Investigating prospective ELT teachers' computer anxiety and their attitudes towards the implementation of ICT in English classrooms

As previous research indicates, the attitudes of prospective teachers toward technology integration in the classrooms have been the main focus of the studies that attempted to investigate the factors hindering the implementation of ICT in educational settings. However, the review of the current literature shows that the perceived anxiety regarding computers is usually overlooked as very few research has investigated the issue, and even fewer attempted to examine the issue in the field of foreign language teaching in the Turkish context. Therefore, following a mixed methods research design, the present study aimed to contribute to the existing literature by investigating these issues in the Turkish context. Attitudes Toward ICT Scale (Albirini, 2004) was adopted for the quantitative inquiry, while the qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews. A total of 75 senior prospective ELT teachers participated in the study. The analysis of the data revealed positive attitudes towards the implementation of ICT as well as a lower level of anxiety towards computers among Turkish prospective ELT teachers.