Comparing the Internet Usage of Pre-service Language Teachers With Teachers of Other Subjects: Distance Learning vs. On-Campus Learning

Teachers play a crucial role in helping individuals gain adequate Internet competency, which requires teachers themselves to be Internet-literate. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Internet use of the distance and on-campus pre-service teachers of language and other disciplines by multiple parameters. A total of 789 teacher candidates participated in this survey. The findings show that the candidate teachers in on-campus and distance-learning programs have an average level of Internet usage adequacy and that the younger candidate teachers and those in higher classes use the Internet more frequently. Pre-service foreign language teachers have been found to have a moderate level of Internet usage frequency, adequacy and technology ownership in comparison with the other preservice teacher groups.

• Autores: Firat, Mehmet; Serpil, Harun
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66906
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66906; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67934/
• Palabra clave: 37 Educación / Education; 8 Literatura y retórica / Literature; Internet in education; open and distance education; pre-service language teachers; educación abierta y a distancia; Internet en la educación; profesores de idiomas en formación
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional