collected from 375 EFL teachers compromising 125 university teachers, 125 high school teachers, and 125 institute teachers through a predesigned and validated questionnaire and interview. The results from the MANOVA indicated no significant differences among the high school, language institute, and university EFL teachers’ overall means of technological innovation. Findings also revealed that most of the teachers are almost at the same level and have some information about technological innovations and try to apply them in their process of teaching in the classroom. The findings could provide implications for EFL materials developers, policymakers, teachers, and syllabus designers.

Keywords

• computer-based technology
• mobile- based technology
• multimedia
• technological innovation