Exploring social media technologies for novice EFL school teachers to collaborate and communicate: A case in the Czech Republic

JINJIN, Lu, Han FEIFEI a Tomáš JANÍK. Exploring social media technologies for novice EFL school teachers to collaborate and communicate: A case in the Czech Republic. Frontiers in Psychology. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA, 2022, roč. 13, article number 1010686, s. 1-13. ISSN 1664-1078. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010686.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Exploring social media technologies for novice EFL school teachers to collaborate and communicate: A case in the Czech Republic

Autoři

JINJIN, Lu, Han FEIFEI a Tomáš JANÍK (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Frontiers in Psychology, LAUSANNE, FRONTIERS MEDIA, 2022, 1664-1078

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Stát vydavatele

Švýcarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 3.800

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14410/22:00128471

Organizační jednotka

Pedagogická fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010686

UT WoS

000874631600001

Klíčová slova anglicky

web 2.0 technology; novice teachers; EFL teaching and learning; multicultural learners; education reform

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

With an increasing number of international schools, traditional EFL teaching methods may not satisfy students’ needs. This study aims to investigate perceptions of social media technologies (e.g., Web 2.0) and willingness to adopt such technologies to collaborate and communicate in multicultural classrooms among novice EFL schoolteachers in the Czech Republic. The participants were 100 novice EFL schoolteachers in Prague and the South Moravian regions of the Czech Republic. The study used a mixed research method consisting of a survey (stage 1) and a semi-structured interview (stage 2). The survey examined the participants’ appraisal and concerns of using social media technologies to collaborate and to communicate as well as the level of willingness to use social media technologies. A hierarchical cluster analysis using participants’ responses regarding their attitudes and behavioural tendency towards using Web 2.0 social media technologies in language classrooms identified three clusters of teachers. The teachers who were most likely to adopt social Web 2.0 technologies were those who had the highest ratings on both appraisals and concerns regarding the use of social media in language classrooms. The results from the semi-structured interviews were consistent with those from the survey. Together, the results from the two stages demonstrated that most pre-service teachers favoured using Web 2.0 technology for collaboration and communication among colleagues and stakeholders in a broader community, but they displayed contrasting levels of appraisal of and concerns towards using social media technologies. Participants believed that this might be due to their different levels of ICT proficiency, workload, and working environment. The political and practical implications in K-12 education in the Czech context are also discussed.