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 Volume 9, Issue 7 (July 2022), Pages: 16-23

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 Original Research Paper

Attitudes and acceptance of information and communication technology (ICT) among urban and rural teachers in teaching and facilitation

 Author(s): Tamilmullai Thannimalai 1, Kartheges Ponniah 1, *, F. M. Nawastheen 2, Franklin Thambi Jose 1, Subahshini Jaiseelan 3

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Languages and Communication, Sultan Idris Education University, Tanjung Malim, Malaysia
 2Faculty of Education, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka
 3Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2955-0607

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.07.003

 Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to find out the attitudes and acceptance of information and communication technology (ICT) among urban and rural teachers in Teaching and Facilitation (TnF). The use of ICT helps in improving the effectiveness of all areas including education. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) introduced by Fred Davis was used to identify the relationship between teacher attitudes and differences in ICT acceptance between urban and rural areas teachers’ behavior in TnF. This was to determine the actual influencing factors among the Tamil language teachers on the use of information and communication technology in Tamil language TnF. There are several other works carried out in this field including computer teaching and learning, challenges of ICT, teachers' perceptions of ICT, and many more, but the present study is based among urban and rural teachers of Malaysia. Other works done in this field do not focus on students and teachers of Tamil schools. This study is a quantitative study involving a questionnaire. The study involved 96 Tamil schools in the state of Selangor and a total of 260 Tamil language teachers participated in this study. 167 urban schools and 93 rural schools were involved in this study. Data obtained through questionnaires were evaluated using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, hence documented in chronology relevant to the objectives of the study. The findings of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between teachers in urban and rural areas in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Tamil language TnF. Through this study, a strong culture of ICT use is applied in the Tamil language TnF process in urban and rural SJK (T) which can be practiced by various stakeholders.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Tamil school, ICT, Technology acceptance model, Acceptance, Teaching and facilitation

 Article History: Received 21 January 2022, Received in revised form 7 April 2022, Accepted 13 April 2022

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Thannimalai T, Ponniah K, and Nawastheen FM et al. (2022). Attitudes and acceptance of information and communication technology (ICT) among urban and rural teachers in teaching and facilitation. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(7): 16-23

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