An Investigation into the Implementation of Call in Government Colleges of District Hyderabad: A Study on English Teachers’ Perceptions

Abstract

In the modern world technology has prevailed and now it is unstoppable to prevail more in the near future. As technology effected in every walk of life so does in education. Therefore, education is continuously transforming in all around the world through electronical resources and with the help of technological gadgets, tools, and other devices, the spread of has become easy enough that even lay men have some sort of comprehension to understand some English. Education is being flourished in well to do countries around the world by implementing computers in their education system. The technological or electronic based tool CALL known Computer Assisted Language Learning is not new in the world but in Pakistan to some extent it is. Even though many local researchers have already done much work dealing CALL and its aspects even then there is a huge vacuum to work on and make educational authorities aware about the end results of integrating technology if applied in our education system particularly in Higher Secondary Education. However, according to education policy 2017 by Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training Government of Pakistan, it is required to include Information Communication Technology to meet the needs of variety of learners through information technology because the explosion of information is increasing a large scale therefore it is needed to get access of knowledge and make learning easy. Moreover, via increasing the access of technology the cost of education could come down and could meet the challenges of illiteracy and poverty. In this connection, the aim of the study is to investigate the perceptions of English teacher about the application and obstacles to the implementation of CALL and the related strategies which may be adopted to inculcate by inspecting the current capacity of the use of Computer Assisted Language Learning in the government colleges of Hyderabad Division. Concerning this, the study was conducted at government Boys and Girls colleges of Hyderabad by collecting data from English teachers through quantitative survey questionnaire. This research work finally analyzes that majority of the teachers are in favor to have change in education and implementing technology sure to be fruitful to bring out the potential of the students. This way learners will be well equipped to survive in the society positively and constructively.

Keywords:Computer, Perception, Implementation, Higher Secondary Education, Communication, Technology, Education system, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-8-05

Publication date: April 30^th 2021