KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED FOR EFL TEACHERS TO INTEGRATE ICT IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

Increasingly, Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are being used in education and in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction because of their enormous benefits. The application of ICTs in classroom instruction has presented changes to the teacher’s role in classes, which in turn requires the teacher to develop new sets of knowledge and skills. In response to this, researchers have come up with long lists of teachers’ knowledge and skills. Yet, these long lists were not based on sound theoretical frameworks. This paper argues that the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge –TPACK (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) framework could be utilised to provide theoretical foundations to research on the teachers’ knowledge and skills, and then provides a revised list of knowledge and skills that an EFL teacher needs to have to effectively integrate ICT in classroom instruction in light of the TPACK framework.