A study on the attitudes of ELT teachers toward computer assisted language learning

This study is an attempt to identify the attitudes of English language teachers toward Computer Assisted Language Learning in the School of Foreign Languages at a private university. A descriptive research design was used to answer the research questions. Forty-two English language teachers working in School of Foreign Languages at Zirve University participated in the study. A questionnaire developed by Christensen and Knezek (1998) was used as a data collection instrument. The questionnaire is composed of questions, which correspond to 5 different subgroups such as enthusiasm, anxiety, productivity improvement, avoidance and e-mail use for classroom learning. According to the results of the study, the findings asserted that teachers have less negative attitudes toward Computer Assisted Language Learning when compared to positive attitudes, which have the majority in overall aspect. Those findings were thoroughly discussed in the light of the current literature. Keywords: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Teacher attitudes; Technology