IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

EFFECT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AS PERCEIVED BY TEACHERS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

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Dr. BINDU T.V.

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Technology becomes part and parcel of everyday life especially in the teaching-learning process. The covid- 19 pandemic highlighted the necessity for teachers and students to have digital skills for effective online teaching-learning competently. Teachers face difficulty in handling online classes and they realised the importance of exploring technology to exploit, use, and apply digital technologies in all teaching-learning activities inside and outside the classroom. The perception of a teacher on the effect of digital technology in the class room plays an important role in the use of technology in the classroom transaction. This study aims to analyze the perception of teachers on the effect of digital technology in the teaching-learning of language at the secondary school level. The investigator developed a scale as a tool to measure the teacher's perception on the effect of digital technology in language classrooms. The sample comprised 223 secondary school language teachers in Kerala. The perception of teachers on the effect of digital technology was compared based on the language they are teaching ie; English, Hindi and Malayalam as categorical variable. Along with the descriptive statistics namely: mean and standard deviation, the test of significance of the difference between the means of two large independent samples was also used for data analysis 0%

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