Use of technology in Bangladeshi secondary school classrooms: a study on its efficiency

Abstract

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavor within business and governance. Nowadays language teachers are using different audio visual aids to facilitate teaching process. Along with the textbook, language teachers are likely to use related pictures, power point, audio, videos and so on in the language classroom. The aim of this research is to investigate how technology can help to improve student’s language learning in the context of secondary schools in Dhaka city. Firstly, it explores the relevant materials from the existing literature on the historical development of ICTs that helps to determine the significance of the theory in the present oral practice that takes place in the context of a secondary school. After that, it designs the research methods by combining both qualitative and quantitative techniques in order to find the answers of the research questions. Then it provides an elaboration of the research findings based on collected data from the students’ and teachers’ survey, teachers’ interviews, focused group discussion and observation data. Finally, it reports on the brief summary of this study with the conclusive comments based on the findings.