THE INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES (THE ALBANIAN CASE)

Abstract

The main objective of teaching and learning through Information Technologies and Communication (ITC) is to develop the students ‘personality to live and adapt in this world and to prepare them for future professional activities. These challenges are present in the Albanian society as well and day by day the education system requires a proper integration of ITC-s in the teaching and learning process. Their influence is increasing day by day, especially during the last years and in teaching and learning a foreign language. In order to see how much appreciated and preferred are ITC-s from the teachers and the students we organized to experimental teaching classes, one using ITC-s and in the other not, with a number of 50 students. After that the students had to fill in a questionnaire that had 6 questions and helped us to understand better how they relate with ITC-s tools. Last but not least this study made possible to create a clearer picture of how ITC-s are integrated in the class and how teachers and students reacted in a non-traditional academic environment.