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THE USE OF ICT IN ENGLISH CLASSES

INTRODUCTION

ICT) are present in everyday life, as part of everyday activities and changing ways of living of the people. Currently ICT is breaking barriers of time and place. And this also impacts the classrooms, in the development of teachinglearning process.
The technologies of information and communication technologies (

On a more global level, we must reflect on the "Information Society", named after the emergence of the Internet and access never seen the amount and content of information that anyone can get connected. (ICT in the classroom. LIC. Hector Valdez, Deputy Minister).

campaigns country-level training, ensure access, improved quality, efficiency and equity of Paraguayan education, therefore the mission of its policy is the incorporation of information and communication technologies to our Paraguayan educational system.
The Ministry of Education and Culture aims through

The technology offers enormous potential to improve

learning and teaching, as well as access to education, quality and management, and the provision of educational services. So, today education should not focus
or focus only on the transmission of knowledge, but you have to develop other skills. The Information Technology and Communication (ICT) represent a major challenge for

modern education not only in teaching but also in learning

Connected to technology

Factors that Prevent Teachers fom Using Technology


A number of early studies investigated why teachers do not use computers in their teaching (Rosen & Weil, 1995; Winnans & Brown, 1992; Dupagne & Krendl, 1992; Hadley & Sheingold, 1993). Not surprisingly they found a list of inhibitors:

o lack of teaching experience with ICT; o lack of on-site support for teachers using technology; o lack of help supervising children when using computers; o lack of ICT specialist teachers to teach students computer skills; o lack of computer availability; o lack of time required to successfully integrate technology into the curriculum; o lack of financial support.

Factors that Encourage Teachers to Use Technology


The factors that were found to be the most important to these teachers in their teaching were: making the lessons more interesting, easier, more fun for them and their pupils, more diverse, more motivating for the pupils and more enjoyable. Additional more personal factors were: improving presentation of materials, allowing greater access to computers for personal use, giving more power to the teacher in the school, giving the teacher more prestige, making the teachers administration more efficient and providing professional support through the Internet. Cox et al (1999)

The three major factors involved in these accomplished teachers success were:

o teacher motivation and commitment to their students learning and to their own development as teachers; o the support they experienced in their schools; o access to sufficient quantities of technology.

What is ICT
Information and Communication Technology: ICT

include theoretical conceptual tools, hardware and communication channels (ie, software and hardware)
allow the representation, storage, processing and retrieval of information in varied formats. Include communication technologies (television, radio, telephone, etc.) and information technology (computer, Internet, multimedia, interfaces, data transmission, etc..).

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