TECHNOPHOBIA & LANGUAGE TEACHERS: WHAT SHOULD BE AFRAID OF?

Rahman Hakim

Abstract


The article discusses the phenomena that still exist even in the era of industrial revolution 4.0., among the language teachers. It investigates the basic understanding of theories related to computer anxiety or technophobia from several references of books, journals, and websites. The aim of the research tends to figure out the characteristics of the language teachers that could be considered as having problems with the computer anxiety or technophobia, any standard of competence in using technology regarding to the language teacher professional development. The significance of the research is to give more contributions to the CALL teacher education of the subject the writer concerned about in the university especially in helping the language teachers.

 

Keywords: technophobia, language teachers, industrial revolution 4.0


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