Investigating the information technology courses for pre-service and in-service English teachers in Hong Kong: A case study

Investigating the information technology courses for pre-service and in-service English teachers in Hong Kong: A case study

• Yang, Chi Cheung Ruby The Hong Kong Institute of Education

PROFILE: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching

Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers English Teacher Education Information Technology Courses

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper aims to find out the views of 26 pre-service and 8 in-service English teachers in Hong Kong about the information technology courses in their teacher education programmes. The findings of the study show that while both software applications and technology integration in teaching are highlighted in the course outline, the instructor focused more on the application aspect, with the technology integration being less emphasised. Another important finding is that PowerPoint was still the most commonly used application in teaching and the involved pre-service and in-service teachers usually just simply used different computer applications as alternatives to traditional teaching resources. This may reflect the fact that the Information technology courses are not adequate to prepare teachers to teach with it.
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• English

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2015-11-05