Impact of ICT Integration in English10 through the GFS Project

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Over the last two decades, the rapid growth of Information and Communications Technology or more commonly called ICT has become one of the most important topics discussed by the scholars in education. No doubt, there is no visionary educational institution that is not taking the steps forward towards the evolution of their curricula to integrate ICT. This is due to the capability of this technology in providing dynamic and proactive teaching and learning environment. In line with the current digital era, teachers are required to integrate ICT in their daily teaching and replace their traditional methods with modern tools and facilities. The current investigation will try to examine if this ICT integration will create a positive impact on the students' performance in English 10.

METHODS

This research is a quantitative one that made use of a pre-test and post-test, as well as, a survey questionnaire as research tools. It is quasi-experimental in design which made use of two sets of classes. A purposive sampling method was used to select the control group and the experimental group -each of which is composed of 44 students each,and whose level of performance in English 10 is at the same level at the start of the experiment.

RESULTS

Results revealed that at the beginning of the experiment, both the experimental and the control group manifested a fair level of performance as indicative of their pretest. However, after one quarter and ICT integration was implemented in the experimental group, their post-test showed that the experimental class achieved a very good academic performance while the control group registered a good performance. At a closer look, it was found out that the experimental class registered a significant difference in their posttest compared to their posttest. Furthermore, through the survey questionnaire administered to the experimental class, it was assessed that the students accept that ICT integration is preferred in their classroom.

DISCUSSIONS

The result of this investigation revealed that ICT integration has a positive impact on the performance of the students in English 10. Moreover, this strategy is also much preferred by the students.