The Development of English Teachers' TPACK: The Case of Teaching English to Young Learners in Primary schools

Abstract

Despite nowadays, the integration of technology is widespread; many teachers still find challenges and difficulties to design their lesson with ICT integration as learning tools due to lack of time availability, lack of knowledge, and lack of facilities. Sufficient knowledge and ability to design an effective lesson plan will affect the success or failure of teaching g ICT integration. With this in mind, this study presents a descriptive case study that described how two primary teachers collaborate and present their teaching to the fourth-grade classroom through the framework of technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK). Thus, the observations, interview, and video-recorded were taken to dig a set of knowledge underpinned teachers' decisions when design and teach the lesson using technology. The result found that teachers' awareness to develop their professional development in designing an effective lesson plan is compulsorily needed to support the success of rich-technology environment in teaching English to young learners.