The Role of EFL TPACK in Language Teachers’ ICT Use in Instruction

The present study investigated the role of Technological and Pedagogical Content Knowledge of language teachers in their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in language classes. 162 language teachers participated. The level of participants’ TPACK was assessed by TPACK-deep scale with four dimensions including design, exertion, ethics, and performance. The use of different types of technological affordances in teaching English as a foreign language was also measured by ICT-use rating scale. The results of correlation revealed significant and positive correlations between ICT use in language classes and EFL TPACK in general and its four components including design (r=.485, p .01), exertion (r=.514, p .01), ethics (r=.352, p 0.01), performance (r=.364, p .01). Further, the result of multiple regressions revealed that EFL TPACK is a signficant predictor of ICT use and can predict more than 26% of its variance.