EFL teacher educators' attitudes towards call: Case of Turkish state universities

Use of technology, especially use of computers, in language education has been very popular recently. This study aimed at identifying teacher educators? attitudes towards use of CALL(Computer Assisted Language Learning) and revealing their barriers (if any) to the use of CALL or computer technologies in their teaching in state universities in Turkey. This study was carried out with 80 teacher educators from English Language Teaching departments of 13 Turkish state universities.Data for this study were collected through questionnaires which were used to find out the participants? attitudes and interviews which were used to identify the participants? barriers to the use of CALL. 6 participants for the interviews were chosen from Çukurova University according to their attitude points. The relationship between the gender and the attitudes towards computers was investigated as well as the relationship between age and attitudes towards the use of CALL.The data from the questionnaires were analyzed through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). The interview data were analyzed through content analysis.The results indicated that teacher educators had such barriers as lack of hardware, lack of time, technical and administrative support and people?s opinions or ideas although they had strong positive attitudes towards the use of CALL in their instruction. A statistically significant difference between the gender and the teacher educators? attitudes towards the use of CALL could not be found. The relationship between teacher educators? ages and their attitudes towards CALL was not statistically different either.Keywords: CALL, Attitudes, EFL teacher education.