A Survey of Efl Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of the Technology Use for Teaching During Teacher Training

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the EFL pre-service teacher's perception of the use of technology during teacher training. This is a survey study which is quantitative in nature. The primary data were collected and analysed consisting of a sample of 130 pre-service teachers majoring in English Education Department in private university at Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The instrument used in this research is a questionnaire constructed by Tondeur et al., (2016). Twenty-four questions were divided into 6 variables related to strategies in the inner circle of the SQD-models (Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence), such as role model, reflection, instructional design, collaboration, authentic experience, and feedback. The result of this study showed the highest statement results from several questions including sharing experiences and sharing challenges to the use of ICT in the classroom, received help to use ICT when developing educational materials, students helped each other to use ICT in an educational context, learn to use ICT in the classroom through the teaching practice, and received sufficient feedback about the use of ICT in my lessons. These findings have implications for teacher education programs and for researchers interested in pre-service teachers' perspectives on the use of technology during the teacher training process and what attitudes they should take going forward. The overall result of this study revealed the essential variables valued by students' perceptions were role model.